“Sex is kinda like pizza. When it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.”

Andie’s rating: I bet I could make murder sound sexual

Andie’s review: Okay, so Threesome isn’t exactly for everybody. The first time I saw it was in eighth grade with my two friends Rachel and Leah. From first viewing, I loved this movie. I thought it made some awesome points and I just really liked it.

Rachel and Leah, on the other hand, were completely traumatized by the experience. I think they have yet to fully recover. And so, being the only one who liked it, I of course had to keep my mouth shut for fear of being thought a weirdo. But now I stand firm in my liking of this movie and I want to tell you about it.

The premise is that Eddie (Josh Charles) transfers to college and starts living with Stuart (Stephen Baldwin). They become friends but all their bliss is upheaved one day by the arrival of Alex (Lara Flynn Boyle, one of my favorite actresses). For awhile, none of them get along. But soon they become very close friends. It turns into a typical love triangle with a twist. Stuart wants to jump Alex’s bones, Alex has the hots for Eddie, but Eddie might be gay. He’s not sure yet.

What all this amounts to is a movie that truly explores the relationship between men and women. I have always thought I was a lot like Alex and my freshman year of college, I met two guys that are a lot like Stuart and Eddie. I never had sex with either one of them, but I can totally relate with having this intense animal attraction to one guy and having this awesome mental/emotional relationship with the other one.

For these characters, this relationship brings them into some sexual exploration that can be a very scary and exciting thing. There’s really good development of Eddie’s coming to terms about being gay and maybe being attracted to his friend Stuart.

There’s also this great scene where Alex finds Eddie in the library and wants him to read to her because she likes to hear guys say big words (I can totally relate. One time my friend Micah totally turned me on by using the word “surreptitiously”). It’s great because Alex is getting all hot and bothered in the middle of the library. Hee hee.

Overall, I just think this is a very entertaining and funny movie that deals with some very serious topics. It might offend some people but those people just have their heads in the sand and they suck. I highly recommend it to anyone who is mature enough to handle it.

Intermission!

• Alex’s play is a lesbian version of Oedipus Rex, which I find incredibly amusing.
• When Stuart brings his little blonde friend over for dinner, I love the way Eddie and Alex pick her apart. I can totally relate and I am a little ashamed to admit it, but I’m totally like that to ditzy blondes.