The situation is a little obvious and predictable, and the plugged-in, silly details don’t help. The first half of the movie consists of the friends playing “remember when” in order to establish the relationship and clarify that they are definitely not gay, a mix-up the bookie exploits in a not-so-funny gay-bashing session. The funniest part of the film is Chi Chi Navarro (see, it’s funny already) and John Del Regno’s performances as Aunt Alice and Uncle Robert. But the two elderly folks are only in the film for a few seconds and then we’re back to the clichéd boys will be boys plotline. Bad Mofos is not a bad short film by any means. Director Kevin Brinn has created something that looks good and sounds good, but the film is not original by any means. These kinds of get-rich-quick-gone-wrong plots seem to saturate short films and no matter what the details – curling vs. boxing, big black bookie vs. big Hispanic bookie, Aunt’s store vs. any other small business – these films are all going to look the same.
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