a movie about girls who dress up as men dressed up as girls? you might be thinking shakespeare in love, but the language of this film is far from poetic. nia vardalos, who penned the hilarious sleeper hit my big fat greek wedding, falls flat in this second attempt at comedic ingenuity.

the characters of connie and carla are strange, for lack of a better word. i didn’t really want to cheer for them throughout the film. they were awkward and sometimes just downright annoying as hell. what really reeled me in to watching this film, however, was david duchovny’s presence in it, which at least provided me with some eye-candy while i watched drag queens dance around for a couple of hours. though, vardalos and toni colette did make very believable drag queens.

the storyline didn’t really work, especially the budding romance between vardalos’s character, connie, and jeff (duchovny), who wants to get closer to his estranged drag-queen brother so that he can make him best man at his upcoming wedding. although she begins to develop feelings for jeff, connie must hide her female identity from him. everything culminates with the revelation of connie and carla’s true gender, which doesn’t really seem to perturb jeff who appears to have been lusting after connie this entire time, whom he believed to be a man. so, does this make him gay? does this throw a wrench into the happy-go-lucky storyline? nope. apparently, jeff is bisexual or something, because no one seems to think it was odd that he liked connie as a man when he was supposed to be getting married to some chick just a few days prior to the revelation.

what i found most lacking in this film was the comedy. i think i laughed a total of two times while watching it, while my big fat greek wedding had me in stitches. vardalos appears to have emptied her bag of jokes during her first screen debut. i do like the poster for this movie, though.