Little Shop of Horrors
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Don't feed the plants.
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day as Seymour is seeking a new mysterious plant, he finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper.
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Recordaba la versión cinematográfica como un musical divertido y entrañable. Ver esta versión del director con un final alternativo de más de veinte minutos, que da a la historia un vuelco cínico, oscuro y nihilista, ha sido todo un descubrimiento. He podido comprobar que las canciones son inolvidables, que el trío de chicas que actúa a modo de coro griego es la definición misma de estilo, que los animatronics y las marionetas, cuando están bien hechos, son irremplazables por los CGI, y que Rick Moranis hace la mejor actuación de su carrera. Steve Martin y Bill Murray están portentosos. En conjunto, un magnífico exponente de un cine musical que ya no se hace, un clásico indiscutible y un ataque de…
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Who would have thought that one of the best movie musicals would come from the most unlikely of places? "Little Shop of Horrors" is based on an Off Broadway musical about a singing, man eating plant from outer space, itself based on a no-budget Roger Corman film from 1960 about a man eating plant from outer space. This may not necessarily be the stuff of winning musicals, but, with its inspired Alan Menken and Howard Ashman score and memorable cast, "Little Shop of Horrors" stands out as one the genre's greats.
The star of the film is Audrey II, the alien plant that brings shoppers to Mushnik's Skid Row Florists. A puppeteered, practical effect, the plant is brought to life…
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Fucking brilliant
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we watched the blu ray with the original ending , such awesome FX went to waste ! sad, but im glad people are albe to see it now!
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'Feed me Seymour'
Rick Moranis is superb as the nerdy florist trying to attract the attention of ditsy Ellen Greene. Maybe that 'strange and interesting' plant might help. Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Jim Belushi, Christopher Guest and the late great John Candy all show up in supporting roles. Just released by Warner Brothers on blu-ray with the original color ending, this is one of the great musicals of recent times.
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87/100
Director's cut. Great to finally see the original ending in color with completed effects (even though it probably makes my copy of the recalled DVD worthless), but I don't really like it significantly better than the cop-out version—it's darker, sure, but also repetitive in its Godzilla-style cheesiness. Until the climax, however, this is the last great old-style, backlot Hollywood musical; that Oz wasn't born 30 years earlier, when he could have helmed at least one of these per year, is a small tragedy. I made my case at length in a Scenic Routes column. Also, I miss Rick Moranis. And Steve Martin when he was funny.
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To say this is a rewatch is a bit of a stretch as I don't think I've watched it since I was a kid. The only scene I really remembered was Steve Martin singing "Dentist!" and, of course, vague recollections of Audrey 2 saying "Feed me, Seymore." This is really a lot of fun. The music is catchy, the puppetry is awesome (no surprise considering Frank Oz directed it) and Rick Moranis...I miss that dude. Levi Stubbs is also awesome as the voice of Audrey 2. I remember being a kid and realizing that the same guy who did this also voiced Mother Brain in the Captain N series. It blew my mind.
"No! I don't know anyone who deserves to get chopped up and fed to a hungry plant!" Haha...classic.
Side note: the Blu-ray is gorgeous and is totally worth the purchase price for the decidedly darker director's cut.
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Who would have thought that one of the best movie musicals would come from the most unlikely of places? "Little Shop of Horrors" is based on an Off Broadway musical about a singing, man eating plant from outer space, itself based on a no-budget Roger Corman film from 1960 about a man eating plant from outer space. This may not necessarily be the stuff of winning musicals, but, with its inspired Alan Menken and Howard Ashman score and memorable cast, "Little Shop of Horrors" stands out as one the genre's greats.
The star of the film is Audrey II, the alien plant that brings shoppers to Mushnik's Skid Row Florists. A puppeteered, practical effect, the plant is brought to life…
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Thank you, Frank Oz, for consistently bringing joy to my life with everything you do.
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<3 Rick Moranis <3
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Fun, silly and soulful, with really cool musical numbers. The right ingredients for a musical.
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There's nothing else quite like this darkly comedic musical. It's a little bit all over the place, but the songs are good, the characters are memorable, and the creature effects are great.
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I've always loved this movie and just watched the directors cut ending version for the first time. So awesome. So very, very awesome. I can't imagine how upset the people who worked on all those special effects felt when it was cut out.
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Recordaba la versión cinematográfica como un musical divertido y entrañable. Ver esta versión del director con un final alternativo de más de veinte minutos, que da a la historia un vuelco cínico, oscuro y nihilista, ha sido todo un descubrimiento. He podido comprobar que las canciones son inolvidables, que el trío de chicas que actúa a modo de coro griego es la definición misma de estilo, que los animatronics y las marionetas, cuando están bien hechos, son irremplazables por los CGI, y que Rick Moranis hace la mejor actuación de su carrera. Steve Martin y Bill Murray están portentosos. En conjunto, un magnífico exponente de un cine musical que ya no se hace, un clásico indiscutible y un ataque de…
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The various puppets of Audrey II are absolutely amazing and some of the best puppetwork I've ever seen. But it's too bad that it's in a piss poor musical.
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'Little Shop of Horrors' has always been my favorite musical, and the stage play is nothing short of excellent. I grew up on the movie, and I always had a soft spot for it, even though I could never get past them changing the ending. It always felt like by changing the ending, Seymour never learned his lesson, and he got away with what he had done. But here, now, finally, and in high definition, we have the original version that Frank Oz had intended to give us. While the ending runs a bit too long now, it fixes the problem I've always had with the theatrical cut of the film, and has made my favorite musical into one of…