Balderdash. I fully appreciate American film as much as foreign. That

said, foreign films have far outstripped American offerings for the past what, 20 years, as American producers have decided that Fx is art, in itself. Budgets are blown on infantile story lines that bore intelligent 8 year olds. These films are helmed by hacks, portrayed by third-rate acting talents. For every "Shotgun Stories" or "Winter's Bone," there are seventy or more pieces of crap.
Actually, you have reverse snobbism, bordering on xenophobia. Critics are snobs. The masses are the true arbiters of art.
"Withnal and I" is a brilliant comedy on many, many levels and produced two stars because of its lasting influence. It just may be the funniest portrayal of male adults coping with the lunacy that was 1969.
Rottentomatoes has it @ 94% critics, 93% audience.
It appears you are in a very, very small minority.
Regarding 22: it was littered with over-the-top gay references, extremely gay male "bonding" behavior. NO other film I can think of is similar, as I stated.
Remove the "love" interest, and it is an American "La Cage aux Folles."
You've never been married, right? I mean, since we're throwing around insinuations?
Oh, if you google, you'll find many, many hits about the gayness of the film--- I picked this ditty randomly:
"Using their influence to override normally gay-wary studio execs, the team has kicked the brom-com — that recent phenomenon in broad comedy popularized by Seth Rogen, James Franco, et al. — into the overtly homoerotic. The result is brilliant, heroic and somewhat subversive; the filmmakers are tickling and trashing the American performativity of masculinity, which I recently railed against with regard to Elliot Rodger and what really pushed him to mass murder. But their impact is worth ten thousand pseudo-intellectual essays on social psychology. Joy."
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Topic - "22 Jump Street:" the first gay mainstream American film. - tinear 09:19:48 07/10/14 (15)

Perhaps... - mkuller 11:17:00 07/12/14 (2)

I looked at the link . . . Bwahahahaha........ - Billy Wonka 11:44:04 07/14/14 (1)

Ever see... - mkuller 13:01:22 07/14/14 (0)

What wasn't mainstream about... - musetap 21:37:04 07/10/14 (6)

You're right. How about first comedy? - tinear 08:59:30 07/11/14 (5)

Not intended as a comedy, but, - Larry I 13:26:03 07/11/14 (0)

Wasn't really anything gay about SLIH, not in the contemporary useage of the word... - musetap 11:20:31 07/11/14 (0)

I saw SLIH as a kid and thought it was funny . . . - Billy Wonka 09:17:36 07/11/14 (2)

Good points, both you and mousecrap. nt - tinear 21:43:15 07/11/14 (0)

Still one of the best comedies ever... - musetap 11:27:48 07/11/14 (0)

Tin-bo, "Withnail" is one of the most over-rated pieces of dreck ever . . . - Billy Wonka 10:27:16 07/10/14 (4)

Balderdash. I fully appreciate American film as much as foreign. That - tinear 21:32:04 07/10/14 (3)

Uh-oh, yer knickers are in a twist . . . - Billy Wonka 09:04:42 07/11/14 (2)

Okay, that's why. I think Grant's hysterical. No one does pomposity better. I think R T - tinear 07:30:09 07/12/14 (1)

Grant has the Allan Cummings effect....mild nausea. * - Billy Wonka 15:55:18 07/12/14 (0)

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Balderdash. I fully appreciate American film as much as foreign. That - tinear 21:32:04 07/10/14 (3)

Uh-oh, yer knickers are in a twist . . . - Billy Wonka 09:04:42 07/11/14 (2)

Okay, that's why. I think Grant's hysterical. No one does pomposity better. I think R T - tinear 07:30:09 07/12/14 (1)

Grant has the Allan Cummings effect....mild nausea. * - Billy Wonka 15:55:18 07/12/14 (0)

Balderdash. I fully appreciate American film as much as foreign. That

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