Die Mommie Die! Critic Reviews
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With his hilarious spoof Die Mommie Die! Charles Busch takes the melodramatic woman's picture of the '40s and '50s to delirious extremes.Read the full review
Makes a jolly absurdist stew out of its sources. Read the full review
Hotly hilarious. Read the full review
Busch combines French absurdist theater and American performance art with a drag queen's flamboyant wit. Read the full review
It succeeds, with a big, false-eyelashed wink. Read the full review
Doing for the cheesier Ross Hunter-style bigscreen soaps of the early/mid-'60s what "Far From Heaven" did for the plush Douglas Sirk melodramas of a decade earlier -- albeit with tongue planted much further in cheek -- writer/star Charles Busch's Die Mommie Die! is an enjoyable genre homage-cum-parody.Read the full review
Busch, looking like a depressed Stockard Channing, throws his tantrums with breathy ''aristocratic'' hauteur. Yet the movie winds up walking a line between put-on pastiche and kitsch passion, and Jason Priestley is perfect as a brooding lunkhead of Tab Hunter gigolo-osity.Read the full review
The problem with Die, Mommie, Die, a drag send-up of the genre, is that it spoils the fun by making it obvious. Read the full review
Neither hilarious nor a credible spoof. Read the full review
What's strangest, though, about Die Mommie Die! is how material that was obviously so giddily irreverent in origin became so inert, so joyless and dull.Read the full review
