5/10 Overrated

Rating: 5/10 (22 January 2002)

Like most movies that are "out there", this film is drastically overrated. The movie works on some levels, because I will give it this, the music in the film is very good. Unfortunately, my praise for the film starts and ends there.
John Cameron Mitchell, yeah sure he talks funny and yeah, he does look like a girl, but what else make his performance good? Nothing. Sure the film is perversely weird, but does that make it great? No. As a love story the film fails, as a character portrait of a transvestite the film fails. It only succeeds in the music. Get the soundtrack from the library, avoid the movie.