The drama teacher who has a room next door to mine wanted to show her kids a musical (but not an old one, since West Side Story hadn't gone over well), so I told her she could bring her kids next door to my classroom and use the Netflix instant stream to show her kids. Plus, I could spend two of my lunch periods watching the film for my blog (it was also very coincidental, since I had, on a whim, started to watch the film about a week ago, but it was too late to try to start one and I fell asleep).
I have wanted to watch the movie for a long time, because I've never seen it, but my friend Erica actually operated Audrey II in her high school's play. I know several people who have seen the stage musical done professionally and they all really enjoyed it, but I have to say that there was very little that I actually really liked about this movie.
I enjoyed the musical numbers with the Shirelles-like trio at the beginning of the film (then again singing "Skid Row") and a couple of the songs were okay (I also like the Martin, Murray, Guest, and Belushi cameos), but the acting is campy and pretty awful (Rick Moranis, really?), the majority of the singing is pretty awful (Moranis, the squeaky Ellen Greene, whose voice is much better when she's allowed to just belt it instead of "staying in character", and Audrey II, the plant), and the story is really dumb.
It's so very 80s, and there was very little that a critical movie viewer like me could really get into, regardless of its Oscar nominations (LOL). The entire Rick Moranis filmography will not be on my to-watch list. "That's tough titty, kid." Uh-huh.
Score: 5/10
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