Review

The gleefully dirty and sex-positive John Waters we love is back again with his goofy new ode to sex A Dirty Shame. Expect no profundities, only silliness and plenty of gross-out jokes. Baltimore's Harford Road is filled with lust and frumpy Sylvia Stickles (Ullman) doesn't like it one bit. Her husband Vaugn (Isaak) just wants to have sex all the time and shame of all shames, her daughter Caprice (Blair) has enormous fake tits and is under court order for her nymphomania. One day as Sylvia is on the way to work at her mother Big Ethel's convenience store she's hit over the head by a lawnmower and knocked unconscious. As she wakes up, sex god Ray-Ray Perkins adminsters a special kind of first aid and her pussy comes to life, for the first time ever! Sylvia wants men down in her vagina, now and she's horny. The neighborhood is divided among the "neuters" and the sex addicts. For Mr. Waters many gay fans, there's a house of bears, called "The Bear Cave" and a threesome couple always looking for fun! With all this going on, the neighborhood is in a panic and Big Ethel Marge the Neuter (Mink Stole) organize a "Decency League".

Filled with classic John Waters silliness there's an oversized tongue, very unusual sexual fetishes and even some sex spirituality thrown in for good measure. Wild over-the-top and loads of fun, don't listen to the critics, they never like John Waters anyway. Run out and mount this movie...

 -- Scott Cranin