PodBill Just what I expected

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Karl Self ... because the soundtrack is absolutely great. John Waters is a true connaisseur of 1950ies rockabilly music.Also a shame about the great cast consisting of Tracey Ullman, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak ... erm, and Patty Hearst and David Hasselhoff (aka his Hoffness). And a bunch of surprisingly effective unknowns. It's a John Waters movie, after all.This is a pastiche that plays off sexual depravity against a 1950ies style puritanism. A stolid housewife gets whacked over the head, turns into a sexfiend, and joins the local league of sexual perverts, each of which developed a fetish such as "paydaying" (you'll find out) after getting whacked on the head. There are many conversations like this in this movie: "I'm horny, I need hard cock!" -- "Wash your mouth out with soap and water, sexuality is a sacred duty." When was this ever funny or captivating? Never. But it is particularly out of place in an age where there is a whole, worldwide medium almost solely dedicated to the exploration of every last perversion the human mind is capable of -- and writing cinema reviews. This movie really needs a storyline.

Conard Le Barbu Riant John Waters early work (until Polyester) made me a huge fan of his craziness. I usually adore his cast of freaky characters, his hyperbolic dialogues, his great music selection and his DIY attitude. Sure, in the eighties, he goes a little more mainstream, but that was OK, I guess. Ironically, his worst period is his comeback to his "bad taste" roots. Cecil B. Demented was painful and this one, A Dirty Shame, is plain stupid. So campy, I stopped the DVD many times, and until now, I still haven't finished watchin' it!!! A comedy too trash to please the usual family-comedy fans, and too dumb and childish to interest the others. It got enough ingredients to made a good film, but there's way too much cheese. Come on! Penis-shaped trees getting erected? CGI-squirrels having sex? Skip.

redcore-2 Everyone who took part in this movie should be ashamed.Even actors who I actually like have totally collapsed before my eyes.Seeking any deep meaning and symbolism in this movie is just absurd.It completely lacks any originality.Istead there is some kind of redneckish humour in which there can't be any allegory - it is what it is - incredibly flat and superficial.I love sex jokes but they should at least be funny,not just a line of dirty words and gross images of horny old people.I voted with one star just because there is no option to vote with half or less,but this movie doesn't deserve even that much (well,maybe for the music,but that is quite merciful).Seriously,one of the worst movies ever made.

soltera5000 I don't know I like John Waters movies a lot, I have to listen to my bf telling me how crap they are I like them because they are different and entertaining but I just thought this one wasn't good at all, mostly because the 60's and 70's gave to Waters movie something else that we don't have this days, maybe the music, the clothes, all the retro elements to make this movie more cheesy than they already are. so No I didn't enjoy this movie, only at some points that it was truly stupid and funny but besides that I think its a dirty shame to watch it. And I know Im gonna be criticized by all Waters fans but I really don't think this movie was good...