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88The shenanigans have been pared into 84 minutes of transgressive, potty-minded farce, that is often Waters at his most cheerful and most thematically focused.
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80DeMented is Waters the way we like him--spiked with laughs and served with a twist.
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80A fast, furious and funny fusillade of a movie.
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80Cecil B. proves how a dose of smart bad taste can be jolly good fun.
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80Not to be missed, one of the year's best, a whole lotta laughs, and 4-stars all rolled into one.
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78If this movie does anything to rally crowds against cinema's mass distribution of mediocrity then it has served a noble purse.
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75The comedy is frantic and tasteless in the usual Waters mode, but it takes telling potshots at the Hollywood establishment, which isn't nearly so open about the tackiness of its products.
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75It's an audacious little comedy with bursts of hilarity and a certain giddy energy.
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75For movie fans who despair of the state of American cinema, the in-jokes are hilarious.
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75For good and ill, there is only one John Waters.
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75It's Waters' way of saying: It's only a movie.
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70This is a sweet-spirited movie about a nice bunch of kids having good clean fun.
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70Neither Waters' funniest film nor, by a long chalk, his most radical. But it is, as promised, a passing of the torch and an article of suitably perverse faith in the next generation of nutso cinéastes.
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Waters offers a worldview that's uniquely his own.
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70A small, scruffy, but agreeably energized comedy.
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70Funnier than "Pecker" but a far cry from the best of Waters's Divine movies.
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63It's the cinematic equivalent of one of those prop guns where you pull the trigger and a little flag comes out of the barrel, waving gaily.
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60Has a giddy silliness that's thoroughly endearing.
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60Has the grace to send the audience out with a piece of Waters-written rap.
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60Consistently amusing and smart in its choice of targets, but it lacks the manic edge of some of Waters' earlier movies.
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58Has a few viciously funny moments.
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50Weighed down by the presence of Griffith. She plays her satiric part without much gusto or conviction - as if she were afraid we might believe she really is Honey.
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50Not so much a movie as a self-contained world for like-minded people who wear their outsider status on their sleeves.
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50Disappointing and surprisingly crude.
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50Where once Waters was brilliantly polluted, now he comes off diluted.
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50Hamstrung by a script that is too often smug, obvious and self-important.
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50Diverting but uneven.
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38Even with Cecil B. Demented, which fails on just about every level, you've got to hand it to him (Waters): The idea for the film is kind of inspired.
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38Maybe Waters set out to prove Karl Marx's observation that all great events happen twice, first as tragedy and the second time as farce.
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25Shrill and sloppy film.
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20An insufferable, self-important, sloppily made bore.
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8Appears to have been written and directed by a grade-school dropout snorting airplane glue.