Greg's review of "Race You to the Bottom"

It's kind of a problem when you have a movie that largely focuses on two characters and, well, you can't stand either one of them. That was my experience watching a screener DVD of "Race You to the Bottom," a film that follows Nathan (Cole Williams), a travel journalist, as he is assigned to write about romantic hot-spots in the Napa Valley. He invites Maggie (Amber Benson), the woman he has been seeing for months, to come along for a passionate weekend getaway.
But here's a twist: both Nathan and Maggie have boyfriends! And these boyfriends both think the pair have that Wll and Grace tyoe of relationship so they think nothing of these two "buddies" taking off up the coast to research the travel piece.
What follows is talking, talking and more talking and much of it does not feel at all the way real people talk to each other. It's that "Dawson's Creek" type of dialogue where they are saying deep and smart things but mostly they just seem self-absorbed and boring. The love scenes also have zippo sizzle.
Nathan was the biggest problem for me. He says he's a 70-30 bisexual ("I like my men passive and my women aggressive") but I don't believe for a minute that he's into girls and you wonder why he's dragging Maggie through all of this. And Maggie. Why is she cheating on her boyfriend with this guy? What does she see in Nathan?
Anyway, the best scenes are the fights the two have toward the end of the film, where they really say some nasty things to each other and for the first time, you believe that Nathan is an actual human being with feelings. And at the start of the road trip, they stop by the house of one of Maggie's girlfriends, a smug gal with a hot husband who chose her over Maggie. Nathan kind of evens the score for Maggie by seducing hot hubby in the barn as the girls are cooking lunch.
Still, I'm lukewarm at best about "Race You to the Bottom" and disappointed that there wasn't more going on in this film.