A Dirty Shame
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Ed Grant -- Video Business, 5/31/2005
Color, NC-17/R and NC-17 rated versions (mature themes, brief nudity, strong language), 88 min. plus supplements, widescreen, 5.1 surround
DVD: $27.95
Street: June 14
First Run: L, Sept. 2004, $1.3 mil.
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From Divine to Curly Howard is a strange journey to take, but John Waters affirms here that his latest film is a "Three Stooges sex education film," because the entire plot hinges on various characters getting slapstick concussions that turn them into "sex addicts." The Three Stooges comparison exemplifies the way in which Waters has become a multiplex-friendly filmmaker who makes conventional comedies instead of willfully imaginative acts of provocation. However puerile the humor might be in the film, Waters has been providing charmingly convivial audio commentaries since the laserdisc era and does a grand job for this NC-17 picture--which is chockfull of obscene language and ideas but contains not a single frame of actual sex. Waters' most salient remarks, however, are repeated in Mark Rance's 82-minute documentary "All the Dirt on A Dirty Shame;" these include the fact that Waters was able to find financing for the film based on a commitment by Jackass star Johnny Knoxville. Waters' commentary is supplemented by a second track in which four of his longtime production associates hold forth, joined by the film's greenskeeper (suggestive trees figure heavily in the movie). In the documentary, Waters and the cast gleefully explain the film's sexual terminology at length and in one particularly informative bit, we're treated to a detailed demonstration of the wet-and-messy (and really silly-looking) "splooshing" fetish. Waters' special take on his hometown of Baltimore, the insanely large prosthetic breasts sported by Selma Blair and the strange "electric charge" that went through the cast as they recited dialog about fetishes night and day for a month are all explored in the documentary, making it, for better or worse, more solidly entertaining than the film itself. Maybe Stooge humor and a sex-fetish romp don't blend as smoothly as Waters thought they would.
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