Little Shop of Horrors.

Solid opening tune and another musical like Rocky Horror Picture Show with some fantastic music. How this musical escaped me and I have been torturing myself with the likes of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Carousel instead of listening to memorable tunes and watching a genius-ly simple plot is way beyond me. I will blame my friends for this most serious crime against musical watchers.

I didn't know anyone in this cast so at least this review wont be focused solely on one person. Let's start with the technology. This film was made in 1986, it screams out that it was made in the eighties as the plant looks like it was made out of paper mashe. The fact is that this film is clearly a low budget film, with the setting of only a shop, a street and a dentist the money clearly wasn't spent on location and extravagant plot so it must have been spent on the music- which is what we like to see in musicals.

With your typical somewhat nerdy, unpopular protagonist motivated to try and impressive the beautiful blond who is in a relationship with a bad man in comes the plant and the way to make Seymour (Rick Moranis) famous and gain the attention of Audrey (Ellen Greene). A small and somewhat unusual plant turns out to be a man eating plant (voiced by Levi Stubbs) and is demanding blood. Who shall they feed to him first? With guest appearances from Bill Murray (Ghostbusters), Steve Martin (Bow finger) and John Candy (Cool Runnings, Planes, trains and automobiles, JFK) this film has a solid foundation underneath it.

Try not to be too critical of the film. Rick Moranis was exceptional at playing the somewhat pained and emotional young man but not so great at doing anything else. With Ellen Green taking on the role of 'dumb blonde' so convincingly she could have really made us think that she wasn't acting. It wasn't the most exceptional display and it didn't have the stellar performances from the lead characters that Rocky Horror did but instead it has some fantastic music and is really easy to enjoy. It may take time for you to go near plants or dentists again after watching this film but it is well worth the watch!