Cecil B. Demented
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Actor: Melanie Griffith, Stephen DorffBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Cecil B. Demented
Movie Review: Dementia Never Looked So Good!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Cecil B. Demented" is the funniest mainstream movie that John Waters has ever made. He satirizes the self-righteousness of independent filmmakers who are willing to die for their art, as well as Hollywood hacks who make movies only to make money. This movie also has more references to other films - mostly fictitious - than any other movie in film history! Melanie Griffith stars as Honey Whitlock, the Hollywood diva who is in Baltimore for the premier of her latest movie. It's a sappy, romantic comedy entitled "Some Kind Of Happiness." The crazed Cecil (Stephen Dorff) and his gang of outlaw filmmakers, called the Sprocket Holes, kidnap her. They force her to star in their ultimate reality film called "Raving Beauty." During the course of their filmmaking they attack a theatre showing the director's cut of "Patch Adams," disrupt a luncheon of the Maryland Film Commission, and take refuge in a porno movie theatre showing "Rear Entry." The star of that adult film just happens to be one of the Sprocket Holes, Cherish, lustily played by Alicia Witt. My favorite scene is when they invade the set of "Gump Again," which is being filmed in Baltimore. Kevin Nealon, taking over for Tom Hanks in the sequel, delivers the best line in the movie. "I guess life is a lot like a crabcake. There's lots of good stuff in the middle, but it's surrounded by a bunch of crap!" This movie is full of good stuff from beginning to end, and proves that John Waters is still a demented genius!
Summary of Cecil B. Demented
CECIL B. DEMENTED - DVD MovieJohn Waters spoofs independent filmmaking at its most absurd fringe with this affectionate portrait of a guerrilla filmmaking collective that declares war on Hollywood drivel. Bitchy screen queen Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith, whose kewpie doll voice and aging baby face are right at home) is kidnapped by would-be auteur Cecil (Stephen Dorff), a slogan-spouting bottle blonde with a cult-like crew of cinema outlaws called "The Sprocket Holes." Cecil has declared war on Hollywood with the ultimate underground movie, "Raving Beauty," and his reluctant star Honey soon adopts her young misfit captors like a worried Mommy as her cultural cachet rises: the falling star has turned into a cult cinema rebel. It's a bizarre revision of the Patty Hearst story (with Hearst herself in a supporting role) full of film insider jokes and '60s revolutionary references, but it's more spoof than satire. Waters's primitive style is often clumsy, and the picture moves in fits and starts, but the cast's enthusiasm brings it to life. Waters has always celebrated misfits, outcasts, and cultural rebels and their self-made families, and this is his most outrageous, anarchic such bunch in decades. Through all the shootouts, bomb throwing, and fights with angry teamsters and suburban moms, there's an odd sense of innocence to the enterprise. It's as if Waters wants to remind us: it's only a movie. --Sean Axmaker
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