Three drag queens head for Hollywood and end up in the sticks - with a vengeful cop pursuing them.

How they put the lives of the Stixville citizens to rights while maintaining their queenly dignity is pure Tinseltown moonshine but there are some nice ideas here and several of them are hard to resist.

Often betraying its stage origins, the film still has some magic moments that compensate for its more embarrassing ones.

And Chris Penn is treasurable as the cop bent on revenge for having been outmanoeuvred by the sequinned threesome.

Even by its own standards, though, the film is OTT at the climactic picnic, when the assembled company looks ready to burst into a chorus of Oklahoma!