Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

How can I be serious about a light-hearted comedy? I recorded this, thinking that it would be amusing to have on in the background as I was packing. Nevertheless, within twenty minutes, I stopped moving around, made a coffee and watched it. Now, I am not a fan of drag shows...and I've seen a few. I like my entertainment professionally presented and for me to watch people miming is not something for which I'd pay. But the film was light-hearted enough, I knew where the plot was going, could guess the ending and to a certain extent, I enjoyed the songs. Both lead actress' were enjoyable to watch and I smiled a few times. So where did the crying come in? You see, I am a transgendered woman, and have been for decades. I also have a brother, the last member of my immediate family, and...I still love him. He used to agree to meet me in Tesco's car park. However, for the last four years, I have been abandoned and disowned, and told never to get in touch again. The scenes between the brothers were unimaginably painful to watch, even more so when they hugged. I have been yelled at by fundamental Christians, once they found out who I was (I am an author of some standing) and my life has retreated until I have become a recluse. We are all people. It offers me some comfort that everybody can find different and hidden meanings in films which are not designed to evoke such emotions.

Wow. What can I say? All I could think of through this whole messy film was: It takes some feat of directing to make Toni Collette look as bad as she does in Connie and Carla. The first half of the film is an hysterical pastiche of Some Like it Hot, possessing none of that film's wit and warmth, but much more than its quota of shrieking slapstick which is merely irritating. I love musicals, but I could barely watch the drag revue stuff because the film had alienated me so badly. Everything's done at top speed with the minimum of subtlety and the maximum of ham. Scenes are choppy and by rote, seemingly unconnected to what's come before or what follows. The only relief comes from David Duchovny (in the tentative Marilyn Monroe role) as the straight brother of a drag queen who reluctantly starts to enjoy hanging out with Nia Vardalos (as a man). Duchovny alone refuses to buy into the hysteria around him and brings the only note of honesty and reality to the movie. Thank god for his oasis of calm in an otherwise overwrought film. The scene where he gets a manicure from Vardalos is appealing and funny and gives an insight into how the rest of the movie could have played out in better hands. But Duchovny is swimming against a serious tide of manic over-acting and finally even he flounders in the wholly predictable finale which is tired and smacks of convenience and a lack of imagination.

The girl who wrote and starred in this film had everything. A hit movie about a fat Greek wedding and the world was her own. Then she wrote her second film, and it's possibly the worst movie ever made. It plays like a cheap eighties movie you'd see on cable. Then proceeds to be about girls dressing up as guys dressing up as girls, with a story about one of their male gay friends who tries to reason with his straight brother, who, by the way, the main character, Carla, is in love with. Boring. The main plot of the girls dressing up as guys being girls isn't bad, in fact it's kind of clever. Not entirely original, but it could have worked in some degrees. But the way this film was made, edited, acted, is what makes it so horrendous. It's really one of the worst movies ever, a sophomore jinx the likes we may never witness. That actress, she had it all... and threw it all away just like you will watching this stinker. And Debbie Reynold's cameos might be one of the worst celebrity cameos in the history of modern film.

This movie is hilarious! Sure it's corny... but I haven't seen a stage show yet that wasn't. The over-blown drama is exactly the way it is in plays, musicals, and dinner theatre. Without the big drama... it's just another movie taking up shelf space at your local video store.Adjusting to the concept of drag queens was strange at first, but by the end of the movie you actually develop an understanding of and insight into why they are who they are and why they do what they do. In the movie they refer to it as an 'art form of being true to one's self' ...and even I can relate to that.The best-friend relationship between Connie and Carla really carries the movie, not to mention all the different characters and the facial expressions they use. The characters also show growing pains along with their growth, which stays true to the drama of Broadway shows.This movie is about two girls having a dream, and overcoming the obstacles of realizing that dream. It's obvious that these actors loved doing this movie and had fun while doing it. This movie has surprisingly become one of my favorite movies. Just watch it and give it a chance... you will adore it.