Connie and Carla (2004)

I fell in love with this movie in the first 5 minutes. of watching it. It is very funny and fun to watch. My partner and I have the entire. film memorized. It never gets old. It is a classic. We recommend that you see . this movie and watch it with friends. This is a great rainy or sunny day film. If we could rate it higher. than a 10 we would.I fell in love with this movie in the first 5 minutes. of watching it. It is very funny and fun to watch. My partner and I have the entire. film memorized. It never gets old. It is a classic. We recommend that you see . this movie and watch it with friends. This is a great rainy or sunny day film. If we could rate it higher. than a 10 we would.I fell in love with this movie in the first 5 minutes. of watching it. It is very funny and fun to watch. My partner and I have the entire. film memorized. It never gets old. It is a classic. We recommend that you see . this movie and watch it with friends. This is a great rainy or sunny day film. If we could rate it higher. than a 10 we would.I fell in love with this movie in the first 5 minutes. of watching it. It is very funny and fun to watch. My partner and I have the entire. film memorized. It never gets old. It is a classic. We recommend that you see . this movie and watch it with friends. This is a great rainy or sunny day film. If we could rate it higher. than a 10 we would.I fell in love with this movie in the first 5 minutes. of watching it. It is very funny and fun to watch. My partner and I have the entire. film memorized. It never gets old. It is a classic. We recommend that you see . this movie and watch it with friends. This is a great rainy or sunny day film. If we could rate it higher. than a 10 we would.

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.

This movie was literally the most fun I've had watching a movie in a long time! It's refreshingly different from the mainstream and made me smile, laugh out loud, and sit on the edge of my seat. Nia Vardalos is brilliant! The script is great with lots of little jokes and inside jokes, and once you discover them you will laugh even harder at a moment which was already funny. But, other than writing a great script, Nia Vardalos(Connie) and Toni Colette(Carla) did a fantastic job of acting their corny, cute characters. Another great asset to the movie was the great chemistry between Vardalos and David Duchovny. I loved this movie, and hope that you too will enjoy this spunky story of two women pretending to be men pretending to be women.

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.