I'm not a John Waters fan, but he makes good films. This one, cause of it's R rated appeal, interested me. I'm bloody glad I saw it back in 2005 and a few times after. I never expected it to be this funny where the laugh ratio's high. Knoxville, in my opinion, steals the movie. You wouldn't think Tracy Ullman, always great, would show up in this. And we cannot forget the daughter, Selma Blair, with humongus, you know, it must be a chore to carry them around. She's been kept under lock and key by the mother, and I spose you're asking why. Guess? Ullman becomes a sex addict, after a visit from a mythical figure, Shining Ray, Knoxville. This is the opposite of who she really is, so you can the madness that awaits for the virgin view. How it ends is something that must be seen, prior to that, someone gets knocked out, by David Hasselhoff's poo, not the first time, the narcissistic star has played himself. I think Waters is a genius, for creating something so damn funny, it warrants a few re watches. No one lacks is performance, especially the enthused Knoxville. If you love comedy, black or other, you'll kill yourself with laughs, this one will have in chortles all through. Truly underestimated comedy of laughs.

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 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...

One of John Waters best yet. Waters writes and directs this quirky and raunchy comedy about an underground subculture of sex addicts led by Ray Ray(Johnny Knoxville). Sylvia(Tracey Ullman)is an uptight frigid middle-aged woman with sex being the last thing on her mind. Her husband Vaughn(Chris Issak)however still has those urges for the horizontal bop. She even keeps her daughter Caprice(Selma Blair),kept in a garage apartment under lock and key. The daughter with mammoth sized breasts is actually under house-arrest due to charges of indecent exposure and public nudity stemming from her striptease act. Suburban Baltimore is up in arms about the trend of public sexual expression. When Sylvia suffers a concussion, she eases into Ray Ray's band of sex addicts trying to discover a new and the perfect sex act. Big Ethel(Suzanne Shepard)tries gathering as many "Neuter" folks she can. The "Neuters" are basically prudes that are trying to take their neighborhoods back from the sex addicts that love to "go sexin'" Funny, funny, funny. Also in the cast: Mink Stole, Patricia Hearst, Wes Johnson and Jackie Hoffman.