It's the classic American social confrontation (borrowed from Animal house and others). Here it's the drapes versus the squares- rock & race music versus the conservative letterman sweater crowd.
Cry Baby is a good introduction to John Waters who had to tone down his usual visual mayhem for a big time commercial release. If you're new to John Waters, try this one before you go on to something like Pink flamingos (although I will say that some people should probably never see Pink Flamingos.)
It's a decent musical. Jim Intveld did all of Depp's vocals, and he's pretty well known in the hepcat rockabilly circles because of this. In fact, I do believe that this movie helped bring about the rockabilly resurgence that started in the '90s. A lot of good rockabilly & psychobilly bands started to appear after this movie came out.
Cry Baby is a good introduction to John Waters who had to tone down his usual visual mayhem for a big time commercial release. If you're new to John Waters, try this one before you go on to something like Pink flamingos (although I will say that some people should probably never see Pink Flamingos.)
It's a decent musical. Jim Intveld did all of Depp's vocals, and he's pretty well known in the hepcat rockabilly circles because of this. In fact, I do believe that this movie helped bring about the rockabilly resurgence that started in the '90s. A lot of good rockabilly & psychobilly bands started to appear after this movie came out.