As MTV's anemic boy-band parody 2Gether illustrates, it's difficult, if not impossible, to satirize a phenomenon that already borders on self-parody. After all, how can any fictional show compete with the surreal absurdity of Making The Band, which documents the creation of boy band O-Town from its conception through the start of its career? Perhaps the pitfalls of spoofing a trend as transparently silly as this one led to Boy Wonderz's novel if equally misguided angle on the craze: The movie documents the travails of the fictional Disk-O-Boyz with a puzzling, amateurish mixture of heavy-handed comedy and misplaced seriousness. As the film begins, the clean-cut, lily-white members of Disk-O-Boyz are already on top of the world, playing sold-out tours—all eerily populated by the same 40 or so screaming extras—and landing on the covers of such vaguely familiar-looking magazines as Date, Stylish, PeopleWatch, and The Alternate. But all is not well with Disk-O-Boyz, as a series of crises (one carefully allotted to each member) threatens to destroy the quintet. Matters go from bad to worse after one member quits, then comes out of the closet, scoring a massive solo hit and showing up the boyz in the process. The film's decision to tackle crucial yet seldom-explored issues such as homophobia within boy bands is commendable, but Boy Wonderz otherwise feels hapless, mercenary, and opportunistic enough to make S Club 7 look like The Velvet Underground. The film manages a few ham-fisted satirical jabs to accompany its meandering, stiffly acted kitchen-sink melodrama, but the periodic laughs are strictly unintentional. Boy Wonderz will be lucky to end up as even a New Monkees-like footnote to a phenomenon already nearing extinction.