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What Is a Movie Critic's Job in the Summer of Comic Books?
By Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek
Here, he pulls back, but the fact that gags like this are present at all is encouraging. Waters is a splendid humorist, but not a cinema maker in the usual sense. With Cry-Baby, he made the mistake of trying for something like a conventional movie. With Serial Mom, he resorts again to shock tactics, like those of the exploitation filmmakers he idolizes. Like the streets of his beloved Baltimore, this is his real turf.
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