Connie and Carla

It was our last day here in Singapore, and since we had already did so much window shopping, and not forgetting furniture hunting yesterday at Park Mall, we decided to have a look around Orchard Road area, and maybe catch a movie before our flight home.

And since we missed the Shrek 2 show in KL, we were hoping we would be able to catch it here in Singapore, but to no avail.

So, the next best thing was to catch this movie Connie and Carla, starring Nia Vardalos (that girl from My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and Toni Colette (who was the boy's mother in Six Sense - "I see dead people..!" - and also as the female lead in Muriel's Wedding).

True to its promise in its trailer promo, the movie was filled with showtunes, done ala Broadway in a funny way of course.

In short, it could be simply summed up as a mix of Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon's Some Like it Hot and Julie Andrew's Victor/Victoria, but with unfortunately less comedy impact as the former.

In fact, their effort to glamorize the drag show performance did fall a bit flat, when they tried to emulate the success of sing-along session of Julia Roberts' My Best Friend Wedding (when everybody burst out singing joining Rupert Everett's number), but this time, all the gay audiences in the drag bar sing whole-heartedly to 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina', complete with diva-esque choreographed movements a-la the Village People's 'Y.M.C.A'. Unfortunately, the whole thing felt awfully flat, which might had been improved should they had chosen a better song probably.

Anyway, despite the little flaw which didn't mar the whole movie, we still had a good time watching it. And Toni Colette certainly did a good convincing job acting like a drag queen. For a start, she really looked like one, especially with all those heavy make up and costume! :-)