Movies: August 2004 Archives

Jeff and I both would encourage anyone who hasn’t seen Nia Vardalos’ “Connie & Carla”, newly out on DVD, to give it a whirl. When we saw it last spring, we were so utterly delighted at the funny, fanciful movie and fully expected the critics to rave and forgive her for the “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” TV show, re-anointing her as the talented writer/comedienne she is. Our dismay came when horrible, scathing reviews came out about “Connie & Carla” and the movie opened to an abysmal $2 million the first week, there by cementing its demise and dropping it off the cineplex’s marquees by the following week. Except that it’s funny and charming and is all about drag queens; drag queen movies being neck-and-neck with my other favorite film category, existential science fiction.

And it's got Toni Collette, for God’s sake. And it’s funny. And sure the message is obvious but it’s still a good, fun movie. So go see it.