Girls Will Be Girls...
is a hoot. Three drag queens play female roles, that is, the fact that these are male actors is never mentioned and the audience is expected to suspend disbelief on that count. For example, past pregnancies and abortions are referred to in the script, and one character becomes pregnant during the course of the film. Also, one character has a full-frontal nude scene with special effects that insert female body parts.
Still, these women have a campy, drag-queen sensibility that no woman I know adopts as their view of the world. This isn't just camp, but "High Camp."
My new friend Clinton Leupp -- Miss Coco Peru -- is one of the three, who plays the sincere and in some ways "innocent" role. The other two were unknown to me but both do great drag. "Evie" (Jack Plotnick) is the potty-mouth Bitch of All Bitches, and "Varla" (Jeffery Roberson) is so convincing as a woman that I didn't realize right away that this was another man-in-drag character.
Not a perfect movie by any means, the script is so sparse that it includes banners advertising the theme of the next segment; the movie is therefore a series of skits presented in chronological order. It's only 80 minutes long; had the banners been replaced by scenes tying one skit to the next, it would have reached the 90-minute duration that seems to be the norm these days.
The DVD is surprisingly well produced for such a low-budget picture. The menus have the main characters doing a little comic skit in which they talk to you as the audience ("Press my button to view the special features") and bicker among themselves, just as they do in the film. The featurettes include interviews with the stars and a piece showing how the make-up man designed each drag queen's face.
This is a movie to watch with friends while drinking (a lot). Get it, girl!
