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While I've enjoyed John Waters recent output, movies like Pecker and Serial Mom have played it a little to safe for my liking. It's great to think of middle-America watching any kind of Waters movie rather than pap like Pearl Harbor and The Mummy Returns, but these movies only give half the picture. While Cecil B. Demented isn't pure unadulterated Waters like Pink Flamingos, it is his best movie since Cry Baby, and a complete HOOT. Man, the sheer energy and humour of this movie, and the basic message of its love for REAL cinema, really pushed my buttons and left me grinning from ear to ear, and UP for a week afterwards! Hopefully someone out there is listening, 'gets it', and will check out some earlier Waters, and some of the work of Sprockets heroes, and their lives will be enriched forever.

Who thought anarchy would be so cool. Fed up with the system, Cecil B. Demented, wonderfully played by Stephen Dorff, leads his rag-tag gang of miscreants to make the ultimate underground film. Melanie Griffith is great as the washed up movie star, considering the parallels between her character and real life. John Waters created a film worthy of his early career, something that is both shocking and enlightening. I remember the time he went on Politically Incorrect, speaking of the ills of modern cinema and how film in general has become blasé and dull. A good film for film buffs, this is one of those movies that wants to destroy the very foundation it was built upon in the most crude and visceral way possible.

It is about time for this movie. How long is Hollywood going to pump out crap? It is now on some superhero binge. No more. Indie films are what it is all about. New ideas not old ones. This film made great points about these things. It was done in very overly crazy things and in a perverted way but it was great. It was definitely fun to watch. I don't know what to say about the acting. Lets just say it was good for this movie. True Indie film fans check this out soon.