Cry Baby

...driver med det teatraliska konceptet så långt att det till slut känns känns som att titta på old-school tecknad film.

...den är så lekfull och sprudlande att kärleken till den är oundviklig.

Peppered with fun-to-spot cameos (can you spot Williem Dafoe?), the parody-satire script works well with Depp's adept handling of the titular bad boy.

If there is one constant in recent social history, it is that we feel nostalgia for yesterday's teenage badness even while we fear today's.

The film is high on energy, color and camera movement and, as usual in Waters's world, everything is styled within an inch of its life, capturing all the fun and fever of the 1950s.