Nia Vardalos should have cut right to the chase and named the characters Lucy and Ethel.
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04/24/04
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Connie and Carla (2004)
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Reviews Counted:119
Fresh:52
Rotten:67
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: The two female leads, as well as energitic musical numbers, enliven an otherwise silly reworking of Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot.
Theatrical Release:Apr 16, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $7,976,065
Synopsis: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette and David Duchovny star in Spyglass Entertainment Production's comedy Connie and Carla. Vardalos and Collette play Connie and Carla, two struggling Chicago dinner... [More]
Starring: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Stephen Spinella
Director: Michael Lembeck
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Reviews for Connie and Carla
Connie and Carla reminded me of two Whoopi Goldbergs in Sister Act, and I don’t mean that in a bad way.
04/23/04
[Vardalos] never met a bad joke she doesn’t love, never met a stereotype she won’t exaggerate to a breaking point... and can’t seem to get past a sitcom mentality.
04/23/04
...Vardalos rains on her own parade, dragging in a three-course meal of saccharine subplots involving a dishy straight guy (David Duchovny).
04/22/04
I still don’t understand how the movie’s central gimmick relates to its setup.
04/22/04
There are funny moments ... but the film grows progressively more dispirited.
04/22/04
Vardalos is Patrick Swayze to Collette's Hugo Weaving.
04/22/04
So cliché-ridden and obvious that any sparks the performers may have are quickly smothered in dullness.
04/21/04
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04/21/04
There doesn’t seem to be much here that comedy director Michael Lembeck could save; it's a lopsided script laced with flat-footed humor and lazy characterization.
04/21/04
A flat, predictable and unbelievable movie that mostly seems an excuse for Vardolos to perform a bunch of show tunes and make faces at the camera.
04/21/04
This contemporary version of "Some Like it Hot" is mostly, well, a drag.
04/19/04
Vardalos-Collette won't supplant memories of Lemmon-Curtis, but you could do worse.
04/19/04
... just awful.
04/19/04
Top CriticNia Vardalos, Toni Collette, and David Duchovny are the stars of a new comedy from Universal Pictures.
04/19/04
I went into the theater tired and dragging and emerged singing a show tune and smiling. I hope you'll have the same reaction.
04/18/04
In director Michael Lembeck’s disjointed gender-bender musical comedy Connie and Carla, the mediocrity oozes out much like the intolerable sounds from a rusty trumpet
04/18/04
Maybe I'm enough of a sucker for Toni Collette or maybe it was my forgiving approach to the concept, but it provided me enough laughs and chuckles to call it entertainment.
04/17/04
Plays like a watchable sitcom, sporadically amusing but without enough material to warrant being feature-length.
04/17/04
plays like amateur hour on the backlot
04/17/04
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