Hurricane Bianca

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Mr. Martinez chases his “making a difference” dreams all the way to backwards Texas where he winds up as the science teacher teaching creationism. Faggy ties are of course verboten here, but not, apparently, backless, braless dresses on the female teachers, or anatomically-correct titty cakes in the staff room. The students are horrid little assholes set on making his first day his last, but their work load is light because this school puts its students’ safety first, and fires him immediately upon learning he’s gay.

Hurricane_Bianca_posterHe soothes himself with a little drag and suddenly, he’s inspired: why not Mrs. Doubtfire himself back into a job? So the next day he falsies up everything he can in grand Drag Queen fashion: fake lashes, fake cleavage, fake hair, real sashay, and before his new name “Bianca” can trill off his tongue, he’s sitting in the principal’s lap, accepting the very position he’d been fired from the day before.

The kids are still assholes but Bianca is magically more savvy than Mr. Martinez and she takes no guff. In fact, she unleashes scathing Drag Queen stand-up on her students. This shit was nastier than Amy Schumer roasting Charlie Sheen. There’s no doubt that even Texans would find this less professional and more fire-able than being gay, yet Bianca roasting her students wins her popularity and career stability.

Roy Haylock does a good Mr. Martinez but it’s hard not to like him best when he’s snarky and sarcastic Bianca. Bianca Del Rio is his legit Drag Queen name – you may know Bianca from having won season 6 of Ru Paul’s Drag Race (and if you do, you’re in luck: not only does Ru Paul make an appearance, so does at least one of Bianca’s competitors!). There’s a gold mine of comedy here and I don’t blame writer\director Matt Kugelman for coming up with a pretense for laying it on as thickly as Bianca spackles on her eyebrows. Laughter is more important than authenticity.

Alan Cumming and Rachel Dratch lend some campy fun to the proceedings (and watch out for a Margaret Cho cameo!) but as the title suggests, it’s Bianca who is the force of nature here. Batten down the hatches and enjoy.

 

 

 

 

23 thoughts on “Hurricane Bianca”

    1. Jay Post author

      No. If you can let go, it’s quite enjoyable and maybe even cathartic. But no matter how bratty those kids are, you sort of cringe to hear a teacher talking to them like that. I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts when you see it.

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  4. John Charet

    Great post 🙂 This sounds interesting 🙂 Whereas most cross dressing comedies have been on the light hearted side (Some Like It Hot, Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire), this one sounds more like a dark comedy. Anyway, keep up the great work as always 🙂

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    1. Jay Post author

      It’s definitely edgier.The drag is done in the same vein as those movies but just happens to be done by a professional this time, rather than a hairy ape like the wonderful Robin Williams.

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  8. allendemir

    The “revenge is a bitch” line makes me curious. Where does revenge come into play? Is it by making their kids LGBT tolerant? I guess that would be considered pretty cruel in some communities.

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