D'gay, mate!

Rating: 7/10 (11 July 2005)

There have been many movies about drag queens, but "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" was probably the jolliest. Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce play three drag queens who travel across Australia in a bus on their way to a convention. They have many fun encounters on the way.
I guess that the movie's point was that as long as gay men are together, and as long as people tolerate them, then everyone is perpetually happy. Some people say that "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar" was a rehash of this movie; maybe so, but I liked "To Wong Foo..." better. Still, this one was pretty good itself.
Imagine that: the tough guy from various '60s movies, Agent Smith from "The Matrix" and Leonard from "Memento" as drag queens...