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Amos Lassen wrote on 02/14/2011:

"Girl King"--Gender Bending at Sea
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"My Girlfriend's Boyfriend" or Who is the Bride
Amos Lassen
And here is something for the ladies---full of fetish. "Girl King" (Culture Q Connection) is a gender bending lesbian love story set on the open sea with lots of swashbuckling and high sea adventure.
We do not see a lot of drag king movies especially costume drama. Along comes
"Girl King" and a pirate story on water and the tide changes (sorry about that). Ileana Pietrobruo write and directed this change of pace film and is very sexy. Here is a high sea adventure with the standard search for the hidden treasure. Our women here are an all girl cast of male pirates replete with butch women who can easily pass for men. Every so often we also have the femme in this well made movie. Our cast of characters include Butch--very naive and sometimes referred to as baby Butch and his (her) partner, Claudia. They have been captured by the queen who is inconsolable since her king has left her and taken the treasure along. The queen is eager to regain the treasure and realizes that Butch is the man (woman) for the job. In return the queen will allow Bitch will be allowed to have Claudia when he (she) returns safely with the loot. Claudia does not want to be left alone while the quest takes place and escapes to follow Butch. Claudia ensconces herself in leather drag and off they go.
Once at sea, gender roles change unbelievably quickly and what is butch becomes femme or vice versa. Here is a true genderf*** of a movie. The activities that take place will confuse you to a degree and make your temperature rise as well. For the gender bending alone this is a film not to be missed. I had a call watching it.
Also from Culture Q Connection is "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend" which is due out on the 19th of September. Here is a comedy of errors in a true slapstick mode. Lame at times, it has several good laughs and stars Deborah Gibson. Cliff, a hunk who stars in a TV soap opera decides that in order to further his career, he should marry (even though he is gay and plans to wed Cory. a very sweet and somewhat innocent girl from the right side of the tracks. Cliff is also involved in a long term relationship with his best man. Now with that out of the way, we can concentrate on the shenanigans that will naturally ensue.
All goes awry when Liberty, Cory's best friend arrives to be maid of honor and brings along her tall, inept and clumsy boyfriend of the moment. Here begins the questions of who is straight, who is gay, and what is going to happen next. There is a great deal of slapstick and a fine performance by Valerie Perrine as Cory's mother. ( I wondered what had ever happened to her). I would not dare to call this a good movie. It is an escape and has some good lines so it has some good qualities. I just had a lot of trouble with some of the foolish "shtick" which instead of helping the film made it seem to be monotonous at times. Still I am glad I saw it and I do think it is worth a looking at.