Herald rating: ***
Running time: 104 mins
In stores: Today
Review: Ewan McDonald
Still in the cinemas and (because that's where we saw it) still on aircraft, too.
Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr (Steve Zahn) and Harry Sawyer (Jeremy Northam) escape from a prison van and steal a Winnebago. It belongs to two gay
men who travel the South running beauty contests.
Which our boys are hired to do for a class of primary schoolgirls when they land in the town of Happy, Texas, and are mistaken for the choreographers.
Convenient, because their professional instincts tell them the local bank might be a pushover.
Yes, it's all completely predictable but good fun as one crim goes into the closet to stitch up the little girls' dresses and dance steps and the other worms his way into the bank vault and the affections of ... well, that would be telling, but one of each gender. Northam switches from the English gentleman of Emma, The Winslow Boy and An Ideal Husband to a Texas convict without missing a beat.
