Normally my boyfriend would only wear pants, so he doesn't have much experience with shorts... but with his logic shorts should be short, so he went for 5 inch inseams way above the knee... and he LOVES them, but has gotten a lot of averse reactions and people telling him his shorts are too short.
I told him I love them too and they look fine to me, but he wanted more opinions besides my own whether they are too short or not.