Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Scott Baldwin (Meven_Stoffat) I'll start off by saying that even as a huge Repo! fan and one of its biggest supporters as far back and the trailer's leaking in 2007, I was rather mixed with my feelings towards this movie. While I was happy to see the two Darrens and Terrance even getting any work at all. I'm friends with all 3 of them on Facebook and followed their updates about this religiously, but even then I couldn't help feeling a bit on edge about this filmFor starters, I think the biggest problem can be found in its length: 55 minutes. For one, a film that has the mercy if being this short shouldn't feel padded out. But the problem is, it does. It runs 55 minutes and you'd think that should be more than enough time to fit an actual story, but the problem is, there's little story and tons of character porn. Character porn is a term I use to describe a production that has so many characters that it's practically overflowing, and that's exactly the problem here, instead of trying to focus on a story, it forces all these extra characters in and it feels excessive. Which is a shame because watching it, you get the sense that this production has tons of potential with it's fascinating concept of 3 people sent to hell and sent through a carnival where they're forced to face their sins and how they died- each set piece is a metaphor for Aesop's fables. The fables aspect is interesting but wasted here considering the only major tale touched upon is The Scorpion and the Frog, which leads to a rather unsavoury song called "Trust Me"Speaking of which, the music. From what I hear, at the tours if you wanted to get an autograph from the folks attached, you had to drop 20 bucks on a soundtrack. Well, no bloody way could you force me to drop 20 bucks on this soundtrack when the music is so... dull. Part of Repo!'s charm was that it tried various styles of music- Italian folk music, industrial metal, electronica, punk rock, dance-pop and as many styles as there were, it all came together to form one extremely cohesive piece. Here, it's all carnival music and while there are a few good pieces, it feels like they went way too far with it. Some tracks don't even need to be songs ("MISS ME, MISS ME, NOW YA GOTTA KISS ME!"). The final track "Slither in the Mud" is a weird mix of awesome and terrible at the same time- it's always lovely to hear Zdunich's deep and velvety voice, but it can't elevate rather insipid songwriting. Oh and the credits. If I heard "la la la, it's off to hell we go!" Or "you're in the devils... CARNIVAL!" again I was going to murder everyone in the roomIt's a shame because there's so much potential. Darren Bousman is extremely talented and sophisticated as a director, and Darren and Terrance are unparallelled as opera songwriters but when it comes to writing a more traditional musical they can't manage. The cast is impressive with Emile Autumn, much of the Repo! cast and Sean Flanery, but they're wasted and I didn't care about any of the main characters. It's pretty looking and has some interestingly entertaining bits but not enough

Justin Silva I happen to be a huge fan of "Repo! The Genetic Opera" and when I heard Terrance Zdunich and Darren Lynn Bousman were working on a whole new Gothic horror musical I was excited. Then I watched it. Now it is one of those "wait until the end of the movie to fully understand," but so well worth it. Also it may help to watch it more than once, which since it's a cult film, it's great to do that as well. The music mixes well with the story and some of the songs are very catchy and who doesn't LOVE Terrance Zdunich's singing voice. I recommend this movie! Oh, and another good thing is a sequel is coming out soon which that movie takes place in Heaven! I can't wait!

Pixie Noir A few years ago I was really into Emilie Autumn and I had seen Repo! around that time because of the Emilie Autumn fan group. But I really didn't pay attention to her after early 2011.I found out about a month ago that Emilie had a new album and stared in the devil's carnival, which I had heard was a great sequel to Repo!. I listened to the soundtrack even before watching the movie and adored it. I felt the songs and what I had seen of the fantastic costumes and make-up held up to my love of Repo!. But once I finally saw the movie, I was sadly underwhelmed.The concept was fascinating but it lacked a well structured storyline for each character in the carnival. I wanted more from the scorpion and I wish Emilie & The Bloody Crumpets characters had spoken parts. I just overall felt it should have been longer as well, it was too short IMHO. Maybe if it was longer the characters could have been developed better, who knows??? Still in love with the soundtrack, I'll hold that dear to me but never gonna get over how underwhelmed I was with the characters in the movie. If you love Repo! I probably wouldn't recommend watching this.

nicothodes So I had low hopes for this going in, as I thought Repo! was a bad film trying too hard to be edgy, but I like Emilie Autumn so I figured I could give it a go. After all, Repo! was at least fun to make fun of.This film didn't even have the decency to let me laugh at it. The music is atrocious and to make it worse, most of the people can't sing. It's also disturbingly misogynistic. Never mind that the greedy woman obsessed with her looks is what should be an outdated stereotype, she is forcibly stripped and whipped. While she is being whipped, carnies crawl between her legs. It's all so obviously done for titillation, as she's left in frilly pants and there is no blood (which allows the filmmakers to ignore how horrific this is and just go "yup, she had sexual assault coming to her, damn thief").Unfortunately, that's not the worst thing about the film. No, there is another woman who is there because she was...killed by her abusive partner? What? Why is she in hell? Then she decides to trust this guy who she runs into, and he kills her. Then Emilie Autumn sings this song about how she should have known better than to trust him and this is clearly all her fault. Yeah, no. Abuse victims are not to blame for the abuse inflicted on them. Ever.So yeah, the women there get tortured and murdered for fun (a previous reviewer said that it would have made more sense to have the thief be crushed to death under the weight of the things she's stolen, which would have both made sense and removed the rapiness), and the guy gets sent off to heaven with nothing remotely bad happening to him.Movie, you promote victim-blaming and you sexualise a woman being tortured. You are bad and you should feel bad.