 |
|
|
|
| MatchFlick Member Reviews |
2 reviews / review this flick
|
|
Cry Baby (1990)
From Amazon:
John Waters's goofy, 1990 comedy about a Baltimore girl (Amy Locane) who can't decide if she should remain "good" in her 1954 world or hang out with the motorcycle boys is funny in a scene-by-scene way, but doesn't quite gel into the grand piece the director was hoping for. The cast is exceptionally likable, however, including Johnny Depp as an Elvis type and Iggy Pop as a chattering loony. The best material is set in a fringe world of bikers and losers on the outskirts of town, and Waters writes some hilarious sardonic dialogue for the characters. Cry-Baby is the last of Waters's more undisciplined features; he followed it with the...
|
|
Cry Baby Movie Review by Ben  (4/19/2008) |
 |
|
|
This has to be the funniest send up of those teen musicals that could only come from the imagination of writer/director John Waters (Hairspray, Pecker).
Starring Johnny Depp and Amy Locane (Blue Sky, Going All the Way) with a supporting cast that is familiar and fun: Polly Bergen ("Desperate Housewives"), Iggy Pop, Ricki...
(complete Cry Baby review by Ben)
| Cry Baby Movie Review by Zara (1/28/2007) |
 |
|
|
A tongue-in-cheek musical about young love between a good girl and a bad boy back in the era of greasers and preps, CRY BABY was an original that came before its time.
Directed in oddball John Waters fashion after he'd put together a similar and vastly more successful film with HAIRSPRAY, CRY BABY follows a motorcycle...
(complete Cry Baby review by Zara)
|
|
|
