Directed by: Jeff Garlin
Released: 2006
I fucking love John Waters. He's insane, trashy, fucking bizarre as hell, a bad influence, and he's completely brilliant. This film is him doing stand-up/storytelling for 90 or so minutes, and I would have watched it for another 90. The shit he has to say is funny, interesting and just plain odd. He tells stories about Divine, Mink Stole and the rest of his cohorts from the early days, talks about filming "Pink Flamingos" (of course), "Desperate Living," "Female Trouble," etc.. he pretty much goes all the way up to his last film, "A Dirty Shame." He also discusses some of his favorite films and directors, almost all of whom were totally unknown to me, but it was interesting to see where the king of sleaze gets his influences from. But his comedy, or whatever you want to call it, often comes across as disjointed. Maybe that was a problem with the editing, but he seems to jump from topic to topic without any transition whatsoever. That wasn't enough to make me dislike this, though-- not by a long shot. My favorite topic from his discussion is how, when given the opportunity, he likes to teach kids how to be juvenile delinquents, something that we really don't have anymore. He tells one story of being somewhere where there's a lot of people, and a little girl comes up to him with her little kid purse and shows it off. "That's a very cute purse!" he says to her. She thanks him. He then says "Did you bring it to steal stuff?" She says "NO!" At which point he asks "Well, would you like to steal some stuff with me? No one will even know it's us." Shit like that. He's a funny, funny guy, and this documentary/standup/whatever shows that perfectly. 8/10.
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