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Cecil B Demented (DVD) |
| Date: |
12/02/01 (40 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Some funny moments
Disadvantages: Poor overalll movie
Starring the linkes of Starring Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Ricki Lake, Patricia Hearst and Mink Stole. Written , not to mention the fact this is directed by John Waters, this film has the credientials to be a very good project indeed. However, any hope about this film should certainly end here!
This film follows a group of cinema loving anarchists, driven on the idea that making a film would create the ultimate orgasm, as long as the film is completely free of the Hollywood establishment. To get what they want, the group kidnaps an aging starlet, whose career has gone down the tube with continuingly grating sap films. This actress, Honey Whitlock (Griffith), is forced to fight for their cause even though the establishment has always been good to her. But the teachings of the group's Ed Wood-like director Cecil B. Demented (Dorff) helps her see the error of her ways.
The acting is horrendous in this film, with actors parading across the set like they are in a junior school play. There's more overacting here than in the entire Filmographies of Marlon Brando and Charlton Heston.The film looks nothing short of diabolical either!
Cecil B. Demented is an angry film that works only when it keeps the anger in the background. When these people are going nuts over a big-budget remake of Forrest Gump, their violent outbursts are often times a bore. It is when they really let their love of films show that it becomes a genuine film to watch, like the scene in which each character shows a tattoo touting a favorite director.
This film tries so hard to be funny, you feel sad in a way that it fails so dismally. However, nothing much can be said about his film in a positive aspect, except that it does have the odd imaginative moments.
For me, this is certainly not the kind of film you’d want to see twice!
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