Movies: Bam Bam & Celeste

I was going to include this movie in my last big movie post but I just loved it so much it deserved a blog of its own so I could go on and gush about it for years!

Bam Bam & Celeste (2005)

I just have to say this is the kind of movie that I enjoy immensely. It's got all these similar elements of Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion (which we will all admit is probably the single best teen comedy film that doesn't feature teens in the slightest ever!) Yep, to my delight we have the famed "I'm forty but i'm going to play a teenage character" approach. Then they age, but only to their early twenties so you're just sitting there wandering WHY!? but loving it sick at the same time. It also features the classic road trip motif which is generally a winner, with whacky encounters showcasing a myriad of cameos! And it's just the biggest camp fest that actually succeeds at entertaining - not too crass, but not without it's shameless sexual innuendo. Oh, and the best of all it's an All Star B-List Celebrity Fave Fest. I'll just take a moment to reflect on its sub-par celebrity awesomeness: Obviously, Margaret Cho, who also wrote the script and stars as her character Celeste as well as her mother, Mommy (which leads us to another stint of comic excellence - with the broken English and whatnot. I was conflicted though cause I started thinking of that whole post-modern racism as humour but I decided to ditch the debbie dodo and submit to my carnal amusements). Then we had Elaine Hendrix playing the bitchy popular girl (for those n00bs, she's one of the cool girls from Romy & Michelle - the one that turns her tragic life around and becomes an editor at Vogue and ends up 'not that bad'), Kathy Najimy has a random cameo as this clairvoyant - reminiscent of her witchy days, the ever-fabulous Alan Cumming playing an incidentally dull role but my favourite is Jane Lynch who plays this big lesbian hick with a mullet!

So, Bam Bam & Celeste, who are besties in that classic Gay and Fag hag dynamic, decide to drive to New York to compete in a game show where friends transfer fugly people beautiful because as it turns out, Bam Bam (being a gay) is some extraordinary beautician/stylist/hairdresser/general gay. That's the basic plot gist and the rest writes itself. Basically, it's all sorts of hysterical cliche's but somehow subverted? is that a thing? can you subvert cliches? in film? It's probs so obvious and I'm probably so tired the quarter of a brain that I have refuses to function! Oh, and its all full of anachronisms! I'll let you spot them for yourself! It's no fun if someone tells them to you!

I am so tickled by this film that I think I will share it with ya'll whoever reads this business.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WDSWDGD2

So, I really may be blowing the horn of this alleged amazing movie which to you may seem like a mourning rendition of the last post by an inexperienced trumpet player complete with honks and the imfamous brassy timbre BUT give it a go and if you find it to be a larf let me know! I might share more stuff!

I might add! If I have persuaded you of any other film I've been talking of and you don't know how to sink your dirty mitts into them, you can ask me politely and i'll upload it for ya! :)