All The Queen's Men

I am not quite sure if this film was supposed to be comedy, satire, serious or what? They took a serious topic but dealt it in humorous way. Was it supposed to be gay comedy or just comedy where men dress as women or what exactly was it. That and many things apart, the film still held my attention because it kept moving and never dragged but the end result was still not satisfactory.

The premise of the film is that the British and American agents during the Second World War try to infiltrate the espionage mechanism in Berlin by disguising themselves in drag, in order to steal a precious Enigma encoding and decoding machine from an all-female factory. Involving a group of seemingly useless and odd team - One is a pen-pusher of rather advanced age who's terrified of the prospect of being dropped behind enemy lines, another is a bi-sexual transvestite who appears way too camp to be capable of doing any more than giving the others make-up and deportment tips. Then there's the brain-box multilingual de-coder, barely out of short trousers, hopelessly naive and with a weak bladder to boot and finally Matt Le Blanc playing apparently dumb but cute American leader for the combat like only he can. So to get this enigma from the all women factory they have to train themselves to be women. They finally reach Berlin after their training and with the help of a local librarian girl, they find their way out. Of Course our man Matt Le Blanc has to fall in love. We have few moments to tell individual lives of other 3 men. Finally after lots of trials and error, they successfully steal the enigma only to realize later that probably they were cheated. The army never wanted them to steal it. They only wanted them to get caught so that the Nazis could think they are still trying to get the enigma (which apparently they already had) and the Americans could continue to read all the codes.

There were so many pot holes in the movie but when it is suppoed to be comedy, you can easily ignore them. I must also say that theye were some funny moments but then this is one film where the 4 men did not look anywhere close to looking like women. They looked most manly and ugliest women. Matt Le Blanc seriously cant do anything after FRIENDS. He is still trying to find his bearing. You might like or dislike campy cabaret scenes, the sets, and lack of reality. Who needs realistic war scenes and drama when they want to relax and be entertained. Although at times there were scenes which depicted a poignant look at how the war affected people.

Consider this as a low budge comedy, you are not watching it because of its intense actions, or serious historical stories, etc, just watch it to get entertained. (5/10)