John Waters follows up his epic Pink Flamingo's with a surreal blend of trash and art. The theme is a truly twisted one of crime as art and of repulsiveness as true beauty!

The first half is deliriously mad with Divine and her crew at High School, then there is the famous self rape scene! I shouldn't really reveal any more. Divine has the role of a lifetime as Dawn Davenport, top most model of the dubious Lipstick Beauty Salon, Baltimore's best.

She more then does the role justice rendering a tour de force worthy of several Oscars. Mink Stole, a John Waters stalwart is once again outstanding as the demented Taffy, a hapless child with a deprived childhood (to say the least) who ends up finding solace in the midst of the Hare Krishna lot.

Edith Massey, the gorgeous Egg Lady from Pink Flamingo's returns in an even more glamorous role as a professional Fag Hag. The scenes of her in the punk leather outfit shall remain forever etched in this reviewers memory and that hook for a hand!

Female Trouble succeeds in doing the impossible which is that it is a successful follow up to Pink Flamingo's, different, but just as intriguing and memorably demented.

Divine is missed more then ever, an enormous talent in more ways then one, she had her best years ahead of her before she was struck down by illness, one could say the same to some extent of Edith Massey who was also destined for major stardom before she died. Finally, Thank you John Waters for making the world of films less antiseptic!