Cherry Pop

I've never written a review before on a movie and I've seen a lot (good and bad). I cannot stress how awful this movie really was. After 5 minutes, I couldn't turn off the train wreck. Like my last relationship, I hung around hoping it would get better; it didn't. I need to re-evaluate my life's choices after this second major mistake. The only redemption this movie has are the bloopers in the credits. That's only because the acting wasn't forced but actually genuine.

I'm a huge fan of Drag Race, and couldn't wait to see this movie. Unfortunately, there were a lot of lines that were really disrespectful to women. The queens spend a scene talking about how disgusting a vagina is, sing a song making light of abortion (I'm pro-choice, but it is usually a seriously difficult situation), and just generally bash women. I'm all for men dressing in drag, especially to express femininity since our culture tells them to suppress that, but don't make fun of women, you still get to walk around the world as a man. Borrowing women's culture of dresses, makeup, shoes, hair, mannerism, etc., is fine, great even, but to be so disrespectful is not a good look.

Whose brilliant idea was it to make a movie about drag but make it about a straight guy doing drag for the first time (and effortlessly beating his face) while the actual drag queens are reduced to ham-fisted stereotypes? I could see glimmers of talent and the plot line is well constructed. But the final product is the pits.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say: if you are going to make a film about drag performance... include some phenomenal drag performances. It's not that hard to do. Yet this film manages to completely ignore showing them while at the same time trying to be an inspirational film about drag. I'd give it -10 if I could. It fails just on it's basic premise.

Hulu recommended me this movie and I only decided to watch it because Bob was in the center of the picture. What a waste. I was excited to see Detox, Bob, Patrice, and Mayhem (and they were great) but they can't make up for the terrible writing and lack of anything interesting in this movie. The cherry on top? The terrible, terrible acting from Lars Verge. Why do directors feel the need to cast mediocre male actors in lead roles when there are talented drag queens right THERE in front of you?