Pink Flamingos (1972)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 7
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Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 19,379
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Renegade filmmaker and noted aficionado of expressive bad taste John Waters exploded into international infamy with this darkly comic, no-budget parade of the perverse (his third feature film, and first in color), in which plus-size cross-dresser Divine stars as Babs Johnson, a flashy criminal on the lam from the FBI who is hiding out in a trailer outside of Baltimore, MD. Accompanying Babs are her mother (Edith Massey), an obese and dim-witted woman who is malignly obsessed with eggs; her
Mar 17, 1972 Wide
Jun 14, 2005
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Divine
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David Lochary
Raymond Marble -
Mink Stole
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Mary Vivian Pearce
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Edith Massey
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Danny Mills
Cracker -
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Cookie Mueller
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Linda Olgeirson
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Paul Swift
Eggman -
Susan Walsh
First Kidnaped Woman -
Channing Wilroy
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All Critics (43) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (7) | DVD (12)
While the film now looks primitive and even more amateurish, it is laudable, if that's the right word, because unlike most movies being made these days, almost everything that happens in it is absolutely, horrifyingly real.
Waters works best with some restrictions on his license. He's much better as a subversive than he is an anarchist.
I am not giving a star rating to Pink Flamingos, because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object.
Waters demonstrates visual talent and entertains
But what made Waters unique was the joyous quality of his work, the wicked delight he took in trashy obscenity.
This bad-taste comedy put John Waters on the map as the propeht of low budget, trashy but signficant indie films
What was considered shocking in the 1970s seems benign today.
gag-inducing and breathtaking at the same time.
People complain about shock cinema and how far it has to go now to penetrate our jaded, desensitized sensibilities. Come meet the grandfather of it all!
Raunchy and joyous!
[A] demented comedy that defecates on everything the '60s stood for, and then allows the drag queen in the lead to eat in, right on camera.
Still succeeds as an all-out assault on good taste.
Infamously sick and certainly worth seeing ... but don't expect much.
Gaudy, outrageous...it's John Waters!
Audience Reviews for Pink Flamingos
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- Babs Johnson: Honey! Why are we out of afterbirth?
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- Connie Marble: I guess there's just two kind of people Miss Sandstone. My kind of people, and ass holes. It's rather obvious which category you fit into. Have a nice day.
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