CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

kevjfarrell This really isn't a movie for everyone, but over the years I have been introduced to John Waters movies and they re my guilty pleasure! Before John Waters became mainstream, he made a whole series of art-house movies like this using grotesque characters and ridiculous story lines, but somehow they worked. I guess you gotta be a little weird and twisted in the head to enjoy them!!!! He should not be dismissed as a Director who's out to shock you for the sake of it, he's showing you a slice of life that most of us have no real knowledge about. Of course, all the characters are larger than life (in more ways than one!!!). I enjoy his style of movie making - it may be quite amateur in his early days, but you can see that his skill improves with each movie. I'm not ashamed to say that I enjoy a lot of his work!! Mark my words, this movie is certainly NOT for everybody!!! Make sure you know what you are letting yourself in for before you watch it!!!! It's pretty gross in places!! It's so tasteless it's good!!!!

Steve Pulaski Two years off of his Pink Flamingos fame, John Waters returns to the screen to prove he is the true filth elder of the seventies. Female Trouble is an exercise in poor taste, perhaps even more wickedly loathsome than the loving events we saw in Flamingos. While that, at times, felt like it was testing the audience's capacity for shock, Female Trouble sticks to a solid story about a troubled teen or later evolves into a trouble adult.The teenager is drag-queen Divine, cementing the fact that he has an unsung talent for overacting and slapstick. He plays Dawn Davenport and is obsessed with getting into trouble in her seemingly never-ending state of rebellion. After she fails to receive the "cha-cha heels" she wants for Christmas, Dawn runs away, winds up being raped by an odious, disgusting man (also played by Divine, outside of drag), gives birth to a kid, and adapts to a fearless life of crime.Her daughter grows up to be just as outspoken and surly as she herself. The daughter, played by Mink Stole who purposely looks as if she's thirty, is hilarious in every scene she occupies and continues the line of John Waters' secondary characters who overact and are victim to circumstance.Edith Massey makes an appearance has Dawn's lover's Aunt Ida, a morbidly obese woman who always struts her stuff in fishnets and tight costumes. Again, much like Divine, Massey is a natural at slapstick comedy and seems relentless in her ability to find the strangest, most out of place things to say.Like all, or most, of Waters' works, there is a moral or message lodged in here, tight enough to miss if not contemplated thoroughly. Many mistake Waters for being a man desperate in his efforts to shock, when in reality, he's an underrated, hilarious wizard of writing and directing satirical portrayals of families. The message Female Trouble brings us is how we glorify criminals in American. Apparently, Waters paid frequent visits to prison, where he met the Manson family and adopted the phrase "crime is beautiful" in this film.Also boasting a restoration for the 2000's decade, Female Trouble looks grainy, dirty, and washed out after only being shot on 16mm and then blown up to 32mm. The result is very strange, and Waters' cheaply constructed editing style can be noted in the film, much like Pink Flamingos. Still, it doesn't deteriorate the fun and the message that leaves the viewer much to be endured.This is pure seventies exploitation fun, rolled into a delightfully comedic and satirical package. Waters proves he is willing to write, direct, and fund pretty much any strange idea, he believes, he can make funny and moldable. Female Trouble celebrates its bad, indescribable roots with hysterical characters and a message that is sure to go unseen.Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Edith Massey, Mink Stole, and Mary Vivian Pearce. Directed by: John Waters.

alanmora One of John Waters' very best films from his earlier years is the cult classic, "Female Trouble". It stars the hefty transvestite Divine as juvenile delinquent later turned high profile criminal Dawn Davenport. This film has it all and it is guaranteed to offend. Edith Massey puts on a great performance as Aunt Ida delivering such classic lines as "I worry that you'll work in an office, have children, celebrate wedding anniversaries...the world of a heterosexual is a sick and boring life!". Some classic scenes from this movie include Dawn toppling the Christmas Tree on top of her mother, the infamous scene where Divine gives birth to baby Taffy (she chews off the umbilical cord and spits it on the wall!) and the even more infamous scene where Divine (in drag) has sex with Divine (out of drag...complete with "skid marks" in his underwear!)...and this is just scratching the surface of the outrageous scenes in "Female Trouble".

gothicgoblin1334 In 1974, John Waters created his masterpiece entitled, "Female Trouble," a film that began to show the deep and very dark Baltimore humour he uses today. The movie's basic message is: Crime is beauty, showing the hysteria of at first, a teenage Dawn (played by Drag-queen Dreamlander Divine) to a vicious and violent criminal only to be betrayed by her partners in crime and later, being executed in the electric chair. Gore is included, even a scene of an obese woman getting her hand chopped off as well as a scene of mutilation of Divine's "perfect face." A highly recommended film, not as explicit as Pink Flamginos but with much more quality. If you loved Pink Flamingos, you're in for a hilarious and bizarre oddity.