SummaryRude, joyous and full of sexual anarchy, this John Waters comedy has a generous heart and a dirty mind. (Fine Line Features)
Directed By:John Waters
Written By:John Waters
A Dirty Shame
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56
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4.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
56
47% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
32% Mixed
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21% Negative
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88
A Dirty Shame is certainly dirty, and maybe it's even a shame. But this is the John Waters we've come to know and cherish, and that alone is cause to celebrate.
75
A big, lascivious punch line about America's peculiar, embarrassed, hypocritical relationship with sex.
70
John Waters has returned to trashy form with what is unquestionably his most outrageous film since those heady "Pink Flamingos" days.
60
Embracing ugliness, lousy production values, and borderline hysteria as virtues, A Dirty Shame is one for the cultists, a proud retreat back into the sandbox of sexual juvenilia, a potty-mouthed manifesto from an elder statesman of shock.
50
The humor is more childish than raunchy, but it's interesting to see that becoming a big-time Broadway impresario hasn't led Waters to sell out his affection for gross-out gags.
30
Predictable outrage.
25
Monotonous, repetitive and sometimes wildly wrong in what it hopes is funny.
User score
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4.8
25% Positive
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6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Oct 27, 2013
6
A Dirty Shame is all porn. John Waters PORN. A Dirty Shame is downright a big piece of golden trash from Pink Flamingoes director John Waters. Why u ask? Because no one can handle the explicit sexuality in the NC-17 version, it's what John Waters does. From the **** jokes or spreading salsa over breasts- it's NC-17. When I finished this film I thought- WTF? It's really about sex addicts in a neighbourhood. But why is it so funny? Because even the dirtiness in this movie, makes it real Waters entertainment. It's so bad its good.
