Review of Cry-Baby (1990) by Peter Travers for Rolling Stone — 24 Jun 1990
In Cry-Baby, Waters has created a crackpot jamboree that captures the Fifties, then parodies and transcends the period; any resemblance to Nineties greed, prejudice and repression is intentional. At forty-three, Waters remains unrepentantly juvenile.
It’s his saving grace. What he can’t fight, he ridicules. The mirror Waters holds up to the world is distorted, turning everyone into a grotesque. But we can still see ourselves in it And laugh.
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This review of Cry-Baby (1990) was written by Peter Travers and published by Rolling Stone on 24 Jun 1990.
Cry-Baby has generally received positive reviews.
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