Review of Cry-Baby (1990) by Yuriati T — 10 Nov 2009
Cry-Baby (1990) A foreign film guy like me deserves a break occasionally. I love the humor of John Waters. Cry Baby: Poor boy meets rich girl. Boy falls for girl. Boy's friends don't approve. Girl falls for boy.
Girl's friends and family don't approve. Take one part "Romeo and Juliet", one part "Grease", a little bit of the "Outsiders", and a generous helping of "Mad Magazine" mentality, set it in the 50's and add some cool music and it comes close to "Cry-Baby", John Waters strange and campy homage to the star-crossed lover genre.
Bad boy Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker meets good girl Allison Vernon-Williams, and it's love at first sight. Strange Characters good casting that set Water's version of this story apart from the rest.
Think Grease but with freaks and weirdos surrounding the attractive main characters. ha haha In a way this is a teen exploitation film like a rude joyride through another era, full of great clothes and hairdos.
Depp is great as the delinquent juvenile, delivering the melodramatic lines with straight-faced conviction and putting some good fun snap and wiggle into his moves and shakes. Probably created as a loving send up of 1950's teen and juvenile delinquent films.
Clean and ridiculous warmhearted fun with more than a hint of trash. what a fun film. three stars.
This review of Cry-Baby (1990) was written by Yuriati T on 10 Nov 2009.
Cry-Baby has generally received positive reviews.
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