...complete with a final showdown where queer culture fabulously triumphs over gun culture...

To Wong Foo... is worthwhile if only for the performances, which are surprisingly good.

Leguizamo's Chi Chi is the only one who looks anything like a drag queen, let alone a woman; yet we are asked to believe that it's Swayze's breathy Vida and Snipes' squealing Noxeema who've got their stocking seams straight.

It succeeds, thanks to the casting of these three macho actors, in the case of Snipes especially, seem to be winking at the audience.