Frequently Bought Together
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Caramba!
Format:DVD
'Polyester' is the most satisfying of all John Waters' films to date, at once a wickedly accurate and hilarious parody of middle class American suburban life whilst also being a fond homage to the gloriously campy melodramas of Douglas Sirk in the 50s.
Divine has never been better or funnier as the tragicomic Francine Fishpaw and is served by a superb script which milks every soap opera cliche for all its worth but sprinkles on some intelligent irony and a pacy narrative structure that makes the movie crackle along with true wit and sparkling performances. Tab Hunter is obviously enjoying himself immensely and in hamming it up to just the right proportions seems to be unwittingly experiencing a very novel way to come out of the closet.....
Stand out moments have to be Francine's daughter's experience in the abortion clinic - doesn't sound like a fun premise, but believe me its one of the funniest moments in all satiric cinema - and the revelation of her son's foot fetish which takes on a sadistic yet cartoonish nastiness that could only be accommodated in this kind of comedy.
A film to see again and again and one that never loses its exuberant hilarity!
Divine has never been better or funnier as the tragicomic Francine Fishpaw and is served by a superb script which milks every soap opera cliche for all its worth but sprinkles on some intelligent irony and a pacy narrative structure that makes the movie crackle along with true wit and sparkling performances. Tab Hunter is obviously enjoying himself immensely and in hamming it up to just the right proportions seems to be unwittingly experiencing a very novel way to come out of the closet.....
Stand out moments have to be Francine's daughter's experience in the abortion clinic - doesn't sound like a fun premise, but believe me its one of the funniest moments in all satiric cinema - and the revelation of her son's foot fetish which takes on a sadistic yet cartoonish nastiness that could only be accommodated in this kind of comedy.
A film to see again and again and one that never loses its exuberant hilarity!
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
This is not John Waters' best effort, but it is his turning point, combining the sick, vile humour of his early work (Pink Flamingos,Female Trouble). And the campy, kitschy feel of his much later films (Hairspray, Serial Mom.)
It has Divine as Francine Fishpaw, a wife who is getting harrased by her neighbours, and her family. Her husband, owns an adult movie theatre, her son is a chemical-sniffin', foot stompin' psychopath, her daughter is a disobediant, teenage, delinquent. All of these things seem to be driving poor, poor Francine to an early grave. Until she meets Todd Tommorrow (Tab Hunter), who seems to be the perfect man for her....
This film has all the elements of John Waters' works: - Bad Acting, A Badly written script, and the American nightmare, in a normal suburb of Baltimore.
When the film was originally released in 1981, it came with Waters' patented "Odorama" cards, but, with this new video release, they are, sadly, absent. Leaving a lot of opital reframing, and jumpy cuts, within the whole movie.
This is an excuse just to see Divine, in a distraught, whining state. It's more nasty and spiteful, than sick and funny. It's not good entertainment, but it's watchable, in a good way.
I recommend the American version of the video more, for you get an "Odorama" card with it...
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:VHS Tape
Ah, life in the suburbs. But life is a dead end for 300 pound Francine Fishpaw. Her mother is a shriveled little witch,"..good lord Francine!! You've put on another 20 pounds!!", her children are screwed up deliquents, her husband the "porno king" is messing around with his slutty, viscious secretary. Even the family pet dog, Bonkers, hates her. Thank goodness for her obese, though retarded bestfriend, Cuddles. Francine at last finds love (not) from Todd Tommorrow. I love this movie and desperately wish I had the Odorama card. It's like a satire of a 1950's corny soap opera. Good job, John Waters!!
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
›
Go to Amazon.com to see all 77 reviews
4.4 out of 5 stars
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
piglet
A quirky but funny film as a later-career vehicle for Tab Hunter, and showcase for Divine. A guilty pleasure, and very much of its time!
Published 12 months ago by piglet
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious camp soap-drama
I didn't think I would find this as funny as it was, a parody of all the American wholesome soap dramas, very funny!
Published on 12 Jun 2010 by Diana in Brighton
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful trash
..A lovely, inane story with the typical cast of oddballs and unlikely, loveable protagonists. Thinking about it, John Waters is almost like an American Almodovar (circa Women on... Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2008 by anonymous
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
