 | Studios: | Universal Pictures |
| Release: | April 16, 2004 | |
| Genre: | Comedy | |
| MPAA Rating: | PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual humor and drug references |
Women pretending to be gay men impersonating women. It's been done before. Remember Victor/Victoria? In this movie, the catalyst is that the two leads witnessed a murder. To escape pursuers, they cross states and set up new identities ... as men.
The movie has cute moments. Enough to make me chuckle and giggle here and there.
The problem with this movie is that Nia Vardalos' curves are more on the earthly woman side, and most female impersonators I have seen tend to go for the model-type female bodies (big breasts, skinny everything else). You may say that there's Dame Edna and Nathan Lane in Birdcage ... I still think that had these characters been younger, they'd still go for the big-breasts-skinny-everything-else look. Toni Collette could have pulled it off bodywise, except that her character's too shy that it's hard to reconcile with a man who's flamboyant enough to impersonate a woman. In other words, the actresses they picked to play Connie and Carla just didn't convince me as much as Julie Andrews did in Victor/Victoria.
As for the murder witness arc, it's just too obvious they put it there just so there's a decent reason Connie and Carla would even think of pretending to be female impersonators.
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