Cry-Baby | Johnny Depp, Amy Locane | The Best Movie Set In the 50s Since Grease!

Cry-Baby | Johnny Depp, Amy Locane | Great! Another Maryland Masterpiece

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	Cry-Baby Johnny Depp, Amy Locane Universal Studios, 1998 average customer review:based on 215 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Best Movie Set In the 50s Since Grease!

"Cry Baby" is the coolest movie since Grease that deals with this time period. The songs are good and the actors in the film are really excellent. I'm a fan of Johnny Depp, and he came through in this movie and him in a lead role set in the 50s worked! This movie is not only a movie that takes place in the 50s, but it feels like a movie that was made in that decade as well. Everything that was big in the movies during that time are seen and used in here. I really enjoyed how this film also dealt with issues people had then and the way people acted and thought.

I also love the music, classic Doo Wop. So if you love movies like Grease, then you need to see this movie. It's not entirely a musical like Grease was, but it still has a few songs in it. But to hear music from this time makes this movie even more real.

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Great! Another Maryland Masterpiece

If you love John Waters then you're already right there with me. I would classify this as a bit tame compared to his other offings and similar in style and irony to the movie Grease but is a more self-aware film.

I love rooting for the Drapes and the idea that the Squares can become Drapes, which, thematically, seems to be a Waterian theme - that we can all get along if we have sex with each other. Which is probably true John.

Oh yeah, and Johnny Depp is young here and cool and I think you will enjoy seeing both Ricki Lake and Tracy Lords and Willem Dafoe as well (I know I did).

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Waters Gets Wet With Cry Baby

John Waters who likes to be called the "Pope of Trash" has done a lot of films that are outrageous in style such as "Cecil B. Demented," "Pecker," & "Hairspray." "Cry Baby" is a 1990 musical that is utterly silly and frothy, but works nevertheless. Johnny Depp, now a big box office draw and critical success with Oscar nominations for "Finding Neverland" & "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," can be proud of the rockabilly Elvis-type singer he plays named Wade "Cry Baby" Walker. Depp performs his "Jailhouse Rock" type number with great energy and rebellion. Having him run through sewage pipes in his underwear is enough to set many a teenage girl's hearts aflutter. The female lead is Allison played by Amy Locane who worked in other films like "Airhead," "The Mummy" & "Bongwater." She does a good Olivia Newton John-like "Grease" character of the square girl who has a crush on Depp's bad boy. Stephen E. Miller who was recently seen in "RV" with Robin Williams and previously in "The Accused" with Jody Foster does a good job as the square boyfriend Baldwin who loses his girl to Cry Baby.

The supporting cast also frolics and froths with Ricki Lake as sister Pepper who is intensely pregnant. Iggy Pop plays the daddy Belevedere and takes a scrub bath in a tub sudsing up favorite parts of his anatomy with gusto. Traci Lords who was an adult film star plays Wanda to the hilt. The deleted scene where she sits in an oversized champagne glass while other hotties romp nearby is way over the top. Kim McGuire plays the character Hatchet Face with a permanent mug. Susan Tyrell who actually was nominated for an Oscar in 1972 for "Fat City" plays the biker matriarch Ramona. She recently appeared with Bob Dylan in the film "Masked & Anonymous." Polly Bergen does a nice job as Mrs. Vernon Williams, Allison's grandmother, who emphasizes propriety but encourages her granddaughter to follow her heart. Patricia Hearst (the same I think) who also worked with Waters on "Pecker" & "Cecil B. Demented" does a nice job as the naive mother who uses the "F" word in the courtroom. "Cry Baby" is meant for pure entertainment; and that it does! Enjoy!

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just plain weird!

Having no idea what to expect, this movie was just plain weird! Didn't know Depp could do what he does in this film. If you're looking for a "Grease" look-alike, this one is definitely one to try for something different!

Campy...cute

Sort of like Grease/Outsiders gone crazy. Good movie and performances. I had no idea Johnny Depp could sing. I enjoyed the "jail house rock" spoof, and the music is great. Not a GREAT movie though, couldn't touch Grease or American Graffiti. But it IS worth watching.

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