Helmed by Adam Shankman – director of 2007’s Hairspray – Stop! That! Train! should feel familiar to fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Indeed, it operates like a feature-length version of one of the show’s acting challenges, with the increased scope and production values to match, and a gag rate surpassed only by the speed of its runaway locomotive.
Writers Christina Friel and Connor Wright – who also penned RuPaul’s 2021 TV movie, The Bitch Who Stole Christmas – pack plenty of wit into a script that is otherwise light on suspense, intrigue and anything else you may expect from a conventional narrative drama. Thankfully the jokes, good and bad, are enlivened by a committed cast of Drag Race alumni.
Aboard the high-speed luxury rail service, they quickly clash with the first-class stewardesses, a mean-girl trio made up of Brooke Lynn Hytes, Symone and Marty Lauter. But just as tensions flare, a greater threat arises. The train is heading directly for a "stormaganza" and it’s up to Tess and DeeDee to somehow put the brakes on.
RuPaul also delivers the goods as President Judy Gagwell, a head of state who still carries the scars from her time in the US Rail Force (a Reagan-era military experiment). The scenes set in the Oval Office are some of the strongest. RuPaul may not have the most screentime but she gets many opportunities to shine – and to drop her iconic catchphrases.
View Green Video on the source websiteStop! That! Train! leverages the language of drag, from reading and vogueing to rose petals hidden under hats. But it too often fails to leverage the best of its premise. Promising set-ups are squandered and the disaster that frames the story has too little bearing on how it plays out.
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