- Film Review
- Reviewed By Alan Jones
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4 out of 5
Making full use of a multi-million-dollar budget, Frank Oz here brings Howard Ashman's off-Broadway musical to the big screen in a way that Roger Corman (who directed a 1960 version) could only have dreamed of. It's packed with great doo-wop songs, a killer line-up of stars (Steve Martin shines brightest as the sadistic dentist) and clever horticultural special effects that underline, but never swamp, the charming theatricality of the stylised whole. The Four Tops's Levi Stubbs voices the alien Venus People-Trap that causes deliciously nerdy Rick Moranis to hack up victims for plant food and impress his Monroe-inspired lover, Ellen Greene, who reprises her award-winning stage role. This memorably weird musical is in the grand old Hollywood tradition.
Plot Summary
Musical black comedy starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene and Vincent Gardenia, and featuring Steve Martin. "He's a mean green mother from outer space and he's bad." The arrival of a strange and unusual plant means instant celebrity for a skid-row florist but at a price: for when the creature screams "feed me!" it doesn't want water, it wants blood!
Cast and crew
Cast
- Seymour Krelborn
- Rick Moranis
- Audrey
- Ellen Greene
- Mushnik
- Vincent Gardenia
- Orin Scrivello, DDS
- Steve Martin
- Crystal
- Tichina Arnold
- Chiffon
- Tisha Campbell
- Ronette
- Michelle Weeks
- Patrick Martin
- James Belushi
- Wink Wilkinson
- John Candy
- First customer
- Christopher Guest
- Arthur Denton
- Bill Murray
- Audrey II
- Levi Stubbs
Crew
- Director
- Frank Oz
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