San Francisco Examiner by Wesley Morris

The shenanigans have been pared into 84 minutes of transgressive, potty-minded farce, that is often Waters at his most cheerful and most thematically focused.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

A fast, furious and funny fusillade of a movie.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

DeMented is Waters the way we like him--spiked with laughs and served with a twist.

Time by Richard Corliss

Cecil B. proves how a dose of smart bad taste can be jolly good fun.

TNT RoughCut by Susannah Breslin

Not to be missed, one of the year's best, a whole lotta laughs, and 4-stars all rolled into one.

Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten

If this movie does anything to rally crowds against cinema's mass distribution of mediocrity then it has served a noble purse.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

It's Waters' way of saying: It's only a movie.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

The comedy is frantic and tasteless in the usual Waters mode, but it takes telling potshots at the Hollywood establishment, which isn't nearly so open about the tackiness of its products.

San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Graham

It's an audacious little comedy with bursts of hilarity and a certain giddy energy.

Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy

For good and ill, there is only one John Waters.

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

Neither Waters' funniest film nor, by a long chalk, his most radical. But it is, as promised, a passing of the torch and an article of suitably perverse faith in the next generation of nutso cinéastes.

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Funnier than "Pecker" but a far cry from the best of Waters's Divine movies.

Film.com by Robert Horton

A small, scruffy, but agreeably energized comedy.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

Consistently amusing and smart in its choice of targets, but it lacks the manic edge of some of Waters' earlier movies.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

Weighed down by the presence of Griffith. She plays her satiric part without much gusto or conviction - as if she were afraid we might believe she really is Honey.

Miami Herald by René Rodríguez

Shrill and sloppy film.