The Glamazonian Express has a storm coming, and its crew is not exactly built for emergency response. Stop! That! Train! arrives on Netflix in the United States on September 20 after its summer theatrical run. The comedy puts Ginger Minj and Jujubee aboard an absurdly luxurious train, then asks them to save it alongside a president played by RuPaul.

Tess and DeeDee are best friends and coach-class attendants who land jobs on the Express. They clash with the first-class staff almost immediately. Then a catastrophic weather event called Stormaganza turns that rivalry into a problem no one can afford to keep having. The coach crew, their snobby colleagues and President Judy Gagwell must work together before the high-speed journey ends badly.

RuPaul as President Judy Gagwell sits behind a desk in Stop! That! Train!.
RuPaul plays the president recruited into a very unlikely rescue. · Credit: Bleecker Street

A disaster movie with Drag Race energy

Director Adam Shankman, whose credits include Hairspray, steers the film toward the broad spoof tradition of Airplane! and The Naked Gun. The distributor sells it as a knowingly silly comedy, not a straight-faced survival thriller. The trailer makes that promise visible: bright train interiors, outsized uniforms, celebrity cameos and RuPaul holding court in the Oval Office.

The cast extends well beyond the three leads. Bleecker Street lists Brooke Lynn Hytes, Latrice Royale, Marcia Marcia Marcia, Monét X Change and Symone among the performers, bringing a sizable Drag Race reunion onto the train. Brian Jordan Alvarez and Rachel Bloom are also named by Universal Pictures’ UK film page. The joke is the collision of personalities as much as the runaway train itself.

First-class passengers and stewardesses sit together in a luxury train carriage.
Coach and first class have to set their differences aside. · Credit: Bleecker Street

When and where to watch

Netflix’s September 18–24 guide places Stop! That! Train! on September 20. This is the US streaming rollout in the cited Netflix schedule; availability in another country may differ. Bleecker Street’s distributor page also lists the film for digital rental or purchase, so Netflix is not its first release or the only way it has been offered.

RuPaul in a blond wig looks at a mirror inside the train.
The film puts Drag Race performers into an unapologetically camp disaster spoof. · Credit: Bleecker Street

If you missed it at the cinema, the streaming debut gives the joke another chance to find its audience. Do not expect a sober action spectacle. The appeal is seeing a cast of queens and comic actors treat a ridiculously lavish train disaster as both a crisis and an excuse for one more entrance.