Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

keelhaul-80856 Another of a long list of shows that devolved into nothing more than a Jerry Springer ripoff.Research all of the daytime hosts and check out their background. This will explain a lot.Sally Jesse, Ricki, Springer, etc. = nothing but a waste of time to parade around goth kids yelling at their parents, fat morons with adolescent idiot kids who should have been aborted, along with the show and the parents and hosts alike.Such a sad society, that has resorted to 500 shows like this for ghetto and hillbilly stereotypes to sit around and watch parodies and examples of themselves on TV.

TheLittleSongbird I admit it, I am not a fan of confrontational shows. Out of all the confrontational shows, Ricki Lake is the worst, worse than Maury and Jerry Springer put together. Now I have nothing personal against Ricki herself, she is likable, but she deserves better. One major problem are the guests, some of them are absolutely horrible and if I had a choice between meeting them in person and being sick in the toilet I'd know which one I'd choose. Secondly, and this applies to pretty much all the talk shows, the audience is so annoying, they are so ungratifying and prejudge the guests without hearing their side of the story. Yes, some get to voice their side, but seriously do you think any of the guests are going to take on board anything anybody other than Ricki says? Thirdly, it feels like the same thing talked about over and over, it gets really boring. I don't like the music either, too generic and the episodes are really pedestrian in pace. Overall, I hate it, not Ricki herself but the show. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Catherine_Grace_Zeh I really miss this talk show. First off, I must say that it was an okay talk show. Also, I haven't seen every episode. However, if you ask me, it was still a good show. I know some of the theme song by heart, too. I didn't enjoy every topic that Ricki did. Still, I enjoyed watching people get busted. It was especially fun watching people get reformed. That's what I liked most about this talk show. Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that I'll always remember this show in my memory forever, even though I haven't seen every episode. Now, in conclusion, if some network ever brings it back, I hope that you catch it one day before it goes off the air for good.

Blooeyz2001 Ricki Lake started out as an actress parlaying her obesity into a novelty. The fat novelty could only last so long in films & TV fare. So she lost some weight, but still acting jobs were scarce. So she decided to become a hip talk show host. The concept was fresh & innovative in 1993. "Ricki" even spawned the rip-off "The Tempestt Bledsoe Show". This "hip" show stayed on the air way past it's expiration date. The show got stale quickly. One annoying aspect towards the end was the lie detector dynamic. Ricki really beat this one into the ground like a dead horse. It was like watching the same exact show daily. Dolts take a lie detector test & their partners find out whether they cheated or not. UGH! Another major problem with this show was Ricki Lake herself. The woman is as fake & plastic as the day is long. You'd never know she was an "actress" by watching this slop. The idiotic faces she'd make to show "concern", "understanding", etc. were appalling, false, & calculated. She'd also shed a crocodile tear or two, & laughed that phony laugh. She was also a puppet-head. Any fool could have been doing her job, because 90% of the time she was reading cue cards. Thank goodness this trash finally ended up in the TV dumpster in 2004! (If you'd like to see my thoughts duplicated, practically word for word with some extra gibberish thrown in, read what Raysond had to say).