Good cast, decent acting and good production values.
However, the story is a mess and makes no sense. In several slow and repetitive scenes we learn that the small-town main character Dylan mourns her deceased dancer mother and reluctantly goes to the city to audition for a dance troupe at the urging of grandma. Grandma got the month wrong (Dylan at no point having googled the auditions for exact dates, times, addresses, and other required info) but the cleaner at the reception area needs someone to fill in so offers Dylan a job as a cleaner at a nightclub where she can watch and learn from drag queens rehearsing. For some weird reason Dylan takes this cleaner job and tells her family the auditions are proceeding. On arriving for her first shift the frustrated choreographer Victor instantly decides he needs someone to help him imagine the moves so asks Dylan to pose on stage for him - where she reveals she is a dancer. What? Victor is a dancer/choreographer but knows no other dancer he can call on? Victor quickly decides the show needs Dylan and the very petite and feminine Dylan, who knows nothing about drag or gay men, spends 10 minutes making herself over into a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman, in an underdeveloped Victor/Victoria reworking.
The constant hair over the face, back-to-camera, abrupt editing of Dylan's dance routines is to hide the dance double but is very distracting and ruins the dance scenes.
I am not sure how Dylan saved the show. There is a cool routine where each drag performer does a solo bit then Dylan arrives for her bit. But each performer was great on their own and Dylan didn't suddenly teach them those miming, hair, makeup, costume, dance and drag skills. They clearly were all pretty good performers already.
The drag queens convince Dylan to return to the show but then she's cast in a different show with the drag queens watching the rehearsal of it, while a dubbed in line helpfully suggests Dylan can do both shows.
Aside from that there are many ideas hinted at but only lightly explored, and the story leaves many loose ends.
Research: Dame Edna is not a drag queen but a character who happens to be a woman, conceived in 1956 and performed by Australian-born comedian Barry Humphries. Humphries moved to London in 1959. Starting in 1969 his character Edna appeared in London stage shows and later did UK TV shows, and later US and Australian stage tours, TV and movies. Edna did not do "drag" mime and dance performances as such. Edna's appearances were winding down by 2013. Victor says he and Dylan worked with Dame Edna doing drag shows "in Australia". The story, location, timelines make no sense, yet the drag queens and Victor's partner all believe it and are impressed by it.
However, the story is a mess and makes no sense. In several slow and repetitive scenes we learn that the small-town main character Dylan mourns her deceased dancer mother and reluctantly goes to the city to audition for a dance troupe at the urging of grandma. Grandma got the month wrong (Dylan at no point having googled the auditions for exact dates, times, addresses, and other required info) but the cleaner at the reception area needs someone to fill in so offers Dylan a job as a cleaner at a nightclub where she can watch and learn from drag queens rehearsing. For some weird reason Dylan takes this cleaner job and tells her family the auditions are proceeding. On arriving for her first shift the frustrated choreographer Victor instantly decides he needs someone to help him imagine the moves so asks Dylan to pose on stage for him - where she reveals she is a dancer. What? Victor is a dancer/choreographer but knows no other dancer he can call on? Victor quickly decides the show needs Dylan and the very petite and feminine Dylan, who knows nothing about drag or gay men, spends 10 minutes making herself over into a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman, in an underdeveloped Victor/Victoria reworking.
The constant hair over the face, back-to-camera, abrupt editing of Dylan's dance routines is to hide the dance double but is very distracting and ruins the dance scenes.
I am not sure how Dylan saved the show. There is a cool routine where each drag performer does a solo bit then Dylan arrives for her bit. But each performer was great on their own and Dylan didn't suddenly teach them those miming, hair, makeup, costume, dance and drag skills. They clearly were all pretty good performers already.
The drag queens convince Dylan to return to the show but then she's cast in a different show with the drag queens watching the rehearsal of it, while a dubbed in line helpfully suggests Dylan can do both shows.
Aside from that there are many ideas hinted at but only lightly explored, and the story leaves many loose ends.
Research: Dame Edna is not a drag queen but a character who happens to be a woman, conceived in 1956 and performed by Australian-born comedian Barry Humphries. Humphries moved to London in 1959. Starting in 1969 his character Edna appeared in London stage shows and later did UK TV shows, and later US and Australian stage tours, TV and movies. Edna did not do "drag" mime and dance performances as such. Edna's appearances were winding down by 2013. Victor says he and Dylan worked with Dame Edna doing drag shows "in Australia". The story, location, timelines make no sense, yet the drag queens and Victor's partner all believe it and are impressed by it.