Silly satire about a seriously demented Cecil (Stephen Dorff) and his ragtag group kidnapping a popular actress (Melanie Griffith) and forcing her to star in their indie film. The acting is good (especially Dorff and Alicia Witt) and it has funny moments, but it doesn't hang together--it seems to be a series of skits instead of one cohesive story. Also, Waters is no longer the cutting edge filmmaker he thinks he is. He's distressingly mainstream (OK, weird mainstream). The film is very forgettable and doesn't even come close to his early work. Too bad. Like I said, it's better than "Pecker", but that's faint praise. Still this is a bit more "gayer" than his other works and Dorff is easy on the eyes.
Review of Cecil B. Demented
