Vardalos in big fat drag

Connie and Carla

Director: Michael Lembeck

Cast: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny

Cert: 12.

Don’t sneeze. This one’s so lightweight, it will blow away.

Vardalos, who wrote and starred in the successful My Big Fat Greek Wedding, has clearly run out of original thought, as this weak effort borrows too heavily and obviously from a string of previous hits - Some Like It Hot, most obviously, but also Priscilla, Thelma and Louise, Victor/Victoria and Sister Act.

Consider the plot. Two gals, Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Collette, and what is such a fine actress thinking about … other than the money), witness a mob slaying and take off for Los Angeles, where they disguise themselves as a couple of guys pretending to be gals in a drag act.

All goes well until a hetero hunk (Duchovny) turns up.

It’s a passable, ill-constructed, tired rehash of several much better films. It has a couple of good-ish moments, and clearly Ms Vardalos has much lost ground to regain if she is not to be remembered as a one-hit wonder.

Star Rating: 1/5