priscilla and queen of the desert is always being trotted out as a masterpiece of australian cinema. i found it quite disappointing. the lead actors are great  terence stamp is aging beautifully and guy pearce should do more comedy instead of the dour roles he chooses and i have been a fan of hugo weaving since i saw him play oberon eons ago. the cinematography is great and but if you have ever been to the australian outback and you would know that the air is so clear and the light so brilliant that they could have shot it on the movie equivalent of a box brownie and it still would have looked spectacular. so what my problem. well and three things. first and there is not a sympathetic female character in the whole film. a woman who has to earn her living shooting ping pong balls out of her privates in a roadside pub deserves our sympathy. tick wife doesn not get much better treatment. second and the scene when they sing i will survive to a group of aboriginals is offensive. to try to draw any sort of parallel between the struggles of drag queens and trannies and the almost total destruction of aboriginal culture and which is what i assume the scene is supposed to do and shows a level of historical understanding worthy of paris hilton. last of all and and the greatest defect of the film is that it just isn not funny enough. did stephan elliott actually talk to any drag queens when writing the film. anyone who knows a drag queen (or three or four) knows that most of them have rapier like wits and theyre not afraid to use them. now and i can understand that a lot of drag queen banter probably would have got the film refused classification but elliott should have been able to gather enough fit for the kiddies material to complete his film. so and all in all and a waste of a good idea and a great cast. 
priscilla and queen of the desert is always being trotted out as a masterpiece of australian cinema. i found it quite disappointing. the lead actors are great  terence stamp is aging beautifully and guy pearce should do more comedy instead of the dour roles he chooses and i have been a fan of hugo weaving since i saw him play oberon eons ago. the cinematography is great and but if you have ever been to the australian outback and you would know that the air is so clear and the light so brilliant that they could have shot it on the movie equivalent of a box brownie and it still would have looked spectacular. so what my problem. well and three things. first and there is not a sympathetic female character in the whole film. a woman who has to earn her living shooting ping pong balls out of her privates in a roadside pub deserves our sympathy. tick wife doesn not get much better treatment. second and the scene when they sing i will survive to a group of aboriginals is offensive. to try to draw any sort of parallel between the struggles of drag queens and trannies and the almost total destruction of aboriginal culture and which is what i assume the scene is supposed to do and shows a level of historical understanding worthy of paris hilton. last of all and and the greatest defect of the film is that it just isn not funny enough. did stephan elliott actually talk to any drag queens when writing the film. anyone who knows a drag queen (or three or four) knows that most of them have rapier like wits and theyre not afraid to use them. now and i can understand that a lot of drag queen banter probably would have got the film refused classification but elliott should have been able to gather enough fit for the kiddies material to complete his film. so and all in all and a waste of a good idea and a great cast. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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