Cecil B. Demented | | Cast : | Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff | | Director : | John Waters | | Studio : | Artisan Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Widescreen, Closed-captioned, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 01, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | October 23, 2001 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 13, 2005 | | Summary | This movie is one of John waters worst | Content
 | This movie was a suprising dissapointment after watching it. I barely cracked a smile through most of it. (Notice its not in his recent "john waters collection". Reasoning is because it stinks! His films are slipping with each one coming out. Pecker was awful too, a dirty shame was ok. Check out his earlier movies for some real trashy fun but if you must with this one please rent it first! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 22, 2005 | | Summary | Stephen & John Waters Rock! | Content
| Stephen rocks in this movie and that's good to see compared to his latest unsuccessful releases. He's demented and devilishly sexy just the way he needs to be. His portrayal of Cecil will not only have you laughing your head off but you'll find yourself impatient to see what happens next. He leaves the entire cast in the dust except for Alicia Witt who put in an equally interesting and terrific performance as Cecil's pornstar girlfriend Cherish. Stephen brings charm to this role and it will remind his true fans of his role as Deacon Frost in terms of sexuality and creativity. Stephen is a gifted actor and though Cecil B. Demented isn't the best movie at times, it's Cecil himself that carries it along. Definitely the best John Waters flick too and I definitely think Stephen and John should reunite in the future. Suffer for Celluloid! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 15, 2005 | | Summary | Demented movie makers | Content
| This film is not so bad that it's funny. This is so bad that it's terrible. Aimed at 14-year old males, hung up on masturbation, in love with four letter words, and needing a lot of action every three minutes, the movie fails to be entertaining, enlightening, or even credible. It's soft porn for the masses. It's a clinic on bad acting and witless direction.
I watched this miserable flick on the Independent Film Channel the other evening, again marveling at the lack of quality programming those people come up with. If this is what film has come to in our time, we are sinking faster than anyone imagines. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 08, 2005 | | Summary | Watch Out for Those "Genre Specific" Audiences | Content
| Any film with Alicia Witt and Maggie Gyllenhaal has very good things going for it visually. And although a little weird for mainstream audiences, "Cecil B. DeMented is a very entertaining film. Imagine a spoof about the American film industry and American movie audiences, packaged as a cross between "Dr. Strangelove" and "State and Main".
It is after all a John Waters film, and a film set in his hometown of Baltimore. Which means the jokes will be hit-and-miss, with many best appreciated by film industry insiders. But the obvious fun the cast has playing their out-there characters is infectious. Melanie Griffith (Tippi Hedren's daughter) has a ball tweaking her diva image as she plays an aging star gradually won over to the cause of her kidnappers (insert Patti Hearst here who actually has a small part in the picture). Alicia Witt gives her best ever performance as the delectable porn star turned revolutionary. The best scene is when she and her fellow film revolutionaries hide out at a porn theater showing "Rear Entry", an anal epic co-starring Witt and a randy gerbil.
Stephen Dorff, before he went insane and got involved with Pamela (slug) Anderson, does a good job as the title character. But watch closely for an absolutely glowing performance by Gyllenhaal. She is something special with lines like: "I haven't had this much fun since my last livestock mutilation!"
Worth watching if you have a sense of humor, even better if you are demented. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 04, 2005 | | Summary | "Who Cares What Anyone Thinks?...Except, Satan!" | Content
| In this John Waters movie we have a renegade crew of underground filmmakers making their first movie. This is a movie about making a movie. This "gang of cinematic terrorists" is headed by Cecil B. Demented (Stephen Dorff) who directs the movie and leads all of his "sprocketholes". They kidnap the stuck-up and ultra bitchy Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith) to save her from her bad career. She is the star of their film, and they at first, force her to do everything, but she soon becomes one of them. They use "real life violence", so in their movie people die, and they are all in hiding because they are up for the death penalty. They film their movie throughout the city targeting a local strip mall with a movie theater playing Patch Adams. Then a Maryland film festival which beforehand goes on live television to make a statement against them. It's hilarious with a purposely tacky element that's always present in Water's movies.
Long live guerilla film making! |
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