Most Helpful Customer Reviews
|
|
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best movie I have ever seen., 21 Oct 2005
By A Customer
The craziest film that will have you in tears of laughter. A film that was meant only to be a bet, spurred into a blockbuster of a movie starring the most unlikeliest of actors that are Wesley Snipes, (yes, him that plays BLADE) and the Dirty Dancer of Patrick Swayze. Playing Drag Queens, Snipes and Swayze give an outstanding performance with a supporting cast from John Leguizamo, (the other Drag Queen). This brings the worlds society of homophobia to a complete new level that will make you understand why men dress up as women.
|
|
|
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Who'd have thought!, 6 Jan 2006
I first saw this movie when it was released. I was a reluctant viewer as I really can't stand Patrick Swayze...and the thought of him and Wesley Snipes in drag...! Well, who'd have thought that Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Leguziamo would have done such a fantastic job...and a very realistic job of playing 3 'career girls' from NYC!
Well, I loved it so much I bought the video when it was released, and it became our favourite 'after the pub' video...in fact we were just about to watch it the night that Princess Diana was in her fatal accident. What is the movie like? Well, its great and cliched fun. 3 drag queens [superbly played by Swayze, Snipes and Leguziamo] are on their way to California to compete in the Drag Queen of America pageant after Swayze [Ms Veda Boheme] and Snipes [Ms Noxema Jackson] tie for first place in the New York heat. They decide to take Leguziamo [Ms Chi Chi Rodriguez] with them, but to do so have to sell their plane tickets and buy a car to drive...what ensues is a bit Priscilla Queen of the desert, and to be honest, its a bit predictable. They break down outside a one-horse town and of course they win the hearts and souls of the inhabitants, liberating the women of the town in various ways, matchmaking, and causing mayhem in general. It has a real feel good factor ending, typical of Hollywood [but not typical of Beebon Kidron's usual direction], but its all good clean fun, with some great one-liners, and blink and you miss them cameos [Naomi Campbell telling Snipes she wished she was as pretty as him!]. Its not a family movie by any means, and of course will appeal mostly to a gay [male] audience, but overall I have to say that it is one of my favourite movies of all time, and it still goes on after the pub...except its on dvd now!
|
|
|
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, 3 Dec 2004
In this hugely flamboyant and very funny drag-queen comedy, Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Leguiszmo head for L.A to complete in the "drag-queens'" version of 'Miss World' but on the way, they get lost and end up in a sleepy town filled with a whole motherload of extraordinary characters for our 'queens' to interact with. Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes are both seriously hilarious and, sometimes, sadly annoying but it's John Leguiszmo's outrageously daring performance as Chi-Chi Rodriguez that makes this picture worth watching, even though Swayze and Snipes are pretty good themselves. The supporting cast ranging from Robin Williams, Stockard Channing to RuPaul and Alias's Michael Vartan all help the film flow smoothly while some of the locales look gorgeous and all the gags in this flick comes thick and fast.
Although this isn't 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert', this IS its exact equal but with a nicer feel to the genre that's filled with lots of fun, laughter and glamour that should be featured in these types of films.
|
|
|
Most Recent Customer Reviews
|
![The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H6NRMK2TL._SL75_SS50_.jpg)
![The Birdcage [DVD] [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HMD3Y8BVL._SL75_SS50_.jpg)
![Muriel's Wedding [DVD] [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TQR5D5FRL._SL75_SS50_.jpg)
![Kinky Boots [DVD] [2005]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519HZS6MVCL._SL75_SS50_.jpg)
![The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H6NRMK2TL._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
![The Birdcage [DVD] [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HMD3Y8BVL._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
![Kinky Boots [DVD] [2005]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519HZS6MVCL._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
![Muriel's Wedding [DVD] [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TQR5D5FRL._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
![Connie And Carla [DVD] [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZSCSSXA7L._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
With an Amazon.co.uk 
