movie review - Drop Dead Gorgeous
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Sydney, 2000.07.30
Amusing, but somewhat too awkward to really fly. It's about a beauty pageant, and the dire deeds committed by certain parties attached to the event. And all of the fallout that follows. Beauty pageants are represented as they frequently are: the ultimate female cat-fight and also a place for leches to come crawling out of the woodwork. I think this thing is supposed to be a comedy but I don't think the writers play-tested their comedy before making this thing. Showing people with terrible wounds or self-inflicted illness isn't funny.
Not recommended. What can I say... Once in a while, my girlfriend chooses a movie despite my protestations. Is that fair? I don't know.