I was thinking of saying something like "this is one of the most underrated..." and then I thought, what the fuck am I talking about? John Waters wouldn't like me talking about his movie in such a conservative way, no he wouldn't. So I am going to try again, in a better, let's hope, way. 50s teen, over-the-top musical wet fantasy of a movie that comes and washes away all of our sins of being "square" in our life. Cry-Baby is a movie that excites the viewer, is making him climb the walls in his house and brings mayhem to his personal totally dull and cheesy life. There is no doubt that we are talking about a movie that provokes the conservatism inside of us, exactly like all John Waters movies do and more than that Cry-Baby is letting us dream the way that we all would want to be, if in our life we were sincere to ourselves. Cry-Baby is raunchy, deliberately campy and it inhales the air of freshness and youth like maybe no other film ever did. This is a movie that you mostly feel, rather than explain. There are many things in there that come as a exhilarating emotion, than plain words and it is a miracle to see that the thing that the movie leaves you with is pure thrill. Thrill for life, thrill for cinema. Cry-Baby is a gem of provocative cinema, is the voice of the delinquents, is the voice of the ones that don't care what other people say about them and how terrible they think they are. This is my personal favourite from John Waters' filmography, a film that really dazzles you with its choreographed perfection, its naughty humour, its imaginative costumes and more than everything with its uncompromising and deliberately wild and sharp agenda. Cry-Baby is a film that stays like a hidden gem of the early 90s and it is with great pleasure that I say that this is one of the greatest movies of the decade, a film that really astonishes the spectator and make him really question his life's values.
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