Connie and Carla (2004)

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Connie (NIA VARDALOS) and Carla (TONI COLLETTE) are two small-town girls whose dreams of stardom have taken them nowhere. From their debut in a school cafeteria to their current gig slinging drinks and belting out tunes at a Midwestern airport lounge, the singing and dancing

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Like an extra large pizza, "Connie and Carla" is broad and cheesy, yet it is not utterly without a kind of junk-food appeal. Exactly how broad is this "Some Like It Hot"-inspired comedy about a pair of second-rate singers who pose as male drag queens in order to hide from a mobster named Rudy?

The premise is strikingly similar to Victor/Victoria, with My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s Nia Vardalos as the singing and dancing lead character. Unlike its much better predecessor, C and C is a sluggish and unfunny mess where its gaiety gets lost in an unneeded, heavy-handed melodrama. 

--David Levine (FilmCritic.com)

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The cheerfully inane comedy "Connie and Carla" all but suffocates beneath a high-stepping, show-stopping, ear-splitting deluge of musical theater staples, from "Cats" to "Oklahoma!," "Jesus Christ Superstar" to "Fiddler on the Roof." 

--Megan Lehmann (New York Post)

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Nia Vardalos and Toni Collette sing. They dance. They dress up as drag queens. The movie all but shouts: "You go, girl!"

--Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)

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Comes across as more of a short sketch rather than a feature length film. C

--Gareth Von Kallenbach (Lee's Movie Info)

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The brassy cross-dressing farce ''Connie and Carla'' shows that Hollywood still gets the jitters about gender-bending. Forgetting that a daily parade of sexual and sartorial hybrids troops through the country's living rooms on shows like Jerry Springer's, it exhibits Hollywood's usual two-faced attitude when dealing with gender and sexual role-playing.

--Stephen Holden (The New York Times)

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"Connie and Carla" plays like a genial amateur theatrical, the kind of production where you'd like it more if you were friends with the cast. The plot is creaky, the jokes are laborious, and total implausibility is not considered the slightest problem. Written by and starring Nia Vardalos, it's a disappointment after her hilarious "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) Connie and Carla are so focused on themselves that everyone else’s life is expendable. This film could have risen above its shallow depth if there had been at least a glimpse of reality in the outcome of their choices. That is the difference between a cartoon and a real comedy.  --Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin (Cinema in Focus) As with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Vardalos turns her eye on a community for the effect of a soft, faintly exploitative humor, but not an empathetic one.  --Kimberley Jones (Austin Chronicle)

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