This film is about "girls pretending to be guys pretending to be girls". Connie (Nia Vardalos) and best friend Carla (Toni Collette) are show-tune performers who get themselves mixed up with the Chicago mob-scene when they witness their boss get shot by mob-boss Rudy (Robert John Burke). The girls now have to go into hiding and choose the perfect place where these criminals wont even think to look for them... someplace where there's "no culture whatsoever"...Los Angeles!
The laying low is going well until the girls get a familiar itch to perform... and audition for at the only place where cabaret is applauded... a drag queen bar. Connie and Carla, as drag queens, blow their audience away and are hired. But, of course, the crooks are still after them....
Nia Vardalos hasn't been doing so great. Her 2002 hit "My big fat Greek wedding" was followed by her 2003 series flop "my big fat Greek life", and the funny-Greek-gal who everyone thought would shoot to stardom has made little impact on Hollywood. Connie and Carla wont help her career any, I'm afraid to say. The jokes are all pretty slap-stick, cringe-worthy and ultimately fall-flat. The storyline drags (pun intended!) on for way too long, with a running time of 98 minutes in which watching Vardalos and Collette uglyfying themselves becomes almost excruciating.
David Duchovny plays Jeff, estranged brother to one of the girls drag-queen friends, Robert (Stephen Spinella) and love interest to Vardalos. Duchovny, who hasn't been on the Hollywood scene it seems, since the X-files finale needs to stretch his legs a little more before entering into the business. He gives a cardboard-cutout, dead-pan performance. Somebody needs to tell him he isn't Mulder anymore.
Collette's overly-bubbly and electric Carla is less entertaining and more annoying. It's really quite sad, she went from the masterpiece "Japanese Story" to the horrendous and gawdy "Connie and Carla". Maybe she's trying to show her versatility.... but more likely it was just poor judgment.
This film is honestly a let-down. Don't bother. Not even the songs performed are worth the watch.... the girls don't sing popular and well-known songs... so even that's a disappointment. 2/10.
The laying low is going well until the girls get a familiar itch to perform... and audition for at the only place where cabaret is applauded... a drag queen bar. Connie and Carla, as drag queens, blow their audience away and are hired. But, of course, the crooks are still after them....
Nia Vardalos hasn't been doing so great. Her 2002 hit "My big fat Greek wedding" was followed by her 2003 series flop "my big fat Greek life", and the funny-Greek-gal who everyone thought would shoot to stardom has made little impact on Hollywood. Connie and Carla wont help her career any, I'm afraid to say. The jokes are all pretty slap-stick, cringe-worthy and ultimately fall-flat. The storyline drags (pun intended!) on for way too long, with a running time of 98 minutes in which watching Vardalos and Collette uglyfying themselves becomes almost excruciating.
David Duchovny plays Jeff, estranged brother to one of the girls drag-queen friends, Robert (Stephen Spinella) and love interest to Vardalos. Duchovny, who hasn't been on the Hollywood scene it seems, since the X-files finale needs to stretch his legs a little more before entering into the business. He gives a cardboard-cutout, dead-pan performance. Somebody needs to tell him he isn't Mulder anymore.
Collette's overly-bubbly and electric Carla is less entertaining and more annoying. It's really quite sad, she went from the masterpiece "Japanese Story" to the horrendous and gawdy "Connie and Carla". Maybe she's trying to show her versatility.... but more likely it was just poor judgment.
This film is honestly a let-down. Don't bother. Not even the songs performed are worth the watch.... the girls don't sing popular and well-known songs... so even that's a disappointment. 2/10.