The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Critic Reviews

The generosity and gorgeousness with which Aussie writer-director Stephan Elliott (and costume designers Lizzy Gardiner and Tim Chappel) turn this most unlikely road picture into something arresting - if a tad sentimental - in its naive vision of a perfectly tolerant world.Read the full review

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert presents a defiant culture clash in generous, warmly entertaining ways.Read the full review

A cheerfully vulgar and bitchy, but essentially warmhearted, road movie with a difference, which boasts an amazing star turn by Terence Stamp as a transsexual, Stephan Elliott's second feature is a lot of fun.Read the full review

In this roaringly comic and powerfully affecting road movie, Terence Stamp gives one of the year's best performances.Read the full review

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is about the most fun you can have with three guys who like to dress up as women.Read the full review

The comic pizazz and bawdy dazzle of this film's vision of gaudy drag performers trekking across the Australian outback certainly has a boisterous, addictive way about it. [10 Aug 1994]Read the full review

It is done well, yet one is still surprised to find it done at all.Read the full review

Writer-director Stephan Elliott is obviously fond of his characters, and this may account for the upbeat story line, but it blinds him to how very annoying two hours of dishing can be.Read the full review

Like the "girls," the movie is flamboyant in almost every respect - the costumes, the humor and the sentimentality. [1 Sep 1994]Read the full review