BAM BAM & CELESTE / (WS AC3 DOL) - BAM BAM & CELESTE / (WS AC3 DOL)

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Celeste (Margaret Cho) and Bam Bam (Bruce Daniels) are best friends still stuck in the white bread Midwest hometown where they grew up. Celeste lives at home with her out-of-touch Mommy (also played by Cho) and has retained her outcast status since high school. She and Bam Bam are free-spirited rejects in a town where looking or dressing differently is perpetually uncool.

Shunned on a good day and taunted on a bad one, the only thing Bam Bam and Celeste have is each other. They both feel life is passing them by. After seeing an ad for a contestant search for TRADING FACES, a reality makeover show in N.Y., they decide to follow their dreams to New York City.

Their yellow brick road to the Big Apple is strewn with potential disasters and comical crises, as they encounter thugs, survivalists, racists and a lesbian Lone Ranger, played with ballsy charm by Jane Lynch (40-Year Old Virgin, Best in Show) and other roadside distractions before finally reaching The City. They arrive, only to find their hometown high-school nemeses, now the style dictators of the world-famous Salon Mirage, sitting in judgment at TRADING FACES.

• Actors: Margaret Cho, Alan Cumming, Elaine Hendrix
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language (Original Language): English
• Region Code: 1
• Release Date: 2007-08-14
• Running Time: 85 minutes
• Theatrical Release Date: 2005

Customer Reviews

Reviewed on 2008-02-09 Dark Humor that's not funny I could barely crack a smile during this celebration of hatefulness and meanness directed toward a Korean-American girl and her gay African-American friend. Evidently they are high school outcasts (so weren't most of us) and then they go on a pilgramidge to New York to be on a makeover "reality" TV show (hosted by another mean person) during which they run into many hateful people along the way. Why this would be considered funny is a mystery to me. It's not fun, it's not insightful, it's poorly paced, laughily "acted," and insulting to people in general. (Granted, humanity deserves insulting periodically, but this piece portrays everyone as a moron.) If you're a hard-core Cho fan, I suppose this might be interesting, but I'd steer clear of this clunker. It's good moments are few.

Reviewed on 2007-10-23 Disappointing I love Margaret Cho, but this movie is somewhat derivative. Bam Bam is highly irritating. I just kept waiting for the funny parts to happen. Margaret is great as her mother, but this isn't enough to carry this movie.

Reviewed on 2007-09-21 Classic Cho!! If you have ever felt like an outcast, you will see yourself in this movie. Classic Cho, Bam Bam & Celeste takes up Margaret's perennials themes of friendship, individuality, and accepting yourself for who and what you are, and weaves them into a comic gem that will lift the spirits of the down trodden. Bam Bam & Celeste follows two friends since high school, Bam Bam (Bruce Daniels) a flamboyantly gay hairdresser and Celeste (Margaret Cho) a down on herself fag hag, as they drive across America to appear on the make over show, Trading Faces. One of the highlights of the film is Margaret in costume as her mother. If you do not share Margaret Cho's or Bruce Daniels' sense of humor, you may miss the many jokes, puns, and digs at GLBT culture. This tale of a queen and his fag hag is an owner for me. I don't think I could have enjoyed it more.

Reviewed on 2007-09-10 Cho Ho Very Cho... I saw some of her stand-up routine in the movie. I wish there would have been more. This is definitely not for children. An epilog would have been nice to complete the story.

Reviewed on 2007-08-21 Road Trip "Bam Bam and Celeste" Road Trip Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride "Bam Bam and Celeste" is a feel good movie loaded with lots of good camp with a great cast. The supporting cast is fantastic and just to watch the many cameos make the movie a special treat. Margaret Cho plays both Celeste and her mother and does a great job. Alan Cumming s absolutely wonderful and Elaine Hendrix is so very evil that you have to love to hate her--she is brilliant. "Bam Bam and Celeste" moves quickly and the movie is completely enjoyable even with the poor direction. I could not help but laugh all the way through the film. . What makes this movie so special is that the movie dared to go both after and with the stereotypes and turn them upside down and inside out. The movie is a road trip from somewhere which is really nowhere to New York City in a car that is so gay it cannot be described. Along with the wonderful comedy is Margaret Cho's unique humor replete with her brashness and brutal honesty. Racial slurs are all over the place which makes us aware as to how widespread prejudice is in our world today and even though it was sometimes painful to hear occasionally, knowing that it was meant to highlight the way we live, definitely hit home. Sometimes they slurs were so direct that I could not help but wince but this is a problem that we can no longer ignore and it just heightened awareness of a shameful part of American culture. Beneath the comedy there is a strong message that cries out to us to be caring and accepting. This is a movie that demands a wide audience because it has so much to say to us and so many needs to hear. What a great way to teach a lesson--through comedy. Even while you laugh, you realize that your laughter is based upon a shameful practice but if you realize it, then you know that things must change. Hopefully, the movie will get to the audience that needs it so badly.

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