Reception
Pecker received mixed to poor reviews. Describing it as "John Waters' first stab at making a mainstream movie," Edvins Beitiks' review in the San Francisco Examiner said it "starts out well and winds up no worse than most of the stuff that comes out of Hollywood" In his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert noted a "tension between the gentler new Waters and his anarchic past. In the scenes in the male strip bar, for example, we keep waiting for Waters to break loose and shock us, and he never does, except with a few awkward language choices. The miraculous statue of Mary could have provided comic possibilities, but doesn't." Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that Pecker is "never truly funny, but it's an amusing novelty, gaining strength from smart characterizations and sly cogency about the way people are exploited under the limelight of celebrity."
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