Wetlands - the movie

       So they've finally released the film version of Charlotte Roche's ... remarkable novel, Wetlands, in the US (on this, the post-Labor Day and as a result apparently perennially lowest box-office weekend of the year). (Oddly/interestingly, it hasn't been released in the UK, and I can't find any suggestion that they're anywhere close to doing so.)
       Early coverage didn't so much set the tone -- that was a given, I think -- but already made clear what folks might be getting themselves into: Germany's Latest Export Is Fifty Shades of Gross warned Rebecca Schuman at Slate; The Most WTF, NSFW Movie At This Year's Sundance Film Festival suggested Adam B. Vary at BuzzFeed .....
       Many of the reviews had similar headlines:

• The sex comedy Wetlands is wonderfully filthy and wildly perverse, The Onion (Jenni Miller)
• Wetlands: Grossing Out and Coming of Age Now, PopMatters (Jesse Hassenger)
• Wetlands: A Schmutzy Comedy With an Adorable New Star, Time (Richard Corliss)

       Other reviews can be found in:

• Entertainment Weekly (where Chris Nashawaty rates it a "C")
• New York (David Edelstein)
• The New York Times (Jeannette Catsoulis)
• Reason (Kurt Loder)
• Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)

       Reactions seem much like they were for the book -- ewww, gross, but yeah, there's something winning to it. Carla Juri's performance, which apparently impressed greatly, clearly helped.
       {Personally, I think I'll pass. Graphic material in written form I can more or less handle; visually -- and blown up all out of proportion on a movie screen -- maybe not so much.)