Lucybespro
It is a performances centric movie
ThedevilChoose
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
SanEat
A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
jeanwinchester
How can I be serious about a light-hearted comedy? I recorded this, thinking that it would be amusing to have on in the background as I was packing. Nevertheless, within twenty minutes, I stopped moving around, made a coffee and watched it. Now, I am not a fan of drag shows...and I've seen a few. I like my entertainment professionally presented and for me to watch people miming is not something for which I'd pay. But the film was light-hearted enough, I knew where the plot was going, could guess the ending and to a certain extent, I enjoyed the songs. Both lead actress' were enjoyable to watch and I smiled a few times. So where did the crying come in? You see, I am a transgendered woman, and have been for decades. I also have a brother, the last member of my immediate family, and...I still love him. He used to agree to meet me in Tesco's car park. However, for the last four years, I have been abandoned and disowned, and told never to get in touch again. The scenes between the brothers were unimaginably painful to watch, even more so when they hugged. I have been yelled at by fundamental Christians, once they found out who I was (I am an author of some standing) and my life has retreated until I have become a recluse. We are all people. It offers me some comfort that everybody can find different and hidden meanings in films which are not designed to evoke such emotions.
vldazzle
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).
Honeycombe
Maybe your opinion of the movie starts with what you were expecting to begin with. I didn't expect much. So when I saw it, I was pleasantly surprised. I thought it was funny, funny, funny. Being female, I could relate to Connie and Carla's predicament. It was a fanciful look at a cliché' plot of two gals running from the mob (a la Some Like It Hot, or Victor Victoria). It's no classic like Some Like It Hot, but it's still a very entertaining, well acted small movie made with a small budget. I found myself amused at the girls' confidence throughout the years that they would "make it" professionally, when in fact they were not very good. And I found myself thrilled for them when they DID finally make it (although as drag queens)....they finally saw their dream come true. And the mob guy who chases them across America and becomes infatuated with "Mame" .....hilarious.A great little movie worth the watch. Entertaining from start to finish. A few laughs, a few tender moments. Kudos to the actress/producer who persevered to get her movie made, despite many obstacles.
Colette Corr
Considering what glamorous creatures they are, it's been a while since we saw a Hollywood drag film. But in Connie and Carla, the latest film from My Big Fat Greek Wedding scriptwriter/actress Nia Vardalos, half the cast are queens. And there's a cameo from Debbie Reynolds.Dorky duo Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (an underused Toni Collette) are dinner theatre performers who waitress between show tunes as they perform to bored patrons. But all that changes when they witness a mob killing, go on the run and hide out in LA as drag 'kings'. Ironically they find their audience, until Connie falls for Jeff (David Duchovny), the estranged brother of her drag pal Peaches (Steven Spinella, who recently won a Tony for Angels in America).Directed by comic actor Michael Lembeck, Connie and Carla is a cornball, feel-good date flick. Vardalos and Collette ably flex their muscles as cabaret performers, supported by a cast of lovable drag queens. It was cute to see a mob thug transformed into a musical aficionado after searching for the girls at numerous hick venues.If you loathe the Hollywood machine, don't see Connie and Carla. But if you're a sucker for show tunes or romantic comedies, you'll enjoy it.