I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

ridiculous rating

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This is the first John Waters movie I have seen and I wasn't surprised when I watched all the things that happened in the movie because I have heard what nasty things can happen in his movies.I must day this is by far the most weirdest movie I have ever seen.It will be very hard to find another movie that tops this.This is a typical John Waters movie.I managed to find the uncut NC-17 rated version and I must say don't watch this movie unless its the NC-17 version.This movie was really nasty and really funny.It made me laugh non stop from start to finish.I got told don't watch this movie but I had to see what all the fuss was about it. Don't watch this movie if you get easily offended or faint hearted cos there is a lot of stuff that is in this movie that offends and disturbs people.This is not for children only for adults.My mom saw this movie on TV a few years ago and she said it was a movie that is really bad but it isn't a bad movie.John Waters definitely has a very twisted mind and he can put in a lot of crazy stuff into a 90 minute movie.I don't think there was a second of this movie where it wasn't crazy.10/10 is my rating

Bad taste in Baltimore. Unfunny sexual shenanigans are an indication of the depths to which popular American films have sunk. It is quite incredible how insanitary activities by unpleasant people are supposed to be entertaining. The general impression from the little of this film I was able to stomach was that morality and good neighborliness had sunk without trace. And why anyone would want to make themselves look ugly through cosmetic surgery is another mystery. It is very sad that people are prepared to act in such rubbish, and even sadder that people will pay to watch it. The fact that residents of the area where this garbage was filmed were happy to take part in it, is an indication of the low esteem in which they hold their community.

The bard of Baltimore has made a career out of championing the outsider who can't or won't conform to what is considered normal. Over forty plus years, Waters gave us some of the craziest pictures to come out of the so called underground and stake a place in the popular imagination. Now, he's like the kindly, if strange Uncle figure to the world's alienated youth who find a kinship with his interests in serial murderers, body modification, the changing gender roles in society and making films his way, becoming one of the few true auteurs of cinema."A Dirty Shame" gets off to a kooky start with a scenario based on the apparently real facts about some head injury survivors developing a stronger sex drive, post accident. Tracy Ullman has her greatest US role as "Sylvia", a somewhat dowdy lady who gets to shock the whole city with her transformation from prudish to wild. Her husband (Chris Isaak) and very large breasted daughter (Selma Blair) are taken aback by the new Sylvia, who's "got the itch" and runs around Baltimore looking for someone who can scratch it!This disc has just as much wonderful behind the scenes detail, with many chapters (all worth watching) about everything from the real nature of unusual sex practises (now the proverbial cat out of the bag, thanks to the internet) to how Waters gets help with his soundtrack selections. "A Dirty Shame" is no grand thesis on religion and carnality. It's a wild comic ride through familiar territory for fans, this time with an NC-17 rating instead of the old Waters' standard of X (I've never liked this "NC-17" thing, to me it's like something the matronly woman in those old underwear ads would stamp on defective men's briefs!). The biggest shock nowadays would be if an elder statesman on bad taste like Waters made a totally family friendly movie and earned a truly shocking "G".

... because the soundtrack is absolutely great. John Waters is a true connaisseur of 1950ies rockabilly music.Also a shame about the great cast consisting of Tracey Ullman, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak ... erm, and Patty Hearst and David Hasselhoff (aka his Hoffness). And a bunch of surprisingly effective unknowns. It's a John Waters movie, after all.This is a pastiche that plays off sexual depravity against a 1950ies style puritanism. A stolid housewife gets whacked over the head, turns into a sexfiend, and joins the local league of sexual perverts, each of which developed a fetish such as "paydaying" (you'll find out) after getting whacked on the head. There are many conversations like this in this movie: "I'm horny, I need hard cock!" -- "Wash your mouth out with soap and water, sexuality is a sacred duty." When was this ever funny or captivating? Never. But it is particularly out of place in an age where there is a whole, worldwide medium almost solely dedicated to the exploration of every last perversion the human mind is capable of -- and writing cinema reviews. This movie really needs a storyline.