Movie- A Dirty Shame

John Waters film's, I think, are an acquired taste. He is gross, and distasteful and sometimes disgusting. He also can be very funny.

A Dirty Shame (2004)falls somewhere in between his grossest and his funniest, being neither. Starring Tracey Ullman, as a housewife who becomes a nymphomaniac after a head injury, the movie is all about sex. But some critics fail to see the irony of a movie all about sex, actually making fun of our sexual culture. And while I see that clearly, there are still many points where the movie is still downright dumb.

Ullman plays Sylvia, who becomes part of a cult, led by Ray Ray (Johnny Knoxville), and she is prophesied to bring into the world a new and ultimate sexual act. Into the tableau is Selma Blair with largest boob job ever imagined (OK, that one stripper in Montreal was actually fairly close) and other strange and randy characters with every fetish thought of...and that I think is the point.

Waters seems to be saying...we have become so bored with sex, we have to make up new fetishes,just to amuse ourselves, just to keep ourselves interested. What does that say about us?

Anyway, the movie is not great by any means. And I found it sometimes really stupid...but there was also some intrigue to the sub-text and some genuine humor to it, that made me stick with it.

Now, as Ray Ray would say---"Let's go sexin'!"