- Studio: Lions Gate Films
- Release Date: Apr 26, 2002
- Starring: Brian O'Halloran, Bryan Johnson
- Summary: The misadventures of Will, a struggling professional clown, determined to make a living performing at kids' parties. Downtrodden in every respect, Will reinvents himself as Vulgar, the transvestite clown, improving his fortunes with his shock performances at bachelor parties. (Lions Gate Films)
- Director: Bryan Johnson
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 10
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Mixed: 0 out of 10
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Negative: 9 out of 10
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75To say that Vulgar is not for all tastes might be the understatement of the year. For starters, this black comedy has a male rape scene that makes the one in "Deliverance" seem mild by comparison.
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20First-time director Bryan Johnson's failure to resolve the films two moods -- psychopathic sexual brutality and light social satire -- proves fatal.
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10The acting tends toward the cartoonish (not in a good way), and the story is built on a series of illogical motivations.
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Johnson does seem to have some psycho-sexual ax to grind amid all this visual and sexual crudity. For instance, women barely figure in the action, with Will taking on various stereotypical feminine attributes. But good luck finding meaning in all this mess.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 21
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Mixed: 1 out of 21
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Negative: 13 out of 21
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EllenA8
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StephenC.1
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JakeH.0I don't know what anyone else thinks.... but this was horrifically disurbing
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JohnC0Ugly, absurd and absolutely terrible. So dirty you will need a few showers after this one.
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