How is this not on a single official list? One of the most subversive musicals of all time. I doubt something like Hedwig and the Angry Inch would exist if not for this film. Also: check out the face Traci Lords makes while getting her Polio vaccination!
John Waters' Cry-Baby spoofs Grease, Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story with wild, camp abandon, and manages to be its own animal in the process, with memorable songs, characters and set pieces. But if this is Baby Boomer nostalgia, it's a nostalgia filtered through a satirical lens, reminding us that the greaser 50s weren't as romantic as memory and movies make us think it was. It's a 50s teen musical for the CHILDREN of Baby Boomers, forced to sit through the real thing every holiday season (and then endless talk about how your parents used to dress like that, dance like that, be racist like that). If the characters are largely caricatures, it's part of the point, and entirely amusing. Fair warning, there are some John Waters jokes in the film that might gross out or even disturb, but it all works with the ridiculousness of this world where teenagers live too passionately, only one dimension removed from our own, really.
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"Electricity makes me insane!"Amuda
Whaaaaaat the fuck did I just watch!?!?!? :'Dessaywhu
How is this not on a single official list? One of the most subversive musicals of all time. I doubt something like Hedwig and the Angry Inch would exist if not for this film. Also: check out the face Traci Lords makes while getting her Polio vaccination!Siskoid
John Waters' Cry-Baby spoofs Grease, Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story with wild, camp abandon, and manages to be its own animal in the process, with memorable songs, characters and set pieces. But if this is Baby Boomer nostalgia, it's a nostalgia filtered through a satirical lens, reminding us that the greaser 50s weren't as romantic as memory and movies make us think it was. It's a 50s teen musical for the CHILDREN of Baby Boomers, forced to sit through the real thing every holiday season (and then endless talk about how your parents used to dress like that, dance like that, be racist like that). If the characters are largely caricatures, it's part of the point, and entirely amusing. Fair warning, there are some John Waters jokes in the film that might gross out or even disturb, but it all works with the ridiculousness of this world where teenagers live too passionately, only one dimension removed from our own, really.Dieguito
Grease with Deppthaisquisito
That girl hatchet face gave me nightmaresNuclearPlanet
"Great with Depp" Directed BY John Waters...This was Great Fun BTW!!!