Yes, I really meant that. I was really crying with both eyes, something very different that occurs with Johnny Depp's character is this movie: he can only cry with one eye. And I really must say this: This movie ruined what was a happy Sunday. It's bad.
In "Cry-Baby" Depp plays the title character, an charming juvenile delinquent that wants to date the girl of his dreams, Allison (Amy Locane) a rich girl. But this is the 1950's and they are part of different social groups. He's a poor rebel and she's a pretty good girl that only walks along with rich boys. She likes Cry-Baby and follows him into several adventures. In the middle of that we have oldies Goldie's music and annoying characters such as Hatchet-Face (Kim McGuire, she scared me the whole movie), the pregnant Cry-Baby's sister (Ricki Lake) and many others.
I expected to see something similar to "Grease" or "American Graffitti" but it has nothing to do with both movies. It may be the same period, it may have the same clothes and that stuff in the hair but it's something really boring, unfunny, unpleasant, pointless and no sense of direction. And the songs played here plays all the time making this movie very sickening.
No one is safe here. Johnny Depp, OK he's good looking here but he doesn't have a good performance here, and he's dubbing the songs. Same thing happened with Amy Locane. Most absurd than that is the fact that Iggy Pop (he's good actor here) doesn't sing in the movie and Willem Dafoe was diminished in a cameo. What was John Waters thinking when he made this movie?
Other thing that bothers me is people saying that this is one of the best movies of all time, claiming that this is a masterpiece. My friends and enemies I'll say this: If you think that "Cry-Baby" is a cinema masterpiece then you don't know what movies are and not even had the chance to see a great movie with a substantial plot. But you always have the chance to learn. Don't watch it no matter how beautiful is the boys and girls in this wreck. Most of all don't waste time and money, I waste my time so that other people don't waste theirs. Thumbs Down for this!
In "Cry-Baby" Depp plays the title character, an charming juvenile delinquent that wants to date the girl of his dreams, Allison (Amy Locane) a rich girl. But this is the 1950's and they are part of different social groups. He's a poor rebel and she's a pretty good girl that only walks along with rich boys. She likes Cry-Baby and follows him into several adventures. In the middle of that we have oldies Goldie's music and annoying characters such as Hatchet-Face (Kim McGuire, she scared me the whole movie), the pregnant Cry-Baby's sister (Ricki Lake) and many others.
I expected to see something similar to "Grease" or "American Graffitti" but it has nothing to do with both movies. It may be the same period, it may have the same clothes and that stuff in the hair but it's something really boring, unfunny, unpleasant, pointless and no sense of direction. And the songs played here plays all the time making this movie very sickening.
No one is safe here. Johnny Depp, OK he's good looking here but he doesn't have a good performance here, and he's dubbing the songs. Same thing happened with Amy Locane. Most absurd than that is the fact that Iggy Pop (he's good actor here) doesn't sing in the movie and Willem Dafoe was diminished in a cameo. What was John Waters thinking when he made this movie?
Other thing that bothers me is people saying that this is one of the best movies of all time, claiming that this is a masterpiece. My friends and enemies I'll say this: If you think that "Cry-Baby" is a cinema masterpiece then you don't know what movies are and not even had the chance to see a great movie with a substantial plot. But you always have the chance to learn. Don't watch it no matter how beautiful is the boys and girls in this wreck. Most of all don't waste time and money, I waste my time so that other people don't waste theirs. Thumbs Down for this!