A Dirty Shame
John Waters
A Dirty Shame, an overblown parody of the rampant paranoia about sexual liberation, is classic Waters. It's littered with his favourite ensemble players (Mink Stole, Patricia Hearst, Ricki Lake) and revels in the fact that he could make a perfectly reasonable point with this movie and instead chooses to make an extreme one. Why stop at a golden shower when it could be Roman instead? (If you don't want to know, don't see the movie.) Why make Knoxville's Ray-Ray a cult leader when he could be a Christ figure instead?
A Dirty Shame is chock-a-block full with some fairly silly shenanigans, but it's this attitude that Waters is trying to convey, albeit in the crudest ways sex is a ridiculous act in itself, and taking it all so seriously just makes it seem sillier. (Alliance Atlantis)