Cecil B. Demented | 
| Director: John Waters
Category: DVD
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Rating:  87 reviews
Format: PAL
Languages: Hungarian (Subtitled), English (Unknown), Hungarian (Unknown)
Region: 2
Running Time: 84 Minutes
ISBN: 753074710X
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ASIN: 753074710X
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Cecil B. Demented / Region 2 PAL DVD / Audio: English, Hungarian / Subtitle: Hungarian / Starring: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Larry Gilliard Jr. / Director: John Waters / 84 Minutes
ASIN: 753074710X
DVD Region Code: 2
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 Long Live Guerrilla Film-Making January 31, 2001
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Even if you're not a fan of John Waters, which I am, this movie is worth seeing at least twice. Despite Melanie Griffith's somewhat tepid acting,its absolute absurdity at times will have you laughing long and hard. And not only is it a spectacular comedy but, like all John Waters films, it's got something to say. Cecil and the Sprocket-Holes' absolute disgust of mainstream film, while taken to ridiculous measures, makes one think: Why ARE there so many movies based on video games? Why do we insist on re-making wonderful foreign films just so we don't have to read subtitles? WHY ARE THERE TWO BRADY BUNCH MOVIES?????? Being something of a film coneisseur myself, as well as an aspiring film-maker, this movie held a lot more than a few laughs for me. I often found myself screaming obscenities along with Cecil's misfit gang. Stop the mass distribution of mediocre films. Yeah! Bring back the dream. Yeah!!! Family (as in "family films") is just another word for censorship! YEAH!!!!! Power to the people who punish bad cinema! YEAH!!!!! Ok, so perhaps I need to get a life. Be that as it may, Cecil B. Demented is still a great flick. If nothing else, watch it for the laughs...and the Christmas Trees. You'll see.
Instead of wasting your money on another Kevin Costner movie December 26, 2000
Tracey P (Granite City, IL United States)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
We all know John Waters, and if you don't maybe you should ask yourself why this selection should interest you in the first place. He has created B rate films that were sure to shock the audience, and force them into convulsions. That was the late seventies, and yes everyone must "grow up" (and I use this term loosely.) This movie, unlike most of his work does have a political issue to accompany the unique behaviors displayed by the unique characters. It is a message of insulting the conformist society that pays to see movies like "Runaway Bride," at the theatre. His characters are, as always, well developed and completely motivated in the genre created by Waters. If you believe that society should revolt against the spoonfed cinema forced down the public's throat, like we are mentally challenged infants, this film is definitely for you. It is a movie that is non-passive in its message that it is better to have a strong and passionate viewpoint than no viewpoint at all. DEMENTED FOREVER!
Melanie Griffith's Finest Moment August 2, 2003
Eileen Kelly (Brisbane, Queensland Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The cinematic pairing of John Waters and Melanie Griffith is a match that has been waiting to happen- the master director of "Pink Flamingos" and "Desperate Living" presents the mainstream actress a role of a lifetime and shows what a hilarious actress she really is. The premise of terrorist fimmakers naking their own underground film with a kidnapped mainstream actress not sounds outrageous, it kind of makes sense in a film community delivering products based on computer games or sequels to films that weren't very good to begin with. John Waters reminds us all that there was once a blossoming underground film industry,and Griffith reminds us that not every actor has to win an oscar to be cool. Stephen Dorf also makes an indelible impression in title role, and it's great to see cameos (although they are not long enough for my liking) of legendary dreamlanders Mary Vivian Pearce and Susan Lowe. In my book, an instant classic.
"Who Cares What Anyone Thinks?...Except, Satan!" February 4, 2005
D. Renkens
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In this John Waters movie we have a renegade crew of underground filmmakers making their first movie. This is a movie about making a movie. This "gang of cinematic terrorists" is headed by Cecil B. Demented (Stephen Dorff) who directs the movie and leads all of his "sprocketholes". They kidnap the stuck-up and ultra bitchy Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith) to save her from her bad career. She is the star of their film, and they at first, force her to do everything, but she soon becomes one of them. They use "real life violence", so in their movie people die, and they are all in hiding because they are up for the death penalty. They film their movie throughout the city targeting a local strip mall with a movie theater playing Patch Adams. Then a Maryland film festival which beforehand goes on live television to make a statement against them. It's hilarious with a purposely tacky element that's always present in Water's movies.
Long live guerilla film making!
laughing all the way to hell February 19, 2001
Sondra Rosenberg (Wynnewood, PA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Unlike many other early John Waters fans, I have not been disappointed with his most recent efforts. Though perhaps not as perverse as Pink Flamingoes, as psychotic as Female Trouble or as jaw-droppingly appalling as Desperate Living, Cecil B. Demented is a hilarious, smart and even political film about a band of cinema terrorists (The Sprocketholes) who aim to overthrow Hollywood. Melanie Griffith is absolutely perfect as Honey Whitlock, an aging Hollywood starlet, who is kidnapped by the group and forced to star in their Guerrilla-style film "Raving Beauty." Loaded with characters that only Waters could dream up (an ex-porn star gone celibate for cinema, a male hairdresser who's ashamed of his heterosexuality), killer lines ("before I was a drug addict, I had so many problems; now I just have one - drugs!"), oddball cameos (Rikki Lake as Honey Whitlock's assistant, the spectacular Mink Stole - one of the original Dreamlanders - who dies of a heart attack after Cecil kidnaps Honey, Patty Hearst as a Sprockethole's mother, Kevin Nealon as Forrest Gump in the sequel "Gump Again") and overall fabulous costumes and style, Cecil B. is not to be missed. Where else are you going to find references to Fassbinder, Hershcell Gordon Lewis and Mel Gibson's balls in the span of an hour and a half?
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