Directed by: Jamie Babbit
85 minutes
Superstarrs:
Natasha Leonne (american Pie, party monster), Clea Du Vall (Girl interruped, the grudge, 21 grams), out of drag RuPaul (I love you RuPaul!!!), Melanie Lynskey (Sweet home alabama, coyote ugly, everafter).....
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Step One: Admit you're a homosexual.
I like this movie because it starts off as kinda annoying in that sugary 1950's, everything's aiight in the world kinda way and then, because I had no idea what direction the movie was going to go, everything made sense and I figured it out. I do recall saying something like 'ahhh I get it now'. Took me a second.
So, Natasha Leonne's character Megan is just your ordinary average christian cheerleader. She's got good grades, she's dating a star football player, and she's popular. I wouldn't be suprised if she baked cookies and rescued animals from burning buildings either. She's just *that* perfect.
Unfortunately, unbeknownst to her, her parents and her friends have noticed something a bit...strange about her. Quickly everyone gathers together for an intervetion technique.
Straight is Great!
That's right folks, she gets sent to True Directions, a gay gone straight rehabilitation program, structured to get the gay out of kids before they get sent into the real world.
The pure rediculousness and total utter stereotypes is hilarious and the way the stepping programm is set up is crazy. Hooray group therapy! Hooray root problems! Men and women should be in traditional roles, something gone astray is the cause of homosexuality. It's all confusion.
But there's underlying conflicts. People shouldn't lie about who they are, but everyone's doing it so they don't get disowned by their parents. Even still love develops, and we learn that there's an 'underground homo railroad' run by two ex ex True Direction kids. These guys take the kids out clubbing so they can relax and just be who they are.
RuPaul is head of the male sector and I love him. That's about that. Nothing like seeing one of the world's biggest drag queens, out of drag, teaching gay boys how to be manly. (crotch adjust).
The overall moral of this movie, once you get over the utter sillyness of the stereotypes (totally funny), and the annoying bell music, and natasha leonne's hairdo.... is 'Just be yourself'. Don't lie to fit into society. You are your own person.
3 halo's 2 pitchforks.
Posted by prism at November 9, 2004 11:02 PMThis was a funny movie! I enjoyed Cathy Moriarity's performance as the leader of the camp who's son went through the program "successfully."
yeah... 'successfully'. bwah ha ha. Talk about supressedness or repressingness or whatever that word is.
Posted by: Prism at November 11, 2004 01:31 AM