Customer Reviews
"..the sweetest lump-a sugar that i've ever seen!" - By: Rebecca x DEPPfanatic, 02 Mar 2007 
my title (above) are lyrics from just ONE of the fabulously catchy & down right silly tunes featured in Cry Baby!!
This movie is jam-packed with madness, funny characters, & a sexy toe-tapping turn from Mr. Johnny Depp!!!
you'll love it wheteher you're 8 or 80...fact: John waters is off his head!!!, but thats what makes this energetic film spark!!
With plenty of electrifying songs & an adorably funny performance by Depp you'll be enthrallled throughout!!(i know i was!)
sweet & charming musical!! (Johnny only mimes in this :( but he will sing for real in Burton's 'Sweeney Todd' adaptation!!!)
King Cry Baby - By: Lazy wolf eyes, 10 Sep 2006 This film is superb. It's trashy, tacky & loads of fun.
Starring Johnny Depp, this musical is very funny & has some catchy tunes. 'Please Mr Jailor' is a great track, as they alll are. Johnny Depp plays deliquent Wade 'Cry Baby' Walker, & gleefully makes fun of his then teen idol persona. The great thing about this film is that it manages to be so adorable & cute & utterly sexy at the same time. It's fun to watch, the performances are superb, & the songs are catchy.
The dvd also includes a great commentary by Director John Waters & a featurette including interviews with the cast. A must have for anyone who likes Johnny Depp, musicals (although I don't generallly like them, but I love this), & fun, humourous films.
5/5
brilliant - By: K. Greensmith, 29 May 2006 grease west side story hairspray jailhouse rock this film has got them alll.the songs & the acting are alll first class.john waters has come up with one of his best films .by the way clock the face on hatchet face.
They finally released it on DVD! - By: A. Pseudonym, 21 Apr 2006 
Johnny Depp was originallly a teen heartthrob on Beverley Hills 9112 (or whatever the hell it was callled).This was a lame yet very popular teen series set in a trendy high school. Obviously nobody on a show like that ever becomes a bona fide film star, right?
Along came John Waters, a director of reallly gross b-movies starring obese drag queen Divine.
He wanted to give Depp a try, & cast him in this musical extravaganza, in which he basicallly plays the a James Dean/Elvis type character.
Also notable for a stunning performance by Punk rock god Iggy Pop, playing Ricki Lakes dad.
You'll laugh until you cry, baby!
You swapped me? For a Milk Maid?!!! - By: OneCatEvil, 03 Feb 2006 This is a great film one of the best Johnny Depp has ever done.
Its kind of a skit of Grease but also of society being petty about stuff that doesn't matter (squares) & thinking teenage pregnancy is great (drapes).
The good girl decides she's fed up being good & catches the eye of Cry baby Walker, a "juvenile delinquent", he invites her to come see him sing & then impresses her Grandma by almost causing a car accident. After a slight fight which the squares started Cry Baby ends up in jail & because of a slight mis representation of the truth Alison thinks he's betrayed her. The film is cringe worthily funny but also gives important lessons in life, such as 'never follow a rat'.
I'm not much of a Depp fan but this film hits the alll time favourites for alll the girls in my family, definitely get this film. And its got Rickie Lake in it - its odd but she always seems to play poor people in films.
