Death Becomes Her

Like most non-musical movies turned musical stage shows, I don’t expect the addition of song to really up the camp value here. Robert Zemeckis’ goofball black comedy about two women who sacrifice life for beauty thanks to a stellar sales pitch from Isabella Rossellini already hits that perfect pitch between weird and watchable sans vocal accompaniment. But I’m sure the audience for this week’s Queer Film Theory 101 movie (Not the Highball live show, the other QFT) will protest this point, musical-pilled gays that they are. Hopefully after ingesting the silly symphony alive in Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn wrestling in a garish indoor fountain, they’ll see that adding narrative-driven singing is just gilding the lily. – James Scott Read a full review of Death Becomes Her.