Cecil B. Demented (2000)
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Critic Consensus: The idea behind John Waters' latest has much potential, but the movie ends up being too sloppy and underdeveloped in terms of script and direction. Also, by today's standards, it fails to shock.
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Cast
as Cecil B. Demented
as Honey Whitlock
as Lyle
as Cherish
as Lewis
as Raven
as Rodney
as Petie
as Dinah
as Dinah
as Chardonnay
as Fidget
as Mrs. Mallory
as Fidget's Mother
as Libby
as Pam
as Himself
as Charles
as Fidget
as Herself
as Honey's Ex-husband
as Ticket Seller
as Roy Stillings
as Maid
as Mayor Adam Fenwick
as William, boy in wheelchair
as Newscaster
as Child
as Child
as Child
as Box Office Lady
as Ticket taker
as Candy counter girl
as Theatre manager
as Pucker
as Teen boy
as Charles Theater girl
as Film commissioner
as Producer
as Studio Executive
as Family woman
as Family woman
as Family woman
as Family lady
as Family lady
as Film delivery driver
as Fidget's dad
as Security teamster
as Director
as Director of photography Jean Pierre
as Assistant director
as Large lady
as Shop steward
as Teamster
as Teamster C
as Teamster
as Teamster
as Teamster
as Sniffles
as Groupie
as Moviegoer
as Fan a
as Boy fan
as Girl fan
as Drive-in manager
as Jock
as Evil Jock
as The Psychiatrist
as Cecil's mother
as Cecil's dad
as SWAT cop
as SWAT cop
as Petie's trick
as Raven's groupie
as Mayor's Bodyguard
as Gaffer "Gumped Again"
as Photographer
as Movie Premiere Attendee
as Teamster
as Shucks Oysters
as Movie theatre patron
as Heavy Metal Fan #4
as Movie Premiere Attendee
as Heavy Metal Fan #1
as Movie theater patron
as Swat Team Member
as Waiter in Kitchen
as Jock
as Heavy Metal Fan #2
as Heavy Metal Fan #3
as Reporter
Critic Reviews for Cecil B. Demented
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Where once Waters was brilliantly polluted, now he comes off diluted.
A losing battle.
The problem with John Waters making a movie about the sorry state of commercial cinema is that his output is only a little more useful than what he's satirizing.
Ends up a sloppy exercise in irritating audiences instead of the sharp satire the story line promises.
Not even the reassuring familiarity of the Waters stock company (including Mink Stole, Ricki Lake and, pointedly in this case, Patty Hearst) is enough to fully redeem this effort.
Barely coherent mishmash.
Audience Reviews for Cecil B. Demented
At first, it seems like John Waters wants to make an audacious hate letter to mainstream cinema with some nice moments of brilliance, but then you realize his "revolutionaries" are a bunch of freaking tards and the film gets too over-the-top and all over the place to have a point.
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Full Of GRACE!
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De-ment-ed For-ev-er!!! I have no clue why people think this is not as good as Waters' other work. So vastly under-rated, waaaay better than Sunset Boulevard or Day of the Locust when it comes to a movie about movies.
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