Wade \”"Cry-baby\”" Walker drives the girls in his high school class wild with his ability to shed a single tear in this juvenile delinquent musical comedy.
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Artist: CRY BABY
Title: CRY BABY
Street Release Date: 07/12/2005
Genre: COMEDY VIDEOJohn Waters’s goofy, 1990 comedy about a Baltimore girl (Amy Locane) who can’t decide if she should remain “good” in her 1954 world or hang out with the motorcycle boys is funny in a scene-by-scene way, but doesn’t quite gel into the grand piece the director was hoping for. The cast is exceptionally likable, however, including Johnny Depp as an Elvis type and Iggy Pop as a chattering loony. The best material is set in a fringe world of bikers and losers on the outskirts of town, and Waters writes some hilarious sardonic dialogue for the characters. Cry-Baby is the last of Waters’s more undisciplined features; he followed it with the glossier but no less perverse Serial Mom. –Tom Keogh
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February 1, 2006
#1
This movie is in my top 5 of worst movies ever. The words boring and dumb cannot even combine to describe how bad it is.
February 1, 2006
#2
I got this movie for my birthday this year since I am a huge Johnny Depp fan (love him in 21 Jump Street, Pirates of the Carribbean, Nightmare on Elm Street-even though he died!, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory…etc) so my friend and I sat down to watch this movie and we were absolutely confused within the first thirty minutes. It made zero sense, the characters were very over the top, that girl turned into a greaser (or whatever they called them) WAYYYY to fast for someone like her, I mean I know that it’s supposed to probably be just some cool and funny pointless movie but all in all, it’s right up there with Napoleon Dynamite for me…lame.
The only reasons I gave it 1 star is because A. Johnny Depp is in it. B. They don’t give you a choice lower than one and C. JOHNNY DEPP IS IN IT!
But overall…not one of Johnny’s best and definitely not one I recommend.
February 1, 2006
#3
I wouldn’t recommend this film. I think I got bored. It was so long ago, but I believe I was bored.
February 1, 2006
#4
This is the worst movie ever produced. This movie is a waste of time to make. Johnny Depp is a fair actor and this is not one of his best. The rest of the cast is a bunch of low rate actors and shouldn’t be allowed to be on the small screen, let alone the big screen. I wouldn’t waste my money to buy this movie to burn it.
February 2, 2006
#5
I can only imagine that the popularity of John Waters is due to people under the delusion that they are suppose to like John Waters. As much as I love Sontag I do have to take exception with the focus on camp as a meaningful medium. Certainly there is humor in campy fare like the original Batman series, but when do we simply call tripe for what it is? Cry-Baby, is the greatest example of this, as it is by far the worst film in a list of films by perhaps the most overrated director I have ever come across. Cry-Baby is not goofy, it is not fun, it is not silly, it is not camp, it is simply a terrible terrible movie. The acting is abysmal, and I like Johnny Depp. The story is extremely terrible, and the overall production exemplifies my point: there is no such thing as so bad it is good. Laughing at a film (as opposed to laughing with a film) for it’s low brow style cheesiness doesn’t make the film funny. This movie seriouly belongs on a MST3K style lampoon, but instead people revel in it for what I can only assume is a sensation that they are suppose to like John Waters. I had a similar sensation when watching Pecker, the other supposed great Waters flick. If you happen upon this film because you have heard of Waters, and are curious, trust me, he is not an artist, and this film is a waste of time. Johnny Depp may be a good actor, but sweet mother of all that is holy, even Ed Wood made better films than this. Avoid John Waters like the plague, because frankly, if I had to choose between dying having the bubonic plague and watching this film again, I would gladly choose the plague.