The tale of two heroic stewardesses who team up with RuPaul Charles, the President of the United States, to stop a train on a collision course with a once-a-century weather event, “Stop! That! Train!” is billed as a “true story” where every scene unfolds “exactly as it happened in real life.” Given such an extraordinary sequence of events, it seems difficult to believe that this singular chapter in recent American history isn’t better known by the moviegoing public. But that may be because it was only covered by the most elite of news platforms: World of Wonder, the streaming service that broadcasts “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” several of whose stars (surely just coincidentally) figure heavily into this film’s account.
Directed by Adam Shankman, this cheeky, charming feature-length project from the “Drag Race universe” may resonate most immediately with fans of the reality competition series, or at least those audiences who prefer to keep tongue firmly embedded in cosmetically beautified cheek. But appealing performances by Ginger Minj, Jujubee and RuPaul as the aforementioned Commander in Chief keep this action comedy disaster movie on the right track even when the train of the title threatens to fly off the rails.
