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Watch To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Two Elite Manhattan drag queens impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. Together with one of the losers that evening, they travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.
CRITICS OF "To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar"
New York Times
Kidron's direction stays flat even when the actors are funny. It doesn't help that the screenplay, by Douglas Carter Beane, is so thin that one of its biggest events is the three main characters' having car trouble.
May 20, 2003
San Francisco Examiner
The best thing about this movie is all the free advice it offers. As Vida warns before she leaves town, "Believe in yourself, and moisturize - this I cannot stress enough."
Leguizamo's Chi Chi is the only one who looks anything like a drag queen, let alone a woman; yet we are asked to believe that it's Swayze's breathy Vida and Snipes' squealing Noxeema who've got their stocking seams straight.
Carried on the strong shoulders of its protagonists, scene-stealers all, the film succeeds in being fun and even touching, though the story itself is somewhat thin and cliched.
For some, the film's unabashed sentimentality and fairy-tale quality may go too far, but To Wong Foo is such a delight that it's easy to overlook the few awkward moments.
A politically correct comedy about drag queens? This is the American response to the superior Aussie flick Adventures of Priscilla. Macho Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo can't lift it above the routine.
December 31, 2006
GALLERY OF "To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar"