Artisan Entertainment | Release Date: August 11, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
10
Negative:
5
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25
Shrill and sloppy film.
50
Weighed down by the presence of Griffith. She plays her satiric part without much gusto or conviction - as if she were afraid we might believe she really is Honey.
80
DeMented is Waters the way we like him--spiked with laughs and served with a twist.
88
The shenanigans have been pared into 84 minutes of transgressive, potty-minded farce, that is often Waters at his most cheerful and most thematically focused.
80
Cecil B. proves how a dose of smart bad taste can be jolly good fun.
38
Maybe Waters set out to prove Karl Marx's observation that all great events happen twice, first as tragedy and the second time as farce.
63
It's the cinematic equivalent of one of those prop guns where you pull the trigger and a little flag comes out of the barrel, waving gaily.
75
For good and ill, there is only one John Waters.
50
Disappointing and surprisingly crude.
75
For movie fans who despair of the state of American cinema, the in-jokes are hilarious.
50
Where once Waters was brilliantly polluted, now he comes off diluted.
80
Not to be missed, one of the year's best, a whole lotta laughs, and 4-stars all rolled into one.
8
Appears to have been written and directed by a grade-school dropout snorting airplane glue.