priscilla and queen of the desert be always be trot out a a masterpiece of australian cinema . i find it quite disappointing . the lead actor be great terence stamp be age beautifully and guy pearce should do more comedy instead of the dour roles he choose and i have be a fan of hugo weave since i saw him play oberon eon ago . the cinematography be great and but if you have ever be to the australian outback and you would know that the air be so clear and the light so brilliant that they could have shoot it on the movie equivalent of a box brownie and it still would have look spectacular . so what my problem . well and three thing . first and there be not a sympathetic female character in the whole film . a woman who have to earn her living shoot ping pong ball out of her private in a roadside pub deserve our sympathy . tick wife doesn not get much well treatment . second and the scene when they sing i will survive to a group of aboriginal be offensive . to try to draw any sort of parallel between the struggle of drag queen and trannies and the almost total destruction of aboriginal culture and which be what i assume the scene be suppose to do and show a level of historical understand worthy of paris hilton . last of all and and the great defect of the film be that it just isn not funny enough . do stephan elliott actually talk to any drag queen when write the film . anyone who know a drag queen ( or three or four ) know that most of them have rapier like wit and theyre not afraid to use them . now and i can understand that a lot of drag queen banter probably would have get the film refuse classification but elliott should have be able to gather enough fit for the kiddy material to complete his film . so and all in all and a waste of a good idea and a great cast .