Released three summers back, Lynn Shelton’s mumblecore bromance “Humpday” was often very funny in its travesty of macho bravado and frenemy one-upsmanship; her modestly budgeted follow-up “Your Sister’s Sister” is smoother but less outrageous, although still an equivalent comedy of awkward sex — at least for its first half.
Like “Humpday,” “Your Sister’s Sister” is set in precincts of post-grunge Seattle and features indie filmmaker Mark Duplass in the role of a naturally obnoxious but disarmingly vulnerable and essentially good-natured guy-guy who gets over his head in a confusing erotic entanglement. Playing a married doofus in “Humpday,” Duplass stumbled into a mad art project featuring hetero dude-on-dude action to find himself on camera and in bed with an old college pal. (Predicated on whether the guys were actually going to make it, “Humpday” was, in effect, about itself.) In the more conventional “Your Sister’s Sister,” Duplass plays guy hung up on his late brother’s ex (Emily Blunt) who just happens to be his own self-described “best friend.” Read the full review on Movie Journal.