It is a performances centric movie

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Well, only a few songs are memorable. The main theme and when "Audrey 2" sings are the best. The song "Suddenly Seymour" is good but not great. The best song is "Downtown", a true send-up of the Petula Clark classic. Ellen Greene's revealing push-up front is quite annoying and Steve ("Elvis") Martin is the meanest dentist of all time with Bill Murray his strangest pain-loving patient. Look for other cameos, including John Candy and Jim Belushi. (I actually had a dentist not wait for the Novocain to kick-in, so I changed dentists.) Frank Oz at his best and that great 4-Tops & Motown Sound. I love the "Slumtown Supremes". A great and scary plant-"puppet". Just wonderful. At it's worst, a true "horror" film but no worse than the old black and white original. Fun-to-watch, but little kids will have nightmares. A guilty pleasure, worth seeing from time-to-time! Only surpassed by "Rocky Horror Picture Show" as a classic Halloween movie-musical.

It's a black campy horror film remake of a 1960 film of the same ilk. The original is typical of Ed Wood, Hammer Film Productions of the era, low budget horror, actors not that well know at the time, crank it out fast, under or at budget.This remake is just perfect, it's polished without taking away from the original, it has a strong feeling of seeing a theater performance, not surprising since it is base on an off Broadway musical production, but here you get close ups of the actors, I enjoy a lot how it was film in this theater vs movie style.The doo-wop and that old black 60s Motown sound peppered thru it is just wonderful and fits the movie well. Love how the actors are allowed to use their own voice belting it out, with very little enhancing. Steve Martin's evil Elvis dentist is just throttled back enough for a great performance, Rick Moranis carries the movie well as the plant geek, all the actors are top notched. Even the Plant, well he is a mess and full off himself, love the steal the coin from the cash register to make a call scene, that smirk of being so pleased with himself.I still enjoy the original black and white but this one is so good, unfortunately it's an unfair comparison, this was no low budget film and was based on one of the most profitable off Broadway musical ever, something like a 5 year run, over 2,000 performances.

I certainly don't understand the low rating on here for this film - if you've never seen it before don't let that put you off watching it.LSOH was my 'family movie' as a kid, introduced to us by our dentist uncle. Everything about it is just perfect it - is funny, self-aware and contains too many brilliant scenes to count. The songs are consistently great and the casting is spot on. I especially love all the amazing cameos: Bill Murray, John Candy etc.Whenever I'm ill or feeling down, all I need to do to feel better is just watch this film. I never trust anyone says they don't like this film!

Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis) is a bumbling worker at Mr. Mushnik (Vincent Gardenia)'s flower shop on Skid Row. His co-worker Audrey Fulquard (Ellen Greene) gets beaten by her semi-sadist dentist boyfriend Orin Scrivello (Steve Martin). They both want to leave Skid Row. During the total eclipse of the sun, a strange plant appear out of the sky. Seymour and Audrey figure a strange plant at the window would bring in business and it does. Seymour calls it Audrey II. The plant has a need for blood. It demands blood and in return, it promises to bring good fortune to Seymour.This is a lot crazy wacky overblown Broadway music. It's fun for the most part. Steve Martin goes over the top. The craziness doesn't get that many laughs. Some of the songs are catchy. It's a fun musical but not many big laughs. Bill Murray as Arthur Denton should have been funnier but like a lot of the movie, he's a crazy character and the movie assumes that he's funny just because it's wacky.