Connie and Carla looks like 1959's Some Like Hot with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. it's the same story. they witness murders and flee chicago, except of cousre Connie and carla are girls dressed as guys and girls.
shareSeems that way to me too... Even prompted me to check the writing credits to see if it said anything like "Based on...".
shareI was just thinking sounds exactly like "Some Like it Hot," my favorite movie! I wonder what hottie will play the Monroe-esque character (though male, of course) who forces one of the girls to revert back to girlness! I'm looking forward to seeing it, thought I can't help but think I'll be disappointed, especially after all the stories I've heard about Vardalos's prima-donna attitude.
shareIt looks like David Duchovny will play the Marilyn Monroe character.
I initially thought nothing in terms of a remake, 'cause there are so many "posing as opposite sex" movies, until I heard the two women are on the run after witnessing a crime. If that's not Some Like it Hot redux, I don't know what is.
It has a lot of "Some Like It Hot," sure, but with a
major dollop of "Victor/Victoria," too. The woman
pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman is straight
out of V/V, which was a remake of a German version of
the same story if I recall correctly. So I'd call it
a blend rather than a remake.
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It sounds a lot like Victor Victoria as well.
shareBut see, Ocean's 11 was never touted as an original, despite it being an obvious remake.
Connie and Carla, looks exactly like Some Like it Hot, yet they call it an original.
That's where the debate comes in. We're not denying anybody the right to remake a film. As long as they state, from the begining, that it is, in fact, a remake, not disguised as an original screenplay.
now, slightly off subject, leaving the Some Like it Hot similarities aside, this looks like a terrible film. I hated Greek Wedding, i thought it was terrible. I don't see what the big deal is about Nia Vardalos. "Oh my god, she started out in theatre, then wrote a screenplay and made the successful move to film!"
There are so many other great and talented stage-to-screen performers, that there is nothing special about this one. she had a mediocre movie, that was spun-off into a god-awful television show. She isn't that funny. And remaking a classic comedy, and then claiming it as an original, is just wrong.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. (Look at me, I'm Nia Vardalos, i came up with that line all by myself)
I credit Dennis Miller with that line.
Repent, the end is extremely fu*king nigh!
When I saw the trailer, I immediately thought - "This is Victor/Victoria meets Some Like it Hot"...both amazing stories, and they deserve to be credited. For Nia Vardalos to say that this is an original screenplay is absurd.
shareAnd guess what it doesn't matter. The critics seem to like it.
<<Two funny moments in the film are the Martha Stewart prison stripes collection comment and Jeff finding Connie’s tampon. Hmmm… what an explanation.>>>>>>
Mini Reviews from BellaOnline.com (spoilers)
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It's interesting that the reviewer indicates that two of the funniest moments belong to David....
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Connie and Carla - Nia Vardalos Toni Collette David Duchovny
Romantic Comedy Review of Connie and Carla
Connie and Carla stars Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette and David Duchovny
Connie and Carla opens nationwide on April 16, 2004.
In a far far away world, also known as the middle school cafeteria, two best friends, Connie (played by Nia Vardalos in her first big screen role since “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”) and Carla (played by The Six Sense’s Toni Collette), get their start as dinner theater performers. Despite all the ridicule, Connie and Carla grew up and continued to perform in airport lounges and dinner theaters.
One night, a Russian mafia drug dealer murders the owner of the dinner theater in front of them. They become eye witnesses to the murder and leave Chicago for Los Angeles, a city they think no one will find them because it has no dinner theaters therefore also meaning it is no class or culture.
Connie and Carla move into a furnished apartment in West Hollywood and start their lives over. Neither of them can find a job. While out dancing at The Handle Bar, the girls realize they are in the middle of a gay enclave and decide to audition for a drag queen performance position. They surprise the audience and become a hit in the town. The Handle Bar starts raking in money, expands to become a dinner theater and attracts media attention.
All this while Carla misses her ex-boyfriend back home and Connie falls in love with Jeff (played by Duchovny), her drag queen friend, Robert’s brother, who thinks she’s a man. You’ll have to see the movie to find out what else happens.
Connie and Carla is a cute romantic comedy full of Broadway show tunes that should not be compared to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Some Like it Hot or Victor/Victoria. If you expect this movie to be like My Big Fat Greek Wedding, you will be disappointed, otherwise you have a lot of laughs.
Two funny moments in the film are the Martha Stewart prison stripes collection comment and Jeff finding Connie’s tampon. Hmmm… what an explanation.
Above sent in by Kathy
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Hmm, I was thinking Victor/Victoria actually. Some Like it Hot is just the drag queen side, but Victor/Victoria is the "woman who's dressed as a man who's dressed as a woman who has to pretend she's gay and falls in love with a man while she's dressed as man..." <insert confusion and laughter>
This could be a neat moderization of Julie Andrews role. Wonder if there's a cameo.
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