full of sound and fury signifying nutty

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2004)

I had been told that this movie was very funny and that I should surely view it. I was skeptical, but put it on my CD player anyway. What a lot of noise and silliness! So much might be done with the subject matter--drag queens, homosexuals, transvestites trying to make their way in the world--but this film settles for a superficial view of how a minority group and society at large relate to each other. At this point I cannot tell one actor from another, but I thought the depiction of the character who is married and has a child was best. Although the trio ran into some bad situations with local people at times, on the whole they got off better than would probably have been the case if they had toured the American west a hundred years ago--or even today. On the other hand Oscar Wilde toured that region with a lily in his hand!