Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
I am not giving a star rating to Pink Flamingos, because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Waters works best with some restrictions on his license. He's much better as a subversive than he is an anarchist.