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This film is essentially a road trip flick featuring Priscilla, a huge bus hurdling through the Australian outback with three bedecked and bedazzled drag queens inside. Of course, the bus and the trip are symbols for the personal growth experienced by the three men along the way, but the best part of this film is really its searing one-liners. Any film in which a man in drag says to a tough bar-broad "why don't you light your tampon and blow your box apart because that's the only bang you're ever gonna get" is a good one in my book. The costumes and "production numbers" another the trip are a joy to behold. Although the film waivers a bit trying too hard to be a poignant meditation on the trials and tribulations of queer folk (i.e. one of the queens is on his way to see his wife and child, the bus is painted with a blatantly anti-gay message along the trip), it never fails to entertain and keeps the pace going with ABBA and other disco favorites.
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There's something heartbreaking about listening to people with no sense of humor explain, with resolute logic, why something isn't funny. Unless you're unapologetically homophobic, in which case you don't deserve to have fun, there's just no reason why you wouldn't be delighted by this minor masterpiece. Forget the movie, all you need is the premise to start laughing.
In Australia, widely known as the most macho place on earth, three drag queens go on an epic journey inland in an ancient bus named Priscilla which routinely breaks down at the most inconvenient times. While lip-synching Abba tunes blaring from a boom box hardly strikes me as art; the combination of costumes, wigs, make-up, attitude, and dancing required to create a drag show for a group of aborigines is impressive at the very least, if not heroic.
It seems to me that Mrs. Doubtfire, and Tootsie for that matter, projected a level of awareness scrubbed so clean it would have been at home on Love American Style. Priscilla, by contrast, strikes the perfect balance. It is madly over the top and hilarious, reveling in the sheer absurdity and outrageousness of it all. But it is also warm, never patronizing, the more the characters get to know each other the more you get to know them and like them in the process.
There are difficult choices at the end of the movie, and loss. By then you really do care. All three leads are terrific, but Terrence Stamp is the standout here. With invisible craft he delivers the bravest performance of his career, it has real nuance, not easy to pull off when you look like Cher. Certainly the kind of film one would qualify as a "cult classic," and well worth owning. Just the thing to take off the shelf when you're starting to take yourself too seriously. Y-Abba-D-Abba-Do.
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A style over substance celebration of the drag queen mentality - if you enjoy misogynist bitchy dialogue being delivered by pantomime women, this movie is for you
Elliot's love of drag queens overshadows the rest of this flimsy, contrived and lame narrative - clealry it's about getting as many shots as possble of drag queen costumes against the outback setting
It's alleged stance against homophobia and plea of acceptance of difference is trite and cringeworthy
If anything, this film reinforces negative stereotypes of gay men as nasty effeminate queens who are not to be taken serioulsy.
Sadly it's been embraced by the same pandering gay men who think drag queens are 'camp' and therefore funny, indicative of how off the mark they are of what defines camp (go read Susan Sontag boys) and how low 'gay culture' as plummeted.
There are plentiful nasty jokes targeting female gentilia, and a secondary racist commentary about Thai women 'entrapping' Aussie men
Trashy and not in a good way. A must have for no brainer gay men.
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This is a heartwarming story of the adventures of 3 gender-bending entertainers who travel through the Aussie outback on their way to a casino gig. There is never a dull moment in their trials and jubilations as they always find a way to make the best of whatever situation they find themselves in. The costume designer should have won an Oscar for this movie because these guys have some outfits that will knock your socks off. The plot is excellent in that it portrays the most human side of these men, and the bottom line is, we're all just searching for true happiness and inner peace. This movie is so funny, you will laugh your butt off!
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this really is a great movie....its an aussie flick...the characters are colourful and funny...some truly great moments in the film that make you realise that people are people and all people want is to be accepted.
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