Cecil B. Demented, the latest from John Waters, is a very funny and original hollywood satire. Melanie Griffith plays Honey Whitlock, a hollywood star who is captured by "cinema terrorists" led by Stephen Dorff as the title character. Their mission is to "punish bad cinema," as they fight against the crap that hollywood is pushing on audiences today. They force Honey to act in their movie, where they invade movie theatres playing bad films (when they got to a theatre playing Patch Adams: The Dircetor's Cut Cecil yells "Patch Adams does not deserve a director's cut! The first one was long enough!")and, in the most inspired scene in the movie, even sabotage the set of Forrest Gump 2: Gumped Again, starring Kevin Nealon. The movie is very funny with a great script by Waters (sample line: when Honey asks one of the terrorists why he uses so many drigs, he responds, "before I took drugs I had many problems. Now I just have one.) The performances are great, with Griffith giving her best performance since...well ever. I actually liked her in this movie! Dorff was good too, and the rest of the cast is fantastic. There is one very lame scene where the whole cast sings "Demented Forever" but the rest of the movie is strong. Hollywood gets a good scering, but Waters does not let his cinema terrorists off the hook without getting some good laughs at their expence too. Very funny.
Review of Cecil B. Demented
