KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

nnenok When I decided to watch this movie, I was in the mood for some stupid American jackass film and Humpday, with its title and the poster picture appeared spot on. I was in for an unexpected (but very pleasing) surprise. This movie is actually slow, indie and, put simply, nice. It strips off all the douchebagy nonsense someone would expect out of a movie where two straight dudes decide to get down on each other and instead offers talks, discussions and ideas on what brings someone to get to this idea and to go through (or not) with it.Apart from this, all the three leads are absolutely great. I'm pretty sure more than half of the movie is improvised, you can literally feel the nervousness and tension and chemistry among the cast, and I wish I could have a relationship like the one between Ben and Anna.

Dale Haufrect Lynn Shelton has written and directed a comedic pleasure with "Humpday". It is delightfully funny and incredibly genuine throughout. It is a serious comedy with sexual overtones that provoke thought and reason in the inquisitive movie fans. It is the story of two male friends in their 30 somethings who are reunited in a brief interlude that is interlaced with drugs, alcohol and very believable conversation. it is the incredibly believable conversations that are most intriguing. The talents of Lynn Shelton sparkle in the dialog that she has put to pen. She also has a delightful role in this picture that I can highly recommend to mature audiences.

valis1949 Two close friends (Ben, played by Mark Duplass, and Andrew, played by Joshua Leonard) grapple with the following dilemma. Can two straight men engage in gay sex, film it, and hope to win a prize at The HUMP! annual film festival in Seattle, Washington? HUMPDAY is a sly and witty examination of sexual attitudes which, at times, is as disconcerting as it is nearly hilarious. Ben is married, and he and his wife are about to start a family, while Andrew is a Free Spirit who sees himself as kind of a marginal player on the international art scene. One night at a party in a Free Love commune, the two men drunkenly come up with a possible brand-new approach to the Genre of Pornography. Why not have two straight men do a gay porn flic. This becomes the odd and unsettling conundrum for the movie. Is it possible for two straight men to engage in gay sex, or would the act itself preclude that they were gay at the outset? The viewer watches as Ben and Andrew squirm with the unstated (and frightening) query, am I gay, or closer truth, just exactly how straight am I? Maybe the real message of the film is that as much as we feel that we have completely settled on our sexual identity, the true nature of sex might be much more fluid. Personal sexual attitudes are not really laws which are set in stone, but maybe they are just guidelines which are subject to change and reinvention as circumstances change. The film doesn't resolve the issue, but it certainly presents a dizzying collection of cringe inducing questions which highlight this quandary. HUMPDAY could be seen as a possible companion piece to the wonderfully disquieting film, CHUCK AND BUCK.

MisterWhiplash People have been throwing around the term 'Mumblecore' to describe a recent spat of movies by the likes of Lynn Shelton, Kelly Reichart, and the Duplass brothers (one of whom, Mark, acts in this movie) and some throw it around like it's a bad thing. While I've yet to see the bulk of the films as part of this quasi-movement of completely improvised-dialog films (one I have seen, Wendy and Lucy, is terrific), I should point out about a concurrent trend in television. Rest assured, some of the best comedy shows on TV right now- namely The Office and especially Curb Your Enthusiasm- go along on the beat of just having a rough outline, albeit a firm structure, to go with the story, and letting the actors take the scene where it needs to go. And as comedy, it's important that it's funny, and rest assured Humpday is funny as f*** (pun intended), but it also has to have a level of reality that you can just feel right away. Humpday has that, and it's refreshing.It's a simple premise, though anything but in its execution of human interaction: two old friends, Ben and Andrew, meet again after Andrew's been away with his art-type friends for a while, and one night when Ben is over at Andrew's friends party a sort-of dare is made by Ben, that he and Andrew will do a gay porno together for an upcoming porno movie festival called Humpday. Aside from the fact that the two men are heterosexual, Ben is married to a nice but slightly rigid Anna, who wants to get knocked up sooner rather than later. From there the film is a series of awkward scenes- some more than others, some leading up to it in that cringe-worthy style that, if hooked into the film, will have you laughing and uncomfortable- that leads to that wonderful climax at the hotel room.There are detractors for both the movement of mumblecore in general and for the film; some critics and audiences find the whole premise, as it plays out, unbelievable. Yet, perhaps that's part of Shelton's point: following these characters in their (ill)logical progression is part of what makes it satirical on the nature of men and relationships and friendship, but importantly as well it's natural-dialog style is perfect for how people would react to the situations. And for those who really admire improvisational comedy, those awkward little moments and beats taken or things truly surprisingly said, Duplass and Joshua Leonard knock it out of the park. They're perceptive to how really close friends who do love each other- as 'friends' mind you- would react when putting themselves, in a kind of masculine sense of who they are, into this situation. On top of this there is also some really good work from Alycia Delmore as Ben's wife, who reveals in maybe the best scene of the film (when she gives her approval with a caveat) how she views Ben's free-will in their marriage. In short, for me, Humpday is real and raw without losing for a second how to make a scene uproarious. It shares the cringe-comedy of the genius 'Curb' while also eschewing the more trying raunch of Apatow productions or, more recently, The Hangover. And as a bonus, its low-budget and small cast and chamber set-pieces don't give away really that it's all made up dialog and interactions. I'd be interested to see someone's reaction going in on the film cold, knowing only that it's a comedy about two guys planning on having sex together for an amateur porn. At the moment, it's the comedy sleeper of the year, one that will find (or maybe lose) its audience by word of mouth.