Review of Pink Flamingos (1976) by Ian M — 14 Mar 2012

Divine eating a turd... Ick. And it was real and made her ill. God rest her. John Waters starting off his trashy intelligent movie making. I love him!

This review of Pink Flamingos (1976) was written by Ian M on 14 Mar 2012.

Pink Flamingos has generally received mixed reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

Pink Flamingos (1976) Movie Reviews (513)
Pink Flamingos (1976) Critic Reviews (20)
Pink Flamingos (1976) User Reviews (493)

More Reviews of Pink Flamingos

Review of Pink Flamingos (1976)

By Stephanie G (564) on 24 Aug 2013

This John Waters film is so disgusting, so poorly made, so over the top, so creepy, and so wrong…

Read Review

Review of Pink Flamingos (1976)

By Brian P (1,844) on 08 Jan 2014

Pink Flamingo may be the filthiest thing I have seen, but perhaps may be enjoyed by the squeamish…

Read Review

Review of Pink Flamingos (1976)

By Greg Klymkiw (20) for Electric Sheep (203) on 16 Aug 2015

Seeing this movie seemed like having a dream of home, and the world of the movie made me feel like I'd found my true home…

Read Review

Review of Pink Flamingos (1976)

By Greg S (1,081) on 11 Apr 2014

Afters years of watching terrible bootleg copies, I finally caught this on the big screen last night in all it's trashy cinematic glory…

Read Review

Review of Pink Flamingos (1976)

By Steven G (866) on 11 Jun 2014

A masterpiece of bad taste cinema…

Read Review

Review of Pink Flamingos (1976)

By Altered E (45) on 10 Sep 2016

This piece is no technical marvel, but it's one of the greatest exploitation films of all time…

Read Review

Review of Pink Flamingos (1976)

By Logan M (1,902) on 05 May 2017

The type people I could recommend Pink Flamingos to are the ones who I wouldn't want to even be in the same room with in the first place…

Read Review

Review of Pink Flamingos (1976)

By Wayne K (446) on 20 Dec 2016

An outrageous and repellent exercise in bad taste whose only infantile objective is to leave you disgusted as if eating dog shit yourself…

Read Review

Review of Pink Flamingos (1976)

By Kara J (29) on 11 Jun 2014

You can only hate or like Pink Flamingos, there's no other reaction. Disgusting in every way and easily the most disturbing movie I have ever seen…

Read Review

Review of Pink Flamingos (1976)

By Jacob D (884) on 14 Sep 2017

One of the most disgusting and inappropriate movies I've ever seen, there are scenes in this movie that I wish I could get out of my head,…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Election (1999)

By Mercurian G (4) on 18 May 2010

A couple of people recommended this to me…

Read Review

Review of Half Baked (1998)

By David Luty (29) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Jan 2000

The film, in spite of any plot, is one sketch after another, some of which fall flat, some of which fall flatter…

Read Review

Review of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

By Anthony B (897) on 27 Aug 2011

I fell asleep. The best scenes are all Steve Martin one liners and physical humour, the youtube clip show is a much better way to watch it…

Read Review

Review of Red Heat (1988)

By Tom D (1,091) on 15 Aug 2014

One of the poorest excuses for an action film I've seen. This movie is, to put it plainly, boring as hell…

Read Review

Review of I Love You Phillip Morris (2010)

By Nazgulero (109) on 17 Jul 2011

Not funny, not original. Jim Carrey plays the same character he played twenty years ago in Pet Detective, and it doesn't work anymore…

Read Review

Review of Boat Trip (2002)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Nov 2004

Had the ghost of Paul Lynde swanned by in a caftan-clad cameo, you couldn't find a more outdated, miscalculated collection of stale, queen-size…

Read Review

Review of Chopper (2000)

By Ruby D (32) on 24 Feb 2015

Shit! There was no story to this movie it was all random…

Read Review

Review of Patrik, Age 1.5 (2008)

By Paritoch M (8) on 27 May 2014

A mediocre cliché drama movie about a gay couple who wish to adopt a child and what they end up with isn't what they expected…

Read Review

Review of Menace II Society (1993)

By Prinzo10 (4) on 09 Feb 2020

As a black man, I have to rate this film poorly. It depicts everything we shouldn't be…

Read Review

Review of Help! (1965)

By Bosley Crowther (448) for The New York Times (9,847) on 19 Oct 1973

The boys themselves are exuberant and uninhibited in their own genial way. They just become awfully redundant and—dare I say it?—dull…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

43%1,173 Reviews

Talk to Me

2023

74%83 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Joker

2019

81%299 Reviews

A Quiet Place

2018

76%1,685 Reviews

The Prodigy

2019

53%39 Reviews

Babylon

2022

68%144 Reviews

Interstellar

2014

83%1,261 Reviews

Past Lives

2023

84%62 Reviews