![]() ![]() The movie begins with a deadpan disclaimer: "This film is a true story. The outre auteur starts with a one-joke idea - a comedy about a serial killer - that's worth only a chuckle to begin with, then re-visits familiar themes - bloodthirsty pop culture, crime and glamour, the meanness and perversity behind smug, censorious middle-class surfaces - that Waters handled definitively 20 years ago in "Female Trouble." "Serial Mom" is offensively tame and almost (gasp) tasteful. We've come to expect more from Baltimore's own king of kitsch, the pope of puke. THERE ARE ABOUT 15 minutes of laughs in "Serial Mom." That's a decent score for a comedy by anyone else, but this is a John Waters movie.
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