Very well executed

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Being a Tracey Ullman fan and also having enjoyed other John Waters films, I thought I would like this one, but I really thought it was a waste of time and money. There was a lot of potentially really funny stuff in the movie, but the acting and/or direction really fell flat. Tracey Ullman was just ho-hum in her characterizations which I had thought would be ROFLMAO but they weren't. There was not enough contrast between her before-concussion persona and after. She would have been way better if more uptight before and more gross-out nymphomaniac after. Maybe this movie should be remade, with a bigger budget and better joke timing, and let the great actors who can do multiple characterizations like Tracey Ullman really show their good stuff!

John Waters was truly a seventies icon because of his appetite for trashy and low budget filmmaking. Because of content, a number of his films earned the rare but strict "NC-17" rating for things I'm sure no other movie has even come close to - Pink Flamingos (Rated R: Wide range of perversions in explicit detail) for example. Waters attempts to come back in the 2000's and give the world a taste of A Dirty Shame, when all it does it sink his ship and proves that in the 2000's Waters is likely to never be as big as he once was.Most likely because in the 2000's, we've seen a lot dirtier things on Television and other movies. The film centers around sexual fetishes which aren't even explored in explicit form. The famous "water bottle" scene isn't even shown in its entirety. If I'm not mistaking, I though "NC-17" meant that anything goes.The plot is about an uptight suburban mom named Sylvia Stickles (Ullman) with a husband Vaughn (Isaak), and a stripper for a daughter named Caprice (Blair). They live on Hartford Road which has its social groups; the neuters and the perverts. When Sylvia gets hit on the head she suddenly becomes sex crazy and meets the "sex saint" mechanic named Ray-Ray Perkins (Knoxville). Ray-Ray runs an underground sort of perverts club for the neighborhood and his goal is turn all of Hartford Road into perverts.John Waters proves what was dirty back then, doesn't live up to its name now. A Dirty Shame is nothing but constant unfunny sex jokes. Not even the fact that this film has them makes it the least bit funny. Some of the fetishes the film explains are putrid and absolutely despising, but some may have them which is the funny part. I think that is the goal for Waters. I think he wants people to cringe and be disgusted. I'm not even sure if he's trying to make a good film at all.The only two things that remotely save A Dirty Shame from being one are its soundtrack and Johnny Knoxville. The soundtrack includes the songs Let's Go Sexin, Red Hot, and a few others to make the music for the film favorable and Knoxville plays a great, offbeat comedy guy which will likely be his calling when he retires from Jackass or becomes absorbed in other things.I have no problem with language, sex, drugs, or anything in any movie. I do have a problem when filmmakers feel they have to just randomly include sexual references and nudity every chance they get. It becomes monotonous, not funny, and just plain stupid. There is hardly anything in A Dirty Shame that's funny, memorable, or even watchable. It's sick and ill-behaved - the sad part is it loves itself for being like that.During the trailer for the film, Waters holds a book titled Suicide in the Entertainment Industry by David K. Fraser when the narrator exclaims "from the director of Hairspray and Pink Flamingos." I couldn't agree more with the choice of book.Starring: Tracy Ullman, Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, Suzanne Shepperd, and Mink Stole. Directed by: John Waters.

I absolutely enjoyed this movie up until the final scene. The final climax is rather anticlimactic but I guess there isn't much further this one could have gone without getting into the gross and unspeakable. We still have Pink Flamngos for that. The music for this segment did not help matters. So why 7 stars? This movie is something of a middle finger to the motion picture ratings board in America. If not for the documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, I wouldn't have even known about it. Kudos there. If you have not seen This Film Is Not Yet Rated, I urge you to do so. I no longer care to see a film until it is out on DVD and then I will be looking for the Director's Cut and/ or Unrated version. It's laughable to think that Waters expected anything less than a NC-17 rating for this film. While it's sad that NC-17 equates to the kiss of death. See it. It's a riot... reminds me of Shaun of the Dead.

I don't know I like John Waters movies a lot, I have to listen to my bf telling me how crap they are I like them because they are different and entertaining but I just thought this one wasn't good at all, mostly because the 60's and 70's gave to Waters movie something else that we don't have this days, maybe the music, the clothes, all the retro elements to make this movie more cheesy than they already are. so No I didn't enjoy this movie, only at some points that it was truly stupid and funny but besides that I think its a dirty shame to watch it. And I know Im gonna be criticized by all Waters fans but I really don't think this movie was good...