“Stop! That! Train!” stars RuPaul as the President of the United States as a major transit crisis unfolds and a dangerous storm approaches. Both outlets describe the film as a disaster-movie parody that plays out with an irreverent tone while centering on efforts to avert an impending catastrophe. The New York Times highlights the film’s inclusion of drag queens and presents the plot as the president responding to an escalating emergency involving trains. Variety similarly frames the story around the need to stop a train traveling toward a collision, tied to a rare, once-in-a-century weather event.
Variety also characterizes the premise around two heroic stewardesses who partner with RuPaul’s character to confront the crisis. Both accounts describe the movie as gleefully over-the-top in its approach, using its comedic and theatrical elements to stage a high-stakes scenario. Variety notes the film’s marketing or framing around the claim that events unfold “exactly as it happened in real life,” while the overall narrative remains presented as a parody. The reviews collectively emphasize the film’s mix of disaster thrills and comedic spectacle, with the approaching storm as the main driver of the escalating plot.
