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Summary: funny and touching
Review: i love this film! i bought it because it was [inexpensive] and starred guy pearce, who i love. it's amazing how relatable 2 drag queens and a transexual can become. i've heard people praise terrence stamp's performance as a transexual, but i have to really say guy pearce is awesome as the sharp-tongued "adam/felicia". his comedic timing is flawless and his chemistry with the others if amazing. i am especially impressed since all i had seen him im before was l.a. confidential and memento. the costumes are flawless and the oscar for these were richly deserved. i also have to give hugo weaving and terrence stamp high praises for their performances. the only warning i can give for this film is that this film is not for abba fans-if you watch this film you'll know what i mean.
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Summary: This is a classic film!
Review: This film was undoubtedly one of THE BEST that I have seen in a long time. The actors do a beautiful job as well! This film is one that you can watch over and over again...
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Summary: I want to go to Australia
Review: Really charming, lovable movie. Makes its points on acceptance, etc. completely effortlessly (except for that really corny close-up of a portrait of Queen Elizabeth, but never mind) while delivering great entertainment that is genuinely heart-warming without being the least bit syrupy. As great as the costumes, cinematography, and "classic" music are, it's the characters who really make it work. The three male leads are all so perfect I can't even choose a favourite. Suffice to say, they're all incredibly funny, and all show their dramatic skills too, which are considerable. All hail Terrence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce! Also lovable are Bill, and Mitzi's fabulous wife--she's just perfect. As it was ending, I wanted it to go on for another 20 or so minutes, just so I wouldn't have to leave all the characters yet.
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Summary: TERENCE STAMP! YOU DESERVED AN OSCAR!!!
Review: Terence, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce had to have had a ball making this movie and I'd have given anything to have been a part of the crew!In lieu of that experience, I will cherish my copy of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (and give thanks for the Bill of Rights that says I can have it despite what the religious right says!!)
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Summary: Top of its class! A real gem of a film!
Review: While working in Australia, co-workers suggested I rent this movie (among others) for an Australian movie night. I was glad they did! Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, is a screen movie gem. The film is a funnier, wilder, more adventerous version of Too Wong Fu. I was on the floor laughing, crying, and dancing! The characters are brilliantly portrayed as three drag queens on the adventure of a lifetime through the desert of Australia. The friendship, mishaps, and performances that happen through the film are endearing. Oh...and did you hear this film won an Oscar for its costumes? One look at the scenes on top of the bus, with the SHOE, are exactly why! The costumes are spectacular! I bought a copy of this movie when I returned home from Australia for those nights when I just need a light, funny, beautiful movie! A must own!
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Summary: (...) Brilliant Four Film Festival
Review: How good are these guys? Try watching these in succession for comparison's sake:
"Priscilla," for the performances of Weaving, Pearce, & Stamp.
"The Limey," for Stamp's Wilson.
"L.A. Confidential," for Pearce's Exley.
"The Matrix," for Weaving's Agent.
ACTING! THANK YOU!
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Summary: Tremendous visual appeal and wickedly funny!
Review: The scenes with the cape or veil blowing back out of the bus haunt one's memory, but the real screamer is when the tough miner demands of the heroine(?) to be screwed. She smiles enticingly, and when he approachs knees him. As he falls to the ground she(?) smiles sweetly and says " There, now you're screwed." If this strikes you as too raunchy, avoid this film like the plague...If not, buy it! If you like this, may I recommend Hedwig and the Angry Inch and, of course, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Summary: Mr. Smith does Down Under
Review: Three cross dressers, a bus, and the Australian outback.. what more could you want? Oh yeah, you could wish that some lame American actors wouldn't be hired to do a Pale and completely LAME imitation of this brilliantly amusing film, but that would be futile. Once something good happens in film (foreign or domestic), it is a forgone conclusion that some hack in Hollywood will try to imitatate it.
Oh well. With the required rant about lame imitations aside (I won't even justify the imitation of this film by naming it, but Wesly Snipes should stick to kicking [butt] and taking names in low budget action flicks), I guess I can review the film itself.
Great.
That's all I can really say. Funny? Yes. Thought provoking? OK, they got that. Weird and somewhat disburbing? Oh yeah.
And if you're homophobic, Please watch this movie.
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Summary: Queen Regent
Review: This is the best movie about be gay ever made, because it isn't about being gay. It's about two men, and a woman who happens to be a post-op T/S, crossing the Australian desert in a bus. It's about three people who learned very early on in life that they're not destined to be what other people want them to be, and have given up trying, even in small ways. These people are kind, and as much as they bicker, take care of one another when you get right down to it. The film has messages about acceptance: when these people encounter resistance to whom they are, they overcome it most often by simply remaining whom they are, and also by showing their own acceptance of themselves and one another. The film isn't about messages, though, it's about fun. It's about dance, and music. It's a celebration of some of the worst music that ever topped the charts, and some of the worst dancing that is top of the line if you know it's supposed to be camp. This film is a literal laugh-a-minute, and I don't use the word "literal" unless I mean it. What's more, the lead actors give three powerful performances. We care about these three people. We are riveted to the screen, emotionally attached to Bernadette, Adam and Tony, wanting them to be all right, just because we care about them. Of a thousand films to come out each year, only a handful have performances like these three deliver. This is a great film about being gay, but it's not a "gay" film, in that such a genre exists-- it's not a coming out film, it's not Jeffrey: it's not full of inside jokes that straight people will miss. This is a film for everyone about claiming one's own uniqueness, however it manifests. Anyone can identify with this film. And anyone can roll on the floor laughing. I did. I know people who saw it in theatres, then had to rent it to pick up all the lines they missed, because the theatre audience drowned out half the dialogue with its laughter.
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Summary: Fun Film
Review: Delightful and harrowing journey from Sydney to Alice Springs. Characters are very well chosen. Terance Stamp is great. Hugo Weaving is supurb. Guy Pearce is, uh well, amazing. A fun film that also deals with life changing experiences. Bravo!
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