I really wanted to love this movie as a family flick, but the drag queen situations are a little beyond my 5 year old's comprehension. Still, I was in stitches multiple times due to Nia Vardalos Comedic writing and competent acting. The premise - show tune singing lounge singers/dinner theater singers witness a mafia hit and leave town to hide out - in plain sight in LA - as Drag Queens singing Show Tunes! Very "Some Like it Hot" with the only box office star of stage and screen being Debby Reynolds - I mean, although Nia and Toni are good actors, it is no Marilyn Monroe/Tony Curtis level dynamic going on. Duchovny does a decent job as Nia's love interest in the movie. Good acting, just predictable plot movement.I kept thinking through the movie that the singers would contact the LA FBI office anonymously and explore helping with the investigation in the mafia hit back in Chicago. Still, the rather lame plot development - given that it has been done several times before - treated the gender bending situations in a modern light that was humorous and actually inviting. I'm as straight as the day is long and I love show tunes, so to see a room full of actors & extras belting out "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" or "I'm gonna Wash That Man...." -- well, it was so stereotypical and at the same time, poignant! Of course, no "Some Enchanted Evening" or "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" was used in the production of this movie, and if "I feel Pretty" was covered, I missed it - thankfully. Absolutely delightful, can't wait to watch it with my sons when they are older - it might prompt some discussion of why men are called "Drag Queens" rather than "They are weird".

I watched it tonight as a TiVo suggestion. I thought it was a good combo between "To Wong Foo..." and "Victor Victoria". I saw 2 stage performances of the latter (and the movie) but the stage were separated by many years- still fun (in Chicago). Wong Foo I've only seen movie but many times. As a woman of 70, I know that drag queens could teach most of us a lot, and people have often told me I look just like Debbie Reynolds (from my 20's to recently).I wrote in to the cable networks that they messed up by having "Queer Eye for .. girl" using regular lesbians, because they have little to teach other women. I would love lessons on styling from drag queens (if I can't get a free makeover from Nick Arrojo).

The girl who wrote and starred in this film had everything. A hit movie about a fat Greek wedding and the world was her own. Then she wrote her second film, and it's possibly the worst movie ever made. It plays like a cheap eighties movie you'd see on cable. Then proceeds to be about girls dressing up as guys dressing up as girls, with a story about one of their male gay friends who tries to reason with his straight brother, who, by the way, the main character, Carla, is in love with. Boring. The main plot of the girls dressing up as guys being girls isn't bad, in fact it's kind of clever. Not entirely original, but it could have worked in some degrees. But the way this film was made, edited, acted, is what makes it so horrendous. It's really one of the worst movies ever, a sophomore jinx the likes we may never witness. That actress, she had it all... and threw it all away just like you will watching this stinker. And Debbie Reynold's cameos might be one of the worst celebrity cameos in the history of modern film.

I had great hopes for this movie, two actresses I have enjoyed watching before on screen and lots of show tunes what could I not like.In fact I did like it, there were some funny moments, the stage numbers were good, both ladies performing very well, Toni in particular. Stroke of genius having Debbie Reynolds turn up at the end, though it would have been good to see all of the song, just to make it a bit camper! So there is lots going for it, that said it is what it is, light and without a great deal of substance. I expect it will appeal to gay men more than any other demographic group but it should not be dismissed out of hand, because of that, so lets not get snobby about what is essentially a bit of fun.