Pink Flamingos

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Plot: Taking on and demolishing just about every known middle-class value, a comedy about which concerns itself with a competition for the filthiest person alive. The contestants: Divine, who lives in a tra...( read more read more... )iler with her egg-fixated mama Edie, her sex-obsessed son Crackers, and his voyeuristic travelling companion Cotton, along with Raymond and Connie Marble.

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  • vitorakeda
    vitorakeda
    5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 18, 2008
    Very inspiring.
    If you are stilish and visceral enough, you don´t need good acting, good plot, good story, good themes, money, etc...
  • oscartorrado
    oscartorrado
    3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    November 7, 2008
    One of the most disturbing and nasty films I´ve ever seen, but also is one of the funniest. Pink Flamingos has some really bad performances and a bad edition, but that´s waht it makes this films so enjoyable. Divine is such a character!!!
  • ReeceyBabe
    ReeceyBabe
    5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    October 21, 2008
    I watch this film a long time ago i have to admit this was funny and gross, this has to be John Water's best film but it was brilliant, disgusting but funny at the same time.
  • Shelikesmovies
    Shelikesmovies
    0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 21, 2008
    I didn't mean to rate this movie... I've never seen it... but for some reason Flixter isn't cooperating with me right now.
  • shaman123
    shaman123
    3.5 Stars
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    October 17, 2008
    It took me awhile before I could actually sit down and watch this movie, it took me even longer to review it. I mean, I really could not see how to critique a film like this! Often hailed as the "best worst movie" and quite commonly referred to as the sickest piece of entertainment ever created, John Waters' Pink Flamingos is quite the movie. First off, let me get this out of the way, I did enjoy this, moreover, I thought it was genuinely funny in parts. However, it is still a filthy, disgusting, disturbing and immoral picture.

    To summarise the odd story: Divine/Babs Johnson is known as the "filthiest person alive." She lives with her mum (who has an egg fetish and adores The Egg Man), her retarded son Cracker and daughter Cotton in a trailer. Quizzically enough, there is actually a family who are jealous of Divine's title. The Marble family are envious of Divine and try to outdo them in the category of filthy. Their method?kidnap women, have their cross-dressing butler rape them, sell the babies to lesbians and then use that money to sell drugs to elementary school children. How's that for a plot?! Just to tick off a few of the many delights to be found within this movie: incest, egg fetishes, cannibalism, rape, sh*t eating, chicken sex and copious male and female full frontal nudity. Well, if you are open minded, or have an odd and sick sense of humour you will love it! Pink Flamingos is a non-stop parade of foul scatological and sexual humour. If you do not enjoy that, you may enjoy the pure randomness of some scenes, for instance, a wedding in a wheelbarrow and the most repulsive party scene you will ever see. Notice the amount of synonyms used for disgusting? Admittedly, some parts were hard to watch and very wrong (and would personally never want to see again) but there were still many scenes that honestly just had me in fits of laughter. I do not expect this to be for everyone, but for those that like controversial and extreme underground flicks, this is right up your alley.

    Don't expect any good acting or a great quality plot and camera-work. This is not Oscar-material, this was not meant to be a social satire or thought provoking. It was made to gross out everyone it could. Waters is known for his rather different comedies and this is no exception. Just sit back and try and stomach the outrageous events that go on. And trust me, you NEED a strong stomach! I can not stress that if you are prude and easily offended stay very far away from this movie.

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  • GymNetic25
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    To be quite frank I have seen some films that were beyond anything I have seen before. But this film takes the cake. I thought it was very disturbing and made some sense but was lost around the way. The movie had Divine which I loved in the original hairspray. This Jon Water's film was way over the top for me and not at all fascinating like I thought it was going to be. I would recommend seeing other Water's films that are far superior better than this one. 1 1/2 stars because Divine was the best in it...
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