Fun, refreshing, clever romp!
Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-Shero is a massive success for the queens of 2024 and 2025! I was afforded the immense pleasure of watching this film at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco among a lively crowd of all the beautiful community for which it was meant.
The animation and art direction are bright, poppy, and optimistic, complemented perfectly by the vocal talents of Grant Hodges, Erika Ishii, Terren Wooten Clarke, and a dazzling plethora of supporting actors. Wooten Clarke steals the show as Dyna Bolical, an Evil Queen worthy of the capitalizations in her campy reflection of vanity reminiscent of Snow White's ill intentioned stepmother.
The overall story decision to link the drag persona with the superhero alter ego is additionally inspired! Simon's coming of age through the combined fairy godmothers of Jae, Mama Mumu, and one very Jim Carrey-the-Mask-esque wig found in the back alley dreaded by every entry-level employee who's ever lived feels as real as the tales we lived through in our baby gay eras, unsure or insecure of the star power we all learn to possess.
I won't spoil much more, but I'll leave you with this note: if you ever wondered how Beaches could possibly get more tragic and somehow more hilarious, you won't be wondering much longer. Maxxie LaWow wows, to the max.
The animation and art direction are bright, poppy, and optimistic, complemented perfectly by the vocal talents of Grant Hodges, Erika Ishii, Terren Wooten Clarke, and a dazzling plethora of supporting actors. Wooten Clarke steals the show as Dyna Bolical, an Evil Queen worthy of the capitalizations in her campy reflection of vanity reminiscent of Snow White's ill intentioned stepmother.
The overall story decision to link the drag persona with the superhero alter ego is additionally inspired! Simon's coming of age through the combined fairy godmothers of Jae, Mama Mumu, and one very Jim Carrey-the-Mask-esque wig found in the back alley dreaded by every entry-level employee who's ever lived feels as real as the tales we lived through in our baby gay eras, unsure or insecure of the star power we all learn to possess.
I won't spoil much more, but I'll leave you with this note: if you ever wondered how Beaches could possibly get more tragic and somehow more hilarious, you won't be wondering much longer. Maxxie LaWow wows, to the max.
- miavodanovich
- 9 feb 2025