Queer Planet is a well-intentioned, visually stunning and enjoyably informative documentary, but also more than somewhat muddle-headed. In the concluding comments to the film the various scientist-presenters make the point that being more informed about just how queer nature can be might be key to humans being more tolerant of each other. It's odd then that Queer Planet is somewhat exclusively pitched at a queer audience, and would more than likely alienate those who most need to hear what it has to say. A big part of the problem is the gayer-than-gay narration by Andrew Rannells, jam-packed with gay culture allusions and you-go-gurl snark. It quickly becomes tiresome and by the end I would have been ready to endorse a fatwa on Rannells. I doubt your average straight viewer would find it appealing, much less entertaining. And anyone who came to the film sceptical or wary would instantly turn it off on the strength of the narration alone. There's a case for levity when it comes to selling science, but the wrong kind of levity only undermines and de-legitimises the science. This is very definitely the wrong kind of levity.