Frodo is a cannibal! Detached heads can talk! Mickey Rourke is funny and engaging! For God’s sake, is nothing in this world normal any longer?!?

Oh, wait. Michael Clarke Duncan still can’t act. Ahh…reality.

Sin City is a twisted cinematic trilogy set against a consistently dark backdrop with consistently wicked humor. Think film noir as Looney Tunes meets Clockwork Orange, with a splash of Reservoir Dogs, a sprinkle of Silence of the Lambs, and a dash of Kill Bill. Tarantino, as special guest director, definitely left his mark.

As for the storylines: Marv (Mickey) works to find his beautiful one-night stand’s murderer leaving a very long trail of mutilated bodies; Hartigan (Bruce), the only honest cop in town, wages a hopeless war against Senator Roark (Powers) and his sex-offender son, Junior (Nick) to protect a young girl; and Gail (Rosario), along with Dwight (Clive) and the machine gun carrying/sword swinging prostitutes take on the cops and the mob of Basin City.

The common denominator amongst the loosely connected characters is violence, ultra violence. There are enough severed body parts, gunfire, and knife wounds to satisfy at least the mid-level movie violence junkie and more than enough to turn others off, completely. This movie is definitely not for everyone. If you don’t find a smidgen of perverse humor in cannibalistic dialogue, prostitution, and sadism you probably shouldn’t see Frank Miller’s comic book brought to life. As for me, I laughed while cringing and it was good. Then again, that’s just me.

Sin City blurs the lines between good and evil. No one is really pure and free of sin in this raunchy place and questions of morality are usually answered with mortality. I mean how many bad people is one really allowed to disfigure as retribution for the death of a nice hooker? Nevertheless, this is a wild ride and while it will not go down as one of the greatest movies of our time, it will be remembered as being a lot fun.

By the way, I wasn’t joking about Fro do or in this case Kevin (Elijah). He really does like to eat pretty girls. Yuck!