Connie and Carla
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  • Summary: Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Colette) are two small-town girls whose dreams of stardom have taken them nowhere. In a new place, with new identities, they create a cover (with a lot of cover-up) that makes them the toast of the town -- headlining in a local drag club, they soon find the acclaim that has always eluded them, singing the show tunes they've always loved. (Universal Pictures)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 30
  3. Negative: 6 out of 30
  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    83
    It's the chemistry between Vardalos and Collette that gives the film its magical dazzle. Despite Vardalos' ingratiating, big and breathy presence, Collette, as the pulse and conscience of these two dreamers, very nearly steals the film.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    67
    The surprise -- and intermittent delight -- of Connie and Carla is the way that it taps into the everybody-is-a-star passion of the new sing-along culture.
  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    63
    The chief appeal of this affectionate story is its embrace of those who are not thinner, richer and more glamorous than the moviegoers.
  4. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    50
    Isn't really a movie but a blatant girls' night out vehicle.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    40
    Veteran TV director Michael Lembeck slides the movie into a sitcom mode that only further deadens the thin material. While Vardalos and Collette shine in the musical numbers, why didn't he bother to give the musical sequences a bit of pizzazz?
  6. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    40
    Seems as much an imposter in the drag-queen world as its heroines; it fronts the sort of safely asexual gay characters found on network TV.
  7. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: David Ng
    10
    One suspects Vardalos's movies aren't written as much as up-chucked, the result of all-night binges on SnackWells and Oxygen network reruns.

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  1. gagaforever
    Oct 1, 2010
    10
    One of my favorite movies. I love the Drag Queens!!! They are so cool and full of confidence and they story is amazing also. I don't understand how anyone can not love this movie… Expand
  2. vikitoriaish
    Sep 3, 2011
    10
    fantastic film i love it...
    looks like Did You Hear About the Morgans? a fantastic comedy with Nia Vardalos my favourite actress and then made â

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