Pink Flamingos (25th Anniversary Edition)

Buy This Item Pink Flamingos (25th Anniversary Edition) by Saliva Films  Available from Amazon  $19.98  on 11-16-2008     This is the movie that made John Waters famous, and quite possibly the film that made bad taste cool. Yes, Virginia, a large transvestite actually eats dog feces as a kind of dizzying denouement to this frequently illogical and intentionally disgusting movie, but by the time that happens, you're already numb and you've possibly laughed to the point of losing bladder control.<p> The plot revolves around two vile families laying claim to the title "The Filthiest People Alive." You've got pregnant women in pits, you've got grown men getting sexual satisfaction from chickens, you've got people licking furniture to perform trailer-park voodoo, and you've got classic lines like: "Oh my God! The couch it it rejected you!" <p> Waters, who went on to direct genuine pop-culture classics such as <I>Hairspray</I> and <I>Serial Mom</I>, made this celluloid sideshow with one aim--to make a name for himself. It worked. He does have a genuine eye for filmmaking (when the trailer burns down, you feel the white heat of Divine's pain and anger). On the other hand, you won't notice any disclaimers about stunt doubles and animals not being mistreated. There weren't, and they were. Welcome to the filthiest film in the world. <I>--Grant Balfour</I> Reader Reviews I'll just tell you straight forward, this isn't an amazing movie. It's not even a good movie. It doesn't try to be either of those. What it IS, is a movie with unsimulated oral sex between a mother and son (the characters, not in real life as plenty of the rest of this movie is), an obese woman constantly covered in eggs, a sex scene with a live chicken, and of course, a fat transvestite chewing on actual dog poo. if you don't like one or all of those things, I suggest not watching this movie. What's the point of angering yourself? If you don't mind seeing any of that stuff in a movie (it didn't bother me), then you'll probably see the movie for what it was intended to be, offensively and darkly funny.

Pink Flamingos (25th Anniversary Edition) Available from Amazon Price: $19.98 Updated on 11-16-2008.

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