A Dirty Shame (2004)

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Original title: Dirty Shame, A

Directed by
John Waters

Written by
John Waters

Cast
Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak, Suzanne Shepherd [more]

A Dirty Shame Reviews

So, while I have both things I love and things I hate about this film, I have to say it's worth checking out, but I'm only very mildly recommending this film to anyone... as long as you're not a prude, or afraid of a good sex joke that is... a good, long, 89 minute sex joke that happens to make fun of every straight-laced prude or religious ideal that's ever been presented. [read review] 4/10 --W. Andrew Powell (The Gate.ca) John Waters has made a career out of being distasteful, but his new film, "A Dirty Shame," works so hard at it that you'd think the oily old man has lost his touch. Being raunchy shouldn't be this difficult. Dirty jokes are the EASY ones to come up with.Ask any 7th-grade boy. [read review] D --Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com) WITH HIS SWEETLY sexed-up satire "A Dirty Shame," filmmaker John Waters may, among his many distinctions, have the honor of being the first person to have made an NC-17 film that can be honestly described as warm and fuzzy. It's just that the movie is sogosh-darned, I don't know, cuddly -- in a perverse, John Waters kind of way -- that it's hard not to like. [read review] --Michael O'Sullivan (Washington Post) Waters' latest opus looks and sounds a little less dirt-cheap, but the direction is still incompetent and the acting atrocious. Again, the "plot" is only an excuse to fill the screen with perverted sex acts and idiotic gross-out gags. [read review] --Kevin N. Laforest (Montreal Film Journal) PERHAPS the funniest thing about "A Dirty Shame," John Waters' cheerfully smutty farce about a cult of sex addicts in his native Baltimore, is the highly restrictive NC-17 rating slapped on it by the MPAA. [read review]  --Lou Lumenick (New York Post) For those who like their humor campy and foul, A Dirty Shame is certainly a great way to spend a couple hours of your life. It’s ridiculous, silly, and even at its most serious, thoroughly tongue-in-cheek. [read review] --Carl Lyon (MonstersAtPlay.com) It can be convincingly argued that John Waters' oeuvre is an acquired taste. If that's the case, I haven't yet acquired it. I view Waters as a pre-adolescent male in a state of arrested development. [read review]  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews) In ''A Dirty Shame,'' John Waters imagines a raucous battle between unruly, polymorphously perverse, life-affirming sex addicts and the uptight neuters who hate sexuality in all its many forms. [read review] --A.O. Scott (The New York Times) Seeing A Dirty Shame makes me wonder if Waters still has the ability to offend. I hope he takes my previous statement as a challenge. [read review]  --Lee Chase IV (CultureDose.net) A Dirty Shame is a banquet, and, by the time it's done, none of the poor suckers are starving. Not for all tastes, to be sure. [read review] --Les Phillips (CineScene)

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