Wednesday 29 April 2009

A Dirty Shame (2004) 5/10

Starring : Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak
Director : John Waters
Running Time : 89 mins

Sylvia Stickles (Ullman) is the ultimate prude, refusing sex to her husband Vaughn (Isaak) and keeping her overly enhanced stripper daughter Caprice (Blair) under house arrest, but when Sylvia receives a bump on the head she wakes up with an irresistable urge to have sex all the time with anyone who'll come her way.

This one-joke comedy goes to every extreme to make each joke slightly grosser than the last. What starts off as an interesting idea - that an accidental blow to the head can turn anyone into a sex addict - soon spirals into a basic list of all sorts of sexually depraved acts. There are some initial funny moments, but overall they're just too few and far between to make this a repeatedly watchable movie.

You’ll like this if you liked : Cry-Baby

1 comment:

Axyro said...

Well, you thought about as much of this movie as I thought of Cry-Baby . Is it safe to say you either like John Waters or you don't?