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Toby Philpott,
Rick Moranis,
Rick Moranis,
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Frank Oz,
Frank Oz
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: Warner Home Video
: Comedies, Horror, Aliens, SNL Alums, Musicals
: 88 min.
: English, Spanish, French
: English, Spanish, French
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It started as a 1960 Roger Corman horror comedy, filmed in two days; it then inspired a lavish 1982 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Finally in 1986, Little Shop of Horrors (1960) graduated into a multimillion-dollar, all-star film musical. Rick Moranis plays nebbishy Seymour Krelborn, who works in a rundown flower shop on Skid Row. While his boss (Vincent Gardenia) bemoans the lack of business, Seymour seeks a way of bringing the shop -- and himself -- fame and fortune. He purchases a strange plant from an even stranger oriental street vendor (Vincent Wong), naming the plant after his girlfriend Audrey (Ellen Greene, one of the few carry-overs from the Broadway version). Gradually, Seymour learns to his horror that "Audrey II" (given the voice of R&B performer Levi Stubbs) craves blood and flesh. With each of Audrey II's "FEEED MEEE"s, Seymour must scare up human food to satisfy the plant's appetite. One such victim is dentist Steve Martin, a leather-jacketed Elvis type (the dentist's ultra-masochistic patient played by Jack Nicholson in the 1960 original is here impersonated by Bill Murray). The lighthearted tone of the film darkens as Audrey II grows in monstrosity, but the unhappy ending of the Broadway version is avoided herein. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Special Features: - Feature-length Commentary by Director Frank Oz
- Outtakes and Gags
- Production Notes
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by pelikan
March 1, 2002 - 2:33 PM PST
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1 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| One of the few musicals I can watch over and over. Why? Because, it funny as hell. Steve Martin as the singing Dentist who takes pleasure in giving pain makes this movie worth while. Come to think of it, besides the plant and the dentist, the other main characters (Moranis, Greene) are rather annoying. |
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