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Summary: Great
Review: This movie wonderfully great from beginning to end. The dialogue is hilarious and the same time makes you think. Esspecially when Hedwig explains his view on the orgin of love. The music is catchy and gets stuck in your head till you just have to either watch it again or go out and buy the soundtrack which is equally a wonderful as the movie.
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Summary: Hedwig kicks ...
Review: If you like the rocky horror picture show then hang on your gonna love hedwig. Hedwig rocks from the origin of love to Sugar Daddy. This is a great movie. Just wait until he puts down baby speck.
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Summary: One of my ALL TIME favorites!! I laughed, I cried ...
Review: This is one of the movies you can watch over and over and over again (you should also see the live stage production if you have the chance). The music is fabulous - from hard rockin' to touching ballads. It's a moving story that will make you laugh and cry, really. It's silly and moving. There is wonderful witty dialogue, great costumes, fabulous singing and acting ... it's just an all around great movie.
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Summary: A cinegraphic masterpiece
Review: What to say about this sleeper hit which very few people have had the pleasure of viewing. The soundtrack itself is worth the investment. Outstanding. John Cameron Mitchell is completely mezmorizing in this role(which he wrote) and is an untapped talent in Hollywood in my book. The message is quite simple: no matter how odd, diverse, or unfamiliar one's life may seem we all want the same thing...to be loved. This story of a trasvestite from a land we have only read about in the papers and watched on TV, touches all of us: male, female, straight, gay, etc... It's about human nature. And connects the disconnect we feel about others that seem different. This is a beautiful movie that unfortunately, won't be seen by the people who might benifit the most from a classic such as this.
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Summary: Rock & Plato
Review: A few nights after seeing "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," I happened to be reading the chapter on love in Andre Comte-Spoonville's "A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues," and discovered "Hedwig's" plot line. Imagine my surprise. It appears that Aristophanes' portion of "The Symposium" was lifted, almost lock, stock, and barrel for the brilliant song "Origin of Love," that pretty much lays the groundwork for the whole movie. More astounding is that the material is used to great effect, and does both Aristophanes and Plato quite well. Throughout the movie Hedwig is looking for the other half to make himself whole, and it's a touching, sometimes shocking, always amusing search - and the music rocks. What more can you ask for in an evening's entertainment?
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Summary: Best picture of 2001, and great bonuses in DVD
Review: I'm mostly a classical music fan, and don't even like much popular theatre--I hated "Chicago" on Broadway. But in NYC
summer of '98, I was fortunate enough to catch John Cameron
Mitchell and the original cast at the funky theatre where this
play, or rather event, started. I can't say that I really liked
the experience that much, as the music was way too loud, but the
story is great and it was enjoyable just to watch the crowd,
many of them bewildered tourists just following the Times receommendations, take in this highly unusual production.The movie is terrific. For outlandishness, this film makes "Rocky Horror" look like
"To Sir with Love". And while I am not a rock music fan, I was
years ago, and found this music wonderful and poignant. And the whole thing has just the right touch of humor and over-the-top campiness. There are scenes in this movie that one can watch like music videos and laugh hysterically, dance, or sing along. Mitchell and his collaborator Stephen Trask should have won a bunch of Oscars for this--best picture, best music, best song,
(except there are so many good ones, it's hard to figure out which one's best) and best director. The extras on this DVD are fascinating and moving. especially since Mitchell is the son of
a military big shot and his family is warmly accepting of his unconventionality. The story of how this amazing production
got started is unbelievable. I certainly hope that Mitchell and his friends don't stop here, but go on to do more in music and theatre. Don't miss it.
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Summary: A delectable, off-beat opera treat for anyone w/ taste
Review: It probably helped that I rented this DVD on a whim sans any expectation, but this is a bold, emotional and staggeringly creative piece of work. You'll leave feeling for the characters, especially the lead, Hedwig. First off, the soundtrack would blow Moulin Rogue out of the water (imvho). Fabulous dance extravaganzas, and a script based on a somewhat offbeat theme (the homosexual protagonist has had a botched sex change operation which was a pre-requisite to marry the man he loved). An engaging narrative and a wild full-frontal assault on the clash between rhetorical and real freedom. This for me was enough to make it worth the ride. Terrific performances by everyone, especially Mitchell, the man behind the stage version himself. A slight caveat...not certain whether the movie simply tapers off at the end or if that was an intended parting effect, but be aware that the "plot" as such gets abandoned about 20 mins before the end of the movie and it's up to you to decide whether what remains is a logical or aesthetic next step toward some kind of arty resolution. Works for some, doesn't for others. Definitely worth a shot. At the very minimum you'll have a treat of some great music (it was rock I am told, but I digress).
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Summary: Entertaining!
Review: An employee at work recommended that I watch this, so I brought it home and watched it. I wasn't disappointed. It was different, but it was good. The songs were great! It reminded me of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", but it was better, I thought. The performances were very good, especially that of John Cameron Mitchell, who is also the film's director, as well as the creator of the play on which the film is based. There were a few sexual scenes that I felt were not necessary, but other than that, I thought it was a pretty good film!
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Summary: Hedwig Is A Hit...
Review: The fabled rock star, Hedwig (hence, the wig-wearing lead character) played remarkably by writer-director John Cameron Mitchell, is rocket-blasted through this off-broadway musical turned film. With most of the rock performances being played and filmed live, the energy packs a wallop of rock 'n roll punch akin to Meatloaf meets Bowie meets Sweet, etc, etc. Surprisingly enough, the music is really good! With songs that tell the tale's past and motivate the characters through the story, I found myself humming tunes after the film's ending and 'toe-tapping' all through it. With a great supporting cast of 'characters', we find our downtrodden rock star muddling through the salad bars of america performing all the hits that an ex-flame stole (and consequently performs nightly in whatever 'arena' atmosphere is nearby). Trying to get her name recognized for hits, she stalks ex-beau, Tommy Gnosis to catch a glimmer of the fame his has with her songs. Of course the 'her' in this story was actually a 'him' from East Berlin. Through a botched sex-change operation, (hence the title of the film) he has a confusing past of angry and bitter memories to conquer before finding his true self and a 'piece' (pardon the pun) of personal fame. With amazing glam-era songs and fun, (sometimes very funny) lively musical numbers, Hedwig is a real hit.
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Summary: Fun!
Review: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001) It's been over a week since I finally saw Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and I still cant get my head around it. It was either the most wonderful musical ever made, Rocky Horror with far more talent and watchability, Spinal Tap with drag queens and goths, or some twisted combination of all three that had one unfortunate casting decision. In any case, the movie had a whole lot going for it. Director Mitchell also stars as Hedwig, a transvestite whose sex change operation was botched, and thus lives in a constant state of bitterness and despair. Hedwig and her band, the Angry Inch, tour the U.S. playing horrible little holes while Hedwig's ex-boyfriend Tommy (Michael Pitt, recently seen in Murder by Numbers) has gone on to superstardom and is selling out arenas. But the plot is just a backdrop for the Ziggy Stardust-esque songs of the Angry Inch, some of which are accompanied by gorgeous videos of various types (Mitchell's animated sequences, while naïve in construction, have an unmistakable power to them). The one place the movie goes horribly, painfully wrong is in the casting of Andrea Martin, a woman whose very presence is liable to set the viewer's teeth on edge. She's what would happen if, by some horrible accident of nature, Gilbert Gottfried and Carrot Top were suddenly able to have a child together. Other than that, though, a minor gem that was, not surprisingly, overlooked by Hollywood. *** ½
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