I became aware of comedian Patrick Moote and his "cockumentary" Unhung Hero while listening to the "Doug Loves Movies" podcast. It's the first time I'd heard about his embarrassing proposal to his girlfriend at a UCLA basketball game where she, in plain view of everyone on the jumbotron, rebuffed him. If it wasn't bad enough that the video went viral on the internet and was covered on various television news reports, Patrick found out one of the main reasons she said no was that his penis wasn't big enough. Now, this would probably cause a lot of guys to want to crawl under a rock and hide but Moote, being a stand-up comic, decided to attack his misery with humour while dragging along a documentary crew as he tries to answer the must asked question: "Does size matter?"

When we first meet Patrick he's awkwardly nervous while sitting in a hotel room in New Guinea awaiting a sketchy "doctor" type to inject a whole bunch of yellow liquid into his unit. It's just one of his various attempts at enhancing and making his penis bigger - and it's definitely the most uncomfortable to watch. From here we're introduced to his back story, see a few video journals where Patrick talks about his goal of the flick and watch various candid interviews with his family and high school mates. There's also the ego shattering scenes where his ex-girlfriends weigh in about his prowess.

This starts his regime of enlargement attempts as he sneaks a secret camera into a sex shop to buy a penis pump and pills (eventually even calling the pill's maker ExtenZe to ask why they're not working), visits an adult film industry expo to hear from various porn stars about their opinions on penis size, hooks up with a few eccentric people like sexologist Anne Sprinkle (and her hippy-like methods of pretending to dry hump Mother Earth), gets pep talks from sex experts and takes silly side trips overseas to learn about penis weightlifting, plastic surgery and our aforementioned injections.

All the while Moote comes across as a likeable guy who's constantly fighting with his self esteem over the break-up and getting himself into odd situations (which are silly but fit the flick's unserious tone quite well) as he delivers the slight message that you shouldn't fret over such things. There's a lot of talk about society's expectations being affected by the XXX industry, a bunch of "man on the street" interviews and Patrick's constant amazement he's doing this documentary in the first place.

The best way to compare Unhung Hero to its reality brethren is to say it's basically a Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?) flick minus Spurlock. Much like his efforts this isn't trying to be very deep or change the World instead attempting to deliver some entertainment while throwing its hapless narrator into various, amusing situations. In that sense, this works. Does it answer the main question about size? Well, that would depend on your personal view, but by the end Patrick does come to accept his own situation and has even managed to move on after dating the girl who originally served him at the sex shop - and who he had a chance meeting with later at the trade show.

Seeing as when I hop onto Netflix I'm usually swayed between my usual diet of horror flicks, crappy B-movies and documentaries, I'm glad I gave Unhung Hero a chance. It's breezy enjoyment and its 86 minutes fly by. I didn't come away with any new opinions but at least I got to chuckle along the way and actually got to cheer the underdog when Patrick turned things around. Considering all the humourless, serious documentaries out there it's nice to balance them with something like this. If you're a fan of Spurlock's work or such things as Doug Benson's Super High Me then you should check this one out. (Chris Hartley, 12/18/13)

Directed By: Brian Spitz.

Starring: Patrick Moote, Jonah Falcon, Dan Savage, Brian Spitz.