Connie and Carla Critic Reviews
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The result is pure, unabashed and unpretentious entertainment of a sort once a staple of the movies but now rare. Read the full review
The movie's queer delight is contagious. You'll exit lip-synching. Read the full review
The surprise -- and intermittent delight -- of Connie and Carla is the way that it taps into the everybody-is-a-star passion of the new sing-along culture.Read the full review
A clever idea, but it's not quite pulled off.Read the full review
Broad and cheesy, yet it is not utterly without a kind of junk-food appeal.Read the full review
It takes chutzpah to borrow from comedy maestros Billy Wilder and Blake Edwards, and Nia Vardalos would seem an unlikely candidate to get away with it unpunished. Read the full review
Seems as much an imposter in the drag-queen world as its heroines; it fronts the sort of safely asexual gay characters found on network TV.Read the full review
Veteran TV director Michael Lembeck slides the movie into a sitcom mode that only further deadens the thin material. While Vardalos and Collette shine in the musical numbers, why didn't he bother to give the musical sequences a bit of pizzazz? Read the full review
As a female vocal duo, their performances are passable, if a little dull and lacking in any sense of camp exaggeration. Read the full review
Plays like a genial amateur theatrical, the kind of production where you'd like it more if you were friends with the cast. The plot is creaky, the jokes are laborious, and total implausibility is not considered the slightest problem.Read the full review
