Connie and Carla 2004

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: So predictable that you could have probably entered the words 'drag,' 'show tunes,' 'hapless Russian goon' and 'big-hearted broads' into a screenwriting software program and a script like this one would have printed out. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: The movie is a throwback, unapologetically silly but a little more fun than sophisticated audiences may anticipate. Read more

Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: Pleasurable but uneven. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Connie and Carla is one of those movies that sneaks up on you, in spite of yourself. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... just awful. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: You'll have a gay ol' time, no matter what your gender preference. Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Connie and Carla may not be as exciting as a Greek wedding, but it's still worth reserving a table up front. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A magnificent absurdity. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Boldly reworking the Some Like It Hot plot, with a nod to Victor/Victoria and La Cage aux Folles, Vardalos has come up with a crowd-pleaser that is entirely her own. Read more

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Michael Booth, Denver Post: Despite too much of nearly everything, Connie and Carla is a mostly enjoyable comedy that at its core showcases a rare thing for a studio movie: a true beating heart. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The surprise -- and intermittent delight -- of Connie and Carla is the way that it taps into the everybody-is- a-star passion of the new sing-along culture. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Connie and Carla not only celebrates amateurism but indulges in it. Read more

Ed Bark, Dallas Morning News: Connie and Carla is exuberant, all right, and amusing in spots. It's also hokey, pokey, predictable and clumsily preachy in its head-over-heels declaration that gay men are people, too. Read more

Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: There are funny moments ... but the film grows progressively more dispirited. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: The film is so consistently funny and musical it doesn't matter whom Vardalos is ripping off. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The only drag is this picture. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: The whole enterprise is scrubbed clean of the very quirks such a comedy craves. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The brassy cross-dressing farce Connie and Carla shows that Hollywood still gets the jitters about gender-bending. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: An infectiously funny farce in the Some Like it Hot, Victor/Victoria tradition. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Isn't really a movie but a blatant girls' night out vehicle. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Someone should tell Vardalos this is well-trod territory. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The film is as long on classic show tunes as it is short on new ideas. Read more

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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Connie And Carla never manages to rise above the airport-lounge aesthetic of its title characters. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: For all of Wedding's mediocrity, Connie and Carla is even more of a drag. Read more

David Rooney, Variety: In all departments, Collette is far more nuanced, her timing sharper and her comic skills more inventive than her co-star's nonetheless vivacious, appealing performance, but the camaraderie between the two is infectious. Read more

David Ng, Village Voice: The phrase 'written by Nia Vardalos' should send any self-respecting moviegoer screaming into the night, pursued by the comedienne's frizzy-haired brand of hysteria and the brain meltdown it inevitably induces. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It may not be subtle, but, like drag itself, Connie and Carla affords a few corny, if artless, pleasures. Read more