kathrynboyt I whiled away a Sunday afternoon with this movie (it was playing as I did other things)From the casting list, I was expecting greatness as I watched the RuPaul Royalty strut their stuff on the screen, after all, the cast list includes Latrice Royale, Tempest DuJour and Bob the Drag Queen to name just a few, these are Drag Queens that I know are very funny and tremendously talented.So what's wrong with it? Well, dry script, a protagonist that I personally found hard to like - I think the viewer is supposed to sympathise with his dream of being a performer/singer. And a few toilet humour jokes - one queen actually throws up on stage during a song where she's lip-syncing about what she does when she *ahem* soils herself. Actually, can I ask who wrote these songs and how old they were to think the songs were funny? The other songs (all sung by the same voice actress, by the way) include "I can't have this baby right now", "I hate you, white bitch". They pretty much go on in that sort of vein, until the Protagonist does his solo of a straightforward, traditional 'Ave Maria' That said, it had it's entertaining moments. The one that sticks out at the moment is Tempest Dujour as the aging, headlining act of the club, Lady Zaza who, having lost her partner a few months before the film takes place, and now, having "lost the will to tuck", spends her time locked away in her dressing room, playing sad music whilst melodramatically looking in to the mirror, loudly bemoaning her loss to reflection (and the audience) before writing a suicide letter that's 8+ pages long, stating in it that that she doesn't like long goodbyes.The film is 79 minutes long and during that time I was expecting to see some character development, other films have managed it in that time, but instead it just sort of trailed off and didn't seem to have a real ending, unless you count more of the protagonist's dispassionate narration about what everyone got up to after his night at the club was over. Maybe if it'd taken place over several nights, as a series rather than a film, we could have got to know the characters a bit more, as it was, everything felt squashed in.It's honestly not the worst film I've ever seen but it could have been amazing.

mdhalljr Seriously, this movie features some of the best Drag Race queens in herstory but doesn't do a damn thing with them. How can a move featuring Bob The Drag Queen and Detox not be good? We get almost and a half of endless explanations of each character in freeze frame format with endless boring monologues by the "Cherry" of their background and motivations. Show us, don't tell us!Then the drag performances are over-dubbed by the same person singing each song. It was funny the first song (barely) then a complete bore by the 2nd song.I feel this movie was written for the un-charismatic lead "Cherry" to give him a springboard for his career or maybe he's partnered to the writer and they wanted to give him a starring role.Then he literally almost gay bashes the queens with his awesome straightness just because the drag queens roasted the hell out of him. What an embarrassment because you know Detox would had beat his ass in real life.Then we get to see the Cherry come out on stage and look completely awkward. Remember how Gene Hackman looked in drag in The Birdcage? This is worse.

xatian11968 SPOILERS! The Best performance of Ave Maria you'll hear this year.This delightfully care free film by screenwriter Nick Landa is warm and comfortable throughout. Along with its inviting cinematography this film is a fun one for those with an evening to relax and laugh - you want to visit this place, if not for its lively backstage drama. And at the height of its success, is the performance by Lars Berge, a newcomer to film, but certainly not to song. Cherry Pop is not the film you may think it is. And although it rests squarely in a dive drag bar just off and on the other side of the railroad tracks, don't let that distract you, this story is honest as it is frank in what is the 'always on going battle' between gay and straight community. The cast performance did a fabulous job, each delivering a real experience that didn't border on gay or straight stereotype – surely most everyone was in drag, but this film was full of the community that exists outside the dressing room and off the stage. The ladies-in-drag's talent off-screen translated into delivered performances, of performers, just trying to get on with their lives. Their costuming was done with taste and flamboyance, which can be missing on Main Street. For those of you, unfamiliar with stellar 'drag queens', these contributing actors in Cherry Pop make the pop that becomes this cherry. But this film isn't so much about the drag queens, and really is, much more a PFLaG convention, seen from the "P" and the "F" vantage, and not so much the LaG (which may confuse the lgbtq folk, but doubt not in Nick Landa). Nick Landa's story and his success in Cherry Pop is that he has taken the discussion full circle, where straight males and drag queens, doting mothers and frustrated sons, find some middle ground. This film is also a great love story, about lost love, current love, and love that comes and goes. But Nick Landa has presented a plausible question for all of us, as Allusia Alusia's Dellusia's fashion forward approach in her role presents. On the other hand, Nick Landa has reminded us that a dedicated partner will see us through to the end, and the love that Lars Berge's Cherry shares in music and life will see mainstream heterosexual drag films relegated to the outdated bin. The treatment the story receives by Director Assaad Yacoub is a fresh take on an old story, and the story Screenwriter Nick Landa invites you on is "an experience", and much of it will have you saying, this is a film even Ann Coulter would enjoy. 'Benedicta tu in mulieribus' – blessed art Thou among women. Cheers!

ksf-2 Where To Begin....I try to be kind to LGBT films, but this one was originally a 30 minute short script, stretched out to a full length film. Some funny bits... mean drag queens, picking on the straight guys, in a drag queen lip-synch nightclub. Lars Berge is "the cherry", a brand new (straight boy) act trying out at the club, where the established acts are catty, as expected. A fun song... "Thanks for sticking it in me!" Although I must say... Waaaaayy too much time spent on Zaza, who does the "Birdcage" bit where she simply can't go on for a myriad of stupid reasons. That got annoying quickly. Some fourth wall stuff... like speaking to the camera, but then suddenly the others can hear it also. It's entertaining, and a fun caper, but the script needed more meat on it. There's a funny bit during the out-takes, which I won't give away, but stick around to the very end... its pretty funny. Directed by Assaad Yacoub, who has written and directed several films. Written by Nick Landa. Currently showing on netflix.