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Gaffer Tape
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16-Jun-2013, 10:10 PM

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)

My former roommate gave me this for my birthday three years ago, but I never sat down to watch it until now.  It's... well, I can't say it's good, and, even though it's a positive portrayal of drag queens, it already feels rather dated.  The idea to have the characters constantly be in drag every moment of every day is ridiculous but also rather funny, but it does make me wonder if this would have been better suited for transgender characters rather than drag queens.  But it has a lot of heart, even if its story is pretty thin and hollow.  The real draw, though, is getting to see Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizzamo portray drag queens.  Their performances are amazing and lift up a rather pedestrian story about oddballs shaking up a small town.

I'd say it gets mired in stereotypes, but at least it's even-handed.  Yeah, the small-town heterosexuals are clueless and dumb, but the drag queens are also petty and bitchy.  There are straight jokes, gay jokes, black, jokes, white jokes, Hispanic jokes, so it's all across the board.