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  • 2002
  • R
  • Cinemax
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2002
  • R
  • Cinemax
  • 1 h 27 m

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)

Directed By: Bryan Johnson

Written By: Bryan Johnson

  • 2002
  • R
  • Cinemax
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2002
  • R
  • Cinemax
  • 1 h 27 m

Vulgar

Metascore Overwhelming Dislike Based on 10 Critic Reviews
5
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 47 User Ratings
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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)

Directed By: Bryan Johnson

Written By: Bryan Johnson

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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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90% Negative
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To 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.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
10
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.
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10
The acting tends toward the cartoonish (not in a good way), and the story is built on a series of illogical motivations.
By Andy Klein FULL REVIEW
0
Sure to appear in everyone's worst-of lists at year's end, to say nothing of a few bad dreams, Bryan Johnson's Vulgar is an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse.
By Mark Holcomb FULL REVIEW
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Inexplicably mixing lamer-than-lame "bad taste" comedy with yea worse traumatized-assault-victim histrionics, pic's only entertainment value lies in viewer weighing whether pic is primarily a.) offensive b.) amateurish c.) pathetic or d.) a cry for help.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
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Too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy, Vulgar is, truly and thankfully, a one-of-a-kind work.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
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The only thing shocking about it, however, is the degree to which self-congratulatory gutter exhibitionism has become the degraded ash end of indie ''edge.''
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 47 User Ratings
2.0
17% Positive
8 Ratings
6% Mixed
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77% Negative
36 Ratings

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 47 User Ratings
2.0
17% Positive
8 Ratings
6% Mixed
3 Ratings
77% Negative
36 Ratings

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Production Company Chango Productions, Shongo Filmworks Ltd., View Askew Productions
Release Date Apr 26, 2002
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Everybody loves a clown... some more than others.
Website http://www.viewaskew.com/vulgar/
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