A campy spoof of 60's women's melodramas, "Die Mommie Die!" is about a washed-up singer named Angela Arden (played to great effect by drag queen Charles Busch) who murders her repugnant, controlling husband (Philip Baker Hall) by slipping him a poisonous suppository (yes, a poisonous suppository).
The plot thickens (or sickens) from there, with Natasha Lyonne and Stark Sands playing her suspicious, plotting teenage children and Jason Priestley having a great time playing Susan's "gigolo" boyfriend who has hidden motives. Also on hand is Frances Conroy from "Six Feet Under" as nosey maid Bootsie Carp.
Being a spoof of 60's B-movies, of course everyone hams it up, acting horribly and reciting the ludicrous dialogue as flatly as humanly possible. Very, very John Waters, and since John Waters hasn't made a really good movie in several years, that's fine with me.
"Die Mommie Die!" is as much fun as the title suggests for about half an hour, but unfortunately after that it's pretty much an equal quotient of hits and misses. Which means a LOT of hits, but also a LOT of misses, which gets tiring.
Worth checking out for Busch's and Priestley's entertaining performances and if you have a fondness for cheeseball B-movies, but even though there are a lot of laughs, the whole thing doesn't really hang together that well.
The plot thickens (or sickens) from there, with Natasha Lyonne and Stark Sands playing her suspicious, plotting teenage children and Jason Priestley having a great time playing Susan's "gigolo" boyfriend who has hidden motives. Also on hand is Frances Conroy from "Six Feet Under" as nosey maid Bootsie Carp.
Being a spoof of 60's B-movies, of course everyone hams it up, acting horribly and reciting the ludicrous dialogue as flatly as humanly possible. Very, very John Waters, and since John Waters hasn't made a really good movie in several years, that's fine with me.
"Die Mommie Die!" is as much fun as the title suggests for about half an hour, but unfortunately after that it's pretty much an equal quotient of hits and misses. Which means a LOT of hits, but also a LOT of misses, which gets tiring.
Worth checking out for Busch's and Priestley's entertaining performances and if you have a fondness for cheeseball B-movies, but even though there are a lot of laughs, the whole thing doesn't really hang together that well.