'Kinky Boots:A Gay Crowd Pleaser'

Within the world of gay cinema, the sub-genre of “drag queen vs small town hicks” films has become somewhat of an industry unto itself. From The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) to To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) to even Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988), etc., they have become pretty formulaic.
The cross-dressing lead “heroine” characters in such movies can be pretty one-dimensional. They rise above all adversity and eventually win the day with little more than stereotypically jaded vulgarisms, chipper “go girl” attitude and tacky fashion sense. Their finger-snap-in-the-air one liner/zingers always manage to stop troublesome homophobic brutes dead in their tracks.
Although basically a similarly predictable, “feel good” crowd pleaser movie about social tolerance and acceptance, Kinky Boots manages to rise above the genre's usual mediocrity by way of the smart, endearing performances by all of its cast, and especially its leads.
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In the case of Kinky Boots, the good Samaritan is Charlie Price, owner of a financially failing footwear factory. The “special” person he meets in a chance encounter (in an alley where he tries to rescue her from thugs), and the recipient of his act of kindness is Lola, a drag queen. Her supernatural power is, well she's a drag queen and she's fabulous!
No, seriously. Lola, being a cross-dressing star at a London drag nightclub (and also a former heavy-weight boxer), possesses unique natural insights into the footwear needs of men who want to dress like outrageously sexy women. These insights help save Charlie's Northhampton shoe factory by designing ultra sexy and kinky drag boots of all kinds for the new footwear line.
(http://www.afterelton.com/movies/2006/4/kinky.html)