Sure enough, it isn't long before a bigoted local mom, Maggie (Kathy Najimy), launches a crusade against the naïve Paul, with an army of furious parents in tow.

[2] Referring to the rest of the actors, he said, "When we had the full cast assembled, my best friend looked at me and said, 'You do realize that at one point or another, you have said to me about every single person in this movie, 'I think so-and-so is a genius' ... and when we sat down to [do a read-through], I was overwhelmed.

[4] Writing for The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis said, "[the film] may be trying to address gay persecution and social paranoia, but it mostly comes off as a study of arrested development.

The movie's most laudable gamble is its refusal to make [the characters] sympathetic, but the moral subtleties are obscured by a one-dimensional script and a protagonist as self-centered and lacking in expression as a fetus.

[5] In a more positive appraisal, the Los Angeles Times called it "a comedy of the darkly absurd", describing Najimy as "at once hilarious and scary", while saying of Paige, "[he] reveals that he is not only a fearless actor but a skilled and thoughtful [filmmaker].