Our Rating: 2.50
If the WB had a queer sister channel, here’s what its programming might look like. Happily sequestered at theater camp, a group of high-school drag queens and fag hags find their cherished summer hang turned topsy-turvy by the arrival of a dreamy straight boy who instantly becomes the subject of all their fantasies. (The movie does a pretty good job of objectifying him, too.) A handful of awfully catchy original songs highlight the movie’s warmed-over Sondheim-isms, but the “dramatic” portion of this kinda-satirical, kinda-not production is strictly amateur-hour. The plotting and performances are so rarely on the same page that the moments of motivational lucidity seem to have been arrived at almost by accident.)
This article appears in Aug 20-26, 2003.