Devid Striesow, Nina Hoss and Nicolette Krebitz - Devid Striesow, Nina Hoss, Nicolette Krebitz Berlin, Germany - Aftershow-party for the premiere of Das Herz ist ein dunkler Wald at the Kino International Wednesday 19th December 2007
Devid Striesow, Nina Hoss and Nicolette Krebitz - Devid Striesow, Nina Hoss, Nicolette Krebitz Berlin, Germany - Aftershow-party for the premiere of Das Herz ist ein dunkler Wald at the Kino International Wednesday 19th December 2007
Husky men in drag may be good for a sketch-comedy guffaw, but as the basis for an entire movie the idea always gets stretched way too thin.
It's the difference between "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," a good movie with authentic transvestites who happen to be fun and funny, and "To Wong Fu, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar," an inane movie built on nothing more than the incongruity of seeing Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo in flamboyant frocks. (OK, Leguizamo looked pretty damn good.)
But far worse than even "To Wong Fu" is "All the Queen's Men," in which decking out burly boys as "broads" is little more than a fatuous gimmick -- the kind of 25-words-or-less concept that is the basis of most bad movies: Wouldn't it be funny if a bunch of Allied soldiers went undercover as assembly-line women in a German factory during World War II?
Continue reading: All The Queen's Men Review
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