Main Characters: --------------------- Bernadette: Terence Stamp Mitzi: Hugo Weaving Felicia: Guy Pearce Plot: ------ The film is all about three drag queens who are travelling to Alice Springs in a tour bus to perform a show. They all want to get out of Sydney for all manner of reasons, so they team up and travel together. There are a lot of obstacles in their way, but their spirits never die! My Opinion: --------------- This film for me was amazing. Although it doesn't have any special effects, it doesn't need any. It's a very bright and cheerful feel-good film which will have you smiling, ...  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

I have always been a fan of the road movie genre, there is something about a road movie that creates a desire to replicate such an event, maybe it is the whole freedom of the road bit or the sense of adventure that you feel when you do not know what is around the next corner, whatever it is I do know that The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert has a unique take on the whole road movie thing and is an excellent movie and very enjoyable. The plot is all about three drag queens who are travelling from Sydney to Alice Springs which is the remote township pretty much in the middle of Australia. Terence Stamp stars as Bernadette while his travel companions ...  Read the complete review

As a fan of Australian films, I went to the cinema when this film first came out. It is one of the best films I have seen - definitely in my top 10 - and was so good that I went back to see it again...and again...and again! I saw it a total of over 10 times in the cinema and bought it as soon as it was available on video. It is the story of 3 drag queens - 2 transvestites, and a transexual - who, each with their own reason for going, make a trip from Sydney to Alice Springs in a bus which they name Priscilla. Along the way they meet different people with different reactions to their way of performing - acceptance, slight dislike to extreme dislike to the ...  Read the complete review