A fading muscle Mary and a closeted twink must join forces to save the gay community from a worse-than-deadly virus turning everyone straight in Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athané's infectiously giddy Cannes midnighter.
By Guy Lodge
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Jim Queen ©2025 Bobbypills Umedia “Jim Queen” is a film that very much sells itself (or very much does not, depending on the potential viewer) on its one-line elevator pitch. A cartoon about two gay men — one a vapid, brawny influencer, the other a shy, closeted slip of a thing — drawn together to fight Heterosis, a conversion virus launched by the conservative right on an unsuspecting queer community: You’re either in or you’re out, so to speak, and if you think that very premise sounds too silly to function, then nothing in French duo Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athané’s dizzy, pastel-drenched satire is going to convince you otherwise. If the idea raises a chuckle, however, then so will much else in “Jim Queen”: a short, concentrated barrage of jokes good, bad and both, fired with enough energy and gee to keep a spirit of hilarity afloat throughout.
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