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Embracing ugliness, lousy production values, and borderline hysteria as virtues, A Dirty Shame is one for the cultists, a proud retreat back into the sandbox of sexual juvenilia, a potty-mouthed manifesto from an elder statesman of shock.
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"A Dirty Shame" is another anarchic and outrageously silly,...
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"A Dirty Shame" is another anarchic and outrageously silly, weird and funny trash movie of John Waters. The non-sense story has many hilarious moments, supported by a great cast with the comedians Tracey Ullman and Johnny Knoxville and a surprisingly comical Selma Blair with her huge mammary glands.
Vaughn Stickles (Chris Isaak) and wife, Sylvia (Tracey Ullman), run a convenience store in "A Dirty Shame," a John Waters film full of fetishes but lacking in laughs.
A Dirty Shame received mixed reviews from critics, with its explicitness both lauded and lampooned. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 53% based on 117 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10.
26 kwi 2005 · It's like a madcap B-movie that swaps man-munching zombies for flesh hungry sex addicts and stars Tracey Ullman as a repressed housewife transformed into a randy refugee from a Carry On film.
John Waters casts his provocative eye toward libido in a sex satire that won't leave audiences feeling too Dirty, but this sophomoric farce doesn't strike a nerve like his best work -- a real...
A Dirty Shame is a fabulously funny exploration of fetishism, a look at the ever-more-insane ways people find to 'get off'. Full Review | Original Score: 93/100 | Aug 22, 2005
