Colorful and fabulous

Rating: Null/10 (3 June 2001)

This movie is highly recommended. It is a visual treat, the screen is full of garish colors and scenery of Australia's central region. The soundtrack is just amazing, they pull out songs I had not heard in years and I am a big fan of 1970s pop music. The movie stayed away from "To Wong Foo"'s message of "See, drag queens are people too" and just let these people live their fabulous lives and we can choose to come along for the ride or not. I also didn't get a sense, as in "La Cage Aux Folle", of the gay lifestyle being put up as a laughingstock. The characters were allowed to be well rounded people, with families and concerns in life beside costumes and acting "fabulous". See this movie. It would make an excellent double feature with a documentary called "Wigstock: The Movie" to show actualy female impersonators at home and on stage. I was pleasantly amused by reviewers who heartily recommend the movie but feel compelled to add "But I'm straight".