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	All The Queen's Men
	Stefan Ruzowitzky Matt LeBlanc, Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo, Nicolette Krebitz, Udo Kier, David Birkin, Edward Fox 2002		If Matt LeBlanc of TV's "Friends" hoped that his lead role in "All the Queen's Men" would kick-start a post-television film career, he should turn his attention to a possible spin-off series featuring his "Friends" character, Joey. "All the Queen's Men" is an asinine comedy about a quartet of cross-dressing Allied operatives who parachute into Berlin during World War II and disguise themselves as women — the ugliest, most preposterous women imaginable — in order to steal an Enigma cipher machine from a Nazi factory that only employs females. The usually brilliant comedian Eddie Izzard plays Tony, a London drag queen (and former British spy!?!) enlisted by the military to give girly makeovers to manly American special agent O'Rourke (LeBlanc) and two Royal Army recruits, a burly, aging desk jockey and an effete code breaker. None of these guys are even slightly believable as women, nor is O'Rourke's instant love affair with their German resistance contact, a sexy, resourceful librarian. Drag can be funny. (See "Some Like It Hot.") "All the Queen's Men" just drags.