Metacritic reviews

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

A fast, furious and funny fusillade of a movie.

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.

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

A small, scruffy, but agreeably energized comedy.

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

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.

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

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.

Shrill and sloppy film.