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Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Suddenly, Seymour is standin' beside you...
Review: Feeling blue? Need a lift? Watch this movie and you can't help but laugh out loud, as well as bop to the music. Clumsy nerd/florist Seymour gets a mysterious plant that keeps growing and growing, especially when he feeds it blood. Rick Moranis is the quintessential loser who melts your heart. He has that puppy dog face and over-sized glasses, and a lot of talent. In the film's most outrageous scene, Steve Martin plays everybody's nightmare: a sadistic dentist with Bill Murray as his masochistic patient.

The musical satire has a lot of fun, bouncy tunes all backed by a 50's girl group. The script and actors are excellent and you'll love this movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: little shop horrors
Review: it is very good movie my friend got it ilook at with them till i get my

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Better than the play
Review: This movie is one of the greatest movie musicals of all time. I swear, it is better than the musical. Despite the fact that it was shot in a studio, it looks so realistic. Rick Moranis is (surprisingly) a great singer. The Audrey II is amazing. Even though it's a puppet, I think that it would look the same way as a computer generated character. My only anger about this DVD is the fact that there's no deleted scenes. For some dumb reason, there's no alternate ending. What was up with that dream sequence that they shot and never used. There's only a shot of that moment in the Gag Reel. The closest we'll get to the alternate ending is a shot of the "Audrey's Death" scene, a shot of the plant eating Seymour as Seymour yells, "The sequel. What about the sequel?", a shot of two Audrey II's destroying very phony looking models of buildings, and a shot of the girls standing in front of a glittering American flag. All these shots are on the gag reel. Despite the lack of the complete alternate ending, this ending is better. I thought that the Audrey II's last words were not exactly dramatic. Ellen Greene is the ultimate Audrey. I was relieved to know that the voice she uses in the movie isn't real. They could have kept Mushnik and Son but dubbed Mushnik's voice. Steve Martin is a great singer. Jim Belushi was in great shape back in the 80s. If you watch According to Jim, look at him now. Buy this DVD and you will thank me. You'll be in for a lot of laughs.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: little shop of horrors
Review: think was funny picture i like there song i glad i have the dvd movie ok by name is susan webb

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: little shop of horrors
Review: i love move think was little funny poeple how can little plant eat people i love the moive and my friend watch over andover

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of my favorites
Review: I was very young when I first saw this movie and I loved it then. Now, several years later, I rented the DVD and I actually love it even more now. I'm amazed by how good it is. It clearly was ahead of it's time. The plant puppet looks better than most CGI effects in movies. I'll never be able to figure out how they made such a huge puppet's lips move so lifelike. Not only that, but this movie is filled with wonderful songs that fit the movie perfectly. I watched the movie two times in a row just to hear the songs again. All the actors are wonderful and the set is spectacular. I loved it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Feed Me Seymour!
Review: What can I say, I think that this is a wonderful movie and musical. The setting takes place in a plant shop that is on the verge of bankruptcy. Mr. Mushnik is the boss and Audrey and Seymour work for him. Seymour buys a human eating plant for Audrey and names it Audrey 2. Seymour is hopelessly in love with Audrey, but unfortunately Audrey already has a boyfriend, Orin. Orin is a dentist and treats Audrey like dirt. Deep down, Audrey would rather be with Seymour than wit Orin. Finally Seymour kills Orin and feeds him to Audrey 2.

OK, here is why I did not give this movie five stars. As I imagine you all know, the play and the movie are different. In the play at the End Audrey 2 eats Audrey and Seymour feels so lonely without her that he commits suicide by feeding himself to the plant. In the movie on the other hand the shop caught fire and the plant didn't survive, but Audrey and Seymour got married. Another problem with the movie was that the poignant love song, "Suddenly, Seymour," was well overdone. Missing also is the catchy song "Closed For Renovation."

Other than that, this is a wonderful movie, and I would chose to watch it time and again. So go ahead, buy it. You will not be sorry.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I Love this Movie!!
Review: I didnt buy it or anything but i just want to say that this is such a fun movie. I did the musical for my school play (I was the plant) and it's soewhat different (especially the ending) but this movie is pretty true to the play it's based on. It's so original and funny and had great music. A MUST HAVE for anyone who appreciats musical theatre! And the black and white version [is bad] by the way because there's no music and it's very monotonous and dry.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Little DVD of Horrors
Review: One Day in the Month of September, a mean green mother from outer space came. She came to eat and eat and eat...and eat some more. But, it was Seymour Krelborn, a shop clerk who stopped the man-eating plant and saved our world from the menace of outer space.
One of my favorite movies!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Somewhere that's green...
Review: Many musicals have taken the journey from stage to screen. Of those, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is given the honor of being the best transfer of them all. That is not to say the film doesn't have its shortcomings, but the great performances, music, production design and direction are enough to overshadow them.

This film easily had one of the best castings in recent memory. Rick Moranis is Seymour Krelborn, a (what else) nebbish, insecure, geek in love with the ditzy Audrey (Ellen Greene in the role she was born to play.) But unfortunately for them she is dating the semi-sadist Orin Scrivello, a maladjusted dentist who loves to inflict pain. Steve Martin is priceless in that role. Others in the cast include cameos by John Candy, Christopher Guest and Jim Belushi. Throw a man-eating plant with a Levi Stubbs singing voice into the mix and you are left with this quirky musical that is toe-tapping fun.

The musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS got its start on off-Broadway stages before creators Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST) proceeded to bring it to the screen. They wrote some new songs and excised some old ones. Each song is given the royal treatment as presented on the wonderful Skid Row set design, easily a character in the film in itself.

Muppeteer Frank Oz took over directing chores for the film. His tremendous experience with puppets would be put to great use, as that is how the man-eating plant AUDREY II would be presented. But, it is Frank Oz' musical sensibilities that carry it over the age. Oz opens with the haunting DOWNTOWN/SKID ROW where he introduces the denizens that live around the Flower Shop, each one with a story to tell, all told through the omnipresent eyes and mouth of a 'Greek Chorus' of street urchins. In the middle of the film is the tour-de-force SUDDENLY SEYMOUR where Oz's eye and great performances by Greene and Moranis present one of the greatest on-screen love songs to date. Oz uses the camera as a character throughout the film and uses entertaining techniques throughout.

The DVD itself has a lot of stuff although it no longer has the original ending, which came available on an earlier release but was pulled for legal reasons. That finale was more in line with the stage version and many purists hated the screen ending. Although I don't think the "new ending" is wonderful, I find it works better within this intimate film (The stage version lacks that intimacy). Also in the extended material is a Frank Oz commentary and a nice gag reel. The audio/video transfer is very good and the DVD format allows multiple viewings without deterioration!

When suddenly and without warning there was this total eclipse of the sun...


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