The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert (DVD)

I had heard a lot about The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert so I was quite interested to see what it was all about. I wasn't sure if a film about three drag queens would be quite my cup of tea but I was quite happy to give it a go. Having just watched it on DVD I feel a bit ambiguous about how I felt about it but I will try and explain why. The film was made quite a while ago back in 1994 and stars Terence Stamp (Bernadette), Hugo Weaving (Mitzi/ Tick) and Guy Pearce k(Felicia/ Adam). They are three drag queens who, each for different reasons, want to get out of Sydney, so they agree to join forces and travel to Alice Springs (which is a bit like ...  Read the complete review

After reading a wonderful review about this film I just walked straight into my local Tesco ad bought the DVD, I knew exactly where it was as I had picked it up several times but was undecided over whether to watch it or not. The story is about 2 drag queens, Tick and Adam and their transsexual friend Bernadette. They get a gig in Alice Springs and so leave the comfort of their home town where they are accepted and liked and start on their journey through the Australia outback to reach this Hotel. The trio are using an old bus to do the journey but as it keeps breaking down they are not getting very far. Along the way the trio play in various bars ...  Read the complete review

This is a film only review. Three drag queens from Sydney, Felicia, Mitzi and Bernadette, are invited to perform a caberet in Alice Springs. Felicia manages to get hold of a bus (nicknamed Priscilla) that will take them on their journey of several days, but unfortunately, it breaks down on a regular basis, and it isn't always easy to find someone who will help them fix it - one mechanic takes a look at Mitzi in a dress and runs a mile! However, they find help in the most surprising of places and with the most surprising of people and, most of the time, enjoy themselves. Mitzi is concerned though; he has already broken it to his friends that he has a wife, but ...  Read the complete review

Many years ago when this film was launched in the UK I was lucky enough to see it three times! I went along myself, got taken to it by a friend and then another friend asked me to go along another time. I remember distinctly a trailer shot of a certain Terence Stamp trying to flog his organic potato crisps, but this may have been at the start or end of the film. Whichever it was, I don't think it ever had any relevance to the film but it has remained a memory from going to the cinema to watch it! (The Adventures of) Priscilla Queen of the Desert takes some beating in terms of a film that has three predominantly heterosexual actors and turns them into the ...  Read the complete review

Exactly the sort of film Hollywood can't make - see the Swazye in drag fiasco. This intelligently made film from Australia stars Terence Stamp as an aging transexual, Guy Pearce (Neighbours) and Hugo Weaving as two Sydney drag queens. The basic plot - Weaving aka Mitzi has to arrange a four week cabaret booking for a club in Alice Springs. He recruits his friends, Bernadette, (Stamp) and Felicia (Pearce) to join him. They buy an old school bus (Priscilla), fill it full of gaudy frocks, towering head-dresses, a million and one backing tracks - and off they go. Their desert journey alternates between quiet discoveries - like the fact that the club ...  Read the complete review