I just watched the movie I´ve longed to see for quite a while - Cry Baby. I was told it´s really good and I´m glad to say I was told right. So sparkling! I am not a 50s aficionado - let alone a fan of it´s darkest level rockabilly - but I just have to like Cry Baby because it relishes all possible advantages of going 50s retro and manages to skip the disadvantages. There was not a single red circle skirt with white polkadots (hideous) or pin up tattoos for women (horrendous) to be spotted in this film, just cute leather jackets and scarlet lips. And hectic rock´n roll could never sound good anywhere else than in this film.
I admit I don´t usually like parodies. I hate it when a director can´t make a cinema and ends up with flavouring a crappy copy of some contemporary film with indecent splatter. But Cry Baby isn´t just a parody of Grease and other swanky movies inspired by the 50s. It´s an independent and sensitive piece of work, beautifully absurd and self-ironic. And Johnny Depp is obviously smashing as the protagonist Wade "Cry Baby" Walker.
I know - dislikers may claim that the whole film leans on his charisma. It isn´t entirely untrue. But that is how it is with the Pirates of the Caribbean, too - and pretty much every film he is starring, good and poor. Does it make this film worse? No, I think not. It just makes him better.
In addition, I must say I really admire Kim McGuire who plays Mona "Hatchetface" Malnorowski in the film. Her performance as a saucy drape girl with an almost malformed face is intense and captivatingly unusual. It really made me believe that felicity shouldn´t depend on looks.
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