Girls Will Be Girls
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Movie Reviews of Girls Will Be Girls
Movie Review: A fun, campy, wonderfully un-PC melodrama about the movies
Summary: 5 Stars
Young Varla follows in her mother's footsteps and moves to Hollywood to chase her dreams of stardom. She moves in with two other actresses: Coco, trying to find her true love but haunted by dreams of Dr. Perfect; and Evie, an aging actress trying to make a comeback. Along the way, Varla meets Stevie, the handsome son of Evie. He falls in love with her at first sight, but wonders if his "tiny" problem will get in the way of their being together. When Varla gets her big break in a commercial, jealousy rears its head as Evie remembers the shocking and disturbing events that happened between her and Varla's mother, Marla. Is Varla here to thwart her efforts at regaining her stardom?This is a wonderfully campy and un-PC look at the Hollywood dream of making it big in the movies. The story is a little slow in some points, but the actors more than make up for it with their delivery of the catty dialogue and their acting skills. What also makes this a wonderful film is that all the actors are men: from Varla, Coco and Evie to Stevie, the nurse and Dr. Perfect. Jack Plotnick (Evie), Clinton Leupp (Coco), and Jeffrey Robertson (Varla/Marla) are all phenomenal in their roles. And Ron Mathews gives a fine, comic performance as Stevie. The special effects are interesting, too, and quite surprising.
The DVD is great, not only because of the extras (like the funny deleted scenes), but each menu has a little routine either by all four of the main leads or by them in groups of two. Special dialogue written and filmed especially for the DVD. The picture is one of the sharpest I've scene, and the sound quality is perfect. For anyone who enjoys a campy, fun movie, this is the perfect one for you!!
Movie Review: These Girls Rock!
Summary: 5 Stars
The mean one-liners and the quality of the ensemble cast already have the ingredients of a cult classic, but the over-the-top visual gags and the bizarre final 20 minutes serve it up as a total original. Jack Plotnick as Evie, Clinton Leupp as Coco, and Jeffrey Roberson as Varla trade on their larger-than-life drag personas to paint a picture of an unhappy (but colorful!) home, sort of a gender-bent "Three's Company" with a badly coiffed Grinch instead of Jack Tripper at its center. Ron Mathews does a great job as the loving son of Evie who gives Varla every little bit he can (and who is really easy on the eyes--what a knockout!). I saw this movie when it first premiered in Seattle, with Jack Plotnick introducing it, and I laughed until I cried. I was surprised it didn't get a longer run in theaters. I preordered the DVD as soon as it was available.The DVD has funny snippets of dialog among the main characters as you choose from all the menus, and there is a small featurette on how "guys will be girls" through the magic of makeup. Richard Day keeps things moving apace with the writing and direction, and the set design alone (which I understand was mainly shot in Day's own home) is worth pressing the Pause button in several places. From the high-kicking theme song and opening montage through its final scenes, this movie takes you on a bizarre, tasteless, and yet in some ways heartfelt ride. And oh yes, Evie's accidental nudity still cracks me up every time I watch it--I don't care that it's train-wreck terrible, I laugh! This is my new favorite party movie, surpassing "Hedwig" and "Showgirls," which is saying something in my home.
Movie Review: Pee-Your-Pants Funny
Summary: 5 Stars
Evie (Jack Plotnick) is a washed-up B-movie actress who is decidedly not aging gracefully. She lives with Coco (Clinton Leupp), her more grounded friend who functions mainly as Evie's maid and abuse magnet. Into their lives walks their new roommate Varla (Jeffery Roberson), an aspiring starlet whose late mother Marla was also Evie's most hated acting rival. All of them have dreams, of course. Evie's dreams involve drinking as many martinis as she can and then having plenty of sex with anyone available. Coco still pines for the hunky abortion doctor that operated on her many years ago. Varla hopes to become the actress that her mother couldn't while dealing with the advances of Evie's gorgeous son Stevie (Ron Mathews). Of course, there are hidden motives galore, and more than one mean-spirited one-liner. Plotnick is quite humorous, dropping the most of them and the clips of Evie performing in the 60's stinker "Asteroid" resemble nothing less than Morgan Fairchild on qualudes. Leupp reprises the role of Coco from his scene-stealing moments in the movie "Trick", and he imbues the character both with a humorous sense of bad luck and an immediately sympathetic personality. Roberson is not quite as spectacular as his co-stars, but he gives the naive, trusting Varla a great heart and a hilarious scene involving opera and cheese in a can. When it's funny, it's very funny. When it's in bad taste, it's even funnier. The sets and costumes (as you would expect) are all letter perfect and there are as many sight gags as there are funny lines. Need cheering up? Rent Girls Will Be Girls.Movie Review: Buy this DVD before Varla eats them all!
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this DVD in the previously viewed section of one of the local video stores for quite a while before I finally picked it up. It really didn't appeal to me at first, since I'm not into drag queens but then I saw the trailer at the beginning of the "Pieces of April" DVD and thought it looked pretty funny. I read the other reviews here and was convinced to buy it.
"Girls Will Be Girls" turned out to be a real hilarious movie and is now among my favorite DVD's. I've watched it a good half-dozen times since purchasing it last year and probably will again, very soon.
I recommend it to fans of one-liners and sarcasm but warn prudes against it, since some of the lines might be quite offensive to some. Then again, as Marla would say "Feelings are like treasures, so bury them."
Also, I'd advise against buying the Canadian edition, as it doesn't include the animated menus which contain some hilarious lines not featured in the movie not the featurettes. Since I'm in Canada, I ended up ordering the American version (and selling my other copy) just for those.
Enough said, now hit the "Add to Shopping Card" button!
P.S. You could also buy "Sordid Lives", while you're at it...
Movie Review: Brilliant. Witty. Dark. (very dark)
Summary: 5 Stars
If you, like my roommate and I, have a "nothing is sacred" sense of humor, and are able to laugh at even the most twisted subjects like drunk driving, abortion, rape, and dying pet dogs, you will absolutely LOVE this movie. We've watched it 4 times now, and still hear occasional lines we somehow missed the first few times around. The writing is absolutely brilliant. I'm obsessed with finding more scripts by the writer of this film, and hope like hell he does another film soon. Very few dark, campy comedies are this witty. If you enjoyed "Sordid Lives" you'll love this film. If you died laughing at the bathroom scene in "Trick" (with the Coco the drag queen and Gabriel) --you'll love this film. If your sense of humor is so dark, that you occasionally horrify some prude person with one of your jokes, you might as well skip renting it, and buy it now. I'm convinced that anyone who's given this movie a bad review is either 1) too prude to laugh at "taboo" subjects, or 2) doesn't know how to enjoy non-Hollywood-esque independent films. My roommate and all 5 of my gay friends laughed without holding back, from the beginning to the end. And if you like to drink, (who doesn't?) pour yourself a tall one. It'll make it even better.