Pink Flamingos
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Actor: David Lochary, Divine, Edith Massey, Nancy Crystal, Pat LefaiverBrand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Divine
Primary Contributor: David Lochary
Primary Contributor: Pearce, Mary Vivian
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: NC-17
Studio: New Line Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Pink Flamingos
Movie Review: The Filthiest Person Alive
Summary: 3 Stars
John Waters has already had just one goal in mind...to shock everyone and prove to the world that he's weird.
He is really a man ahead of his time. He's like that 14 year old emo boy hanging out in Hot Topic who just tries and tries to be the weirdest guy at the mall, but at the end your heart aches with embarrassment for him because he just looks like a desperate moron. Like Cradle of Filth fans who actually call themselves vampires and drink their own blood.
John Waters are those kids with a video camera. There's shocking and then there's trying so hard to be shocking that you end up just looking stupid. This movie is the latter.
The acting is the worst ever (1st grade class rendition of The Sound of Music bad). The storyline is rather lame and the neon red and blue hair looked better on Alex's parents in A Clockwork Orange.
KIDS was a shock movie that actually tried to have a story. This is a shock movie that doesn't try to have anything and in that regard it succeeds. I guess I'm just incredibly jaded and impossible to shock because I found nothing in the movie outrageous, but that might be because the movie is obviously just a desperate attempt to shock with no other goals at all.
I gave it three stars only because Waters is a master of drawing you in just enough that you're willing to sit through this crap to see if it ever becomes worth watching. I figure he deserves some recognition for that, at least.
Summary of Pink Flamingos
Filmmaker John Waters exploded into infamy with this darkly comic classic in which cross-dresser Divine stars as Babs Johnson a criminal in hiding from the FBI in a trailer outside of Baltimore Maryland. Accompanying Babs are her mother (Edith Massey) a dim-witted woman who is obsessed with eggs; her son Crackers (Danny Mills); and Cotton (Mary Vivian Pierce) Babs's "travelling companion" and Crackers' co-conspirator in unwholesome play.Running Time: 108 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?COMEDY UPC:?794043751622This is the movie that made John Waters famous, and quite possibly the film that made bad taste cool. Yes, Virginia, a large transvestite actually eats dog feces as a kind of dizzying denouement to this frequently illogical and intentionally disgusting movie, but by the time that happens, you're already numb ... and you've possibly laughed to the point of losing bladder control.
The plot revolves around two vile families laying claim to the title "The Filthiest People Alive." You've got pregnant women in pits, you've got grown men getting sexual satisfaction from chickens, you've got people licking furniture to perform trailer-park voodoo, and you've got classic lines like: "Oh my God! The couch ... it ... it rejected you!"
Waters, who went on to direct genuine pop-culture classics such as Hairspray and Serial Mom, made this celluloid sideshow with one aim--to make a name for himself. It worked. He does have a genuine eye for filmmaking (when the trailer burns down, you feel the white heat of Divine's pain and anger). On the other hand, you won't notice any disclaimers about stunt doubles and animals not being mistreated. There weren't, and they were. Welcome to the filthiest film in the world. --Grant Balfour
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