How funny you find the title of Stop! That! Train! — or specifically, its emphatic exclamation points — should prove a reliable litmus test for the number of laughs you get out of Adam Shankman’s nutty fusillade of multiple jokes per minute. The ebullient parody’s obvious antecedent is Airplane! and its many imitator spoofs of ‘70s disaster movies, but it dips just as significantly for inspiration into Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion and Mean Girls.
Sherpherded by World of Wonder co-founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, the movie is bred from the DNA of the RuPaul’s Drag Race empire, its ensemble stuffed to the gills with that long-running reality contest’s alumnae alongside a slew of comedy recruits and random celebs, many of them former Drag Race judges.
Stop! That! Train!
The Bottom Line
Get on board.
