michaelmouse1
This re-make is pretty fabulous! But it had a messed up release by Fox who have since blocked most clips of it on You Tube. Fox has pretty much buried it. It's every bit as good as the original and better in many ways. I think all the minor characters are better in the re-make and it's a very different presentation but superior in my opinion. The Jury's out on Frank'n Furter though...a different interpretation but a noble one. Tim Curry, who makes a pretty deflated appearance in the new version, is a hard act to follow. But the Transgender actress Laverne Cox, who plays the new Frank pretty much knocks it out of the ballpark. She has big steps to fill but she does a great job. I loved it! Probably more than the original to be perfectly...well, um...Frank.
I Hope you can track it down. Sadly the haters attacked the re-make and Fox Films did nothing to save it. Such a pity...I thought it was brave and quite extraordinary! Hopefully, like the original Rocky, which was also a box office flop, it will live again. Ignore the low ratings. This is in most ways a superior version.
Aurelia Destiny
Good lord did they mess this one up! Just a warning that there are spoilers ahead, but if you're reading this then doubtless you've already seen the original film which this one mirrors, so you'll know what's coming anyway. Please hold onto your precious memories of the original movie because you're going to need it once you slog through the dreadful drivel that's the remake.I only just heard yesterday that one of my favorite movies had been remade and I was excited to see how a more updated version could hold up to the original from 1975. Well...it didn't. I know know why I hadn't heard of it and I fervently hope that it's thrown into a hole and buried.I was born in 1977 and although not a massive fan, I go back and watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show every couple of years and have an even bigger appreciation now than I did when I was younger. Admittedly, I didn't believe that the new film could hold a candle to the old, but I chose to ignore all of the bad reviews and the 4.3 rating on IMDB. I wanted an unbiased opinion, so I didn't judge it and decided to watch it as I'd never seen the original.I do get what the new movie was trying to do, but it simply didn't work. There are so many faithful fans of the original that this new one was bound to fail no matter what. We're attached to the characters and the original actors did such a fantastic job of it that seeing the changes was rather jarring. The songs were a massive part to the appeal of the film and when they were changed, the new one shot itself in the foot from the outset.The one way that the new movie failed so spectacularly was the music. The song-writer's tried to make it more updated but the fans are so enamoured of the original that any changes at all were bound to make us walk out of the theatre in droves. The minute the first song began in the church yard in the new film, I was ready to close the browser and seek out the original film. Why would the songs be changed? Yes, they are a little dated now, but the movie was way ahead of its time in almost every aspect. The songs are still played on the radio, mentioned in other films, played at weddings and more. If the music had not changed then this new film would most certainly not have been hated that much.It was an interesting spin to have the theatre audience as a major part of the film and it cut to them often during the songs. As the movie is still played every year in theaters and the fans dress as the characters and sing and interact, it could have worked very well in the new one. Even that part seemed to fail and be almost obnoxious.The actors just didn't do a good job. Brad's every movement and speech was almost ridiculous, as was Magenta's. She looked terrible too. Janet was okay and I think that she did a decent job on the character. Riff Raff...well, the actor didn't exactly seem to know the character's part well at all. The way he stared at Janet like a pervert was pretty gross and his flailing movements during songs was terrible. Riff Raff and Magenta are my two favorite characters from the original movie but they were so horrible in the remake that I could barely stand to watch them. They didn't look the same, and although Riff Raff was quite attractive, the moment he began to sing and flail about stupidly, I began to loath him. I hated Magenta on sight with her long stupid pink hair. The actor was very bad too and didn't seem to know the character. Magenta didn't act as she should and there was just no bond at all with her brother like in the original. Their interactions, even just their exchanging looks throughout the movie, was gone. Their forbidden relationship as lovers was a part of the plot that really worked, but it apparently was decided that it be removed from the new film. For anybody new to the movies, they'd never have known that Riff Raff and Magenta were related at all if it wasn't for Frank pointing out that relationship it would have been obvious. I also found it utterly ridiculous that the so-called siblings were clearly of different races and skin color.The actress that played Columbia actually did manage to get the voice almost perfect, as the original had her, but she couldn't act. I hated whenever the camera panned to her to do her part. What was with the blue tongue?!Don't get me started on Dr. Frank-N-Furter! She was dreadful. Let me start by saying that I have absolutely no issue with Trans people, or Drag Queens, and I'm a huge fan of Rupaul's Drag Race, so given that when I say that I hated Dr. Frank-N-Furter in this remake it's not due to being biased. The acting was simply bad, overdone, and even the singing sucked. Poor Tim Curry. I'll bet that he regretted taking the role of The Criminologist once the filming began and definitely when it was released to theaters and was heavily panned. They also removed his accent which I really love and tried to do an English one. He didn't do it well.The characters didn't seem to have a bond at all and I got no sense that the actors liked each other either, except for maybe Janet and Brad. Next, the sets. In the original, Janet and Brad were singing on the steps of the church and inside of it, but in this remake they were singing and dancing in the graveyard, draping over gravestones. Just let that sink in a little. I couldn't believe how disrespectful the two were being to the dead and I wondered if anyone who saw the film and had loved one buried there were as horrified as I was. In the next scene the two were walking through the rain after their car blew a tire and they were heading to the castle. Only, it wasn't really a castle in this new version, but an old decrepit theatre that looked half a castle and part some sort of construction area with chain link fences. I couldn't understand why the director would make such a bizarre change! Inside was strange too and the party room where the time warp was sung was small and cramped. Oh, and there was a band and backup singers for almost every song! It was unnecessary and just weird. Eddie didn't come out of a freezer, he crashed through a window on his motorbike. Columbia did scream when he was killed, but she shut up when Magenta stuck a lollipop into her mouth and then acted like she no longer cared.The sex scenes in the bedrooms were just stupid, uncoordinated, and it was literally flailing and rolling about. In places it was like watching a seizure. Bizarrely, Rocky and Janet went to have sex in her bed, but somehow they went back later into the icebox (Yeah, Rocky was brought to life in an icebox!) so that the others could discover them. Why not just stay in the bed?With a script like that nothing should have gone wrong at all, but between the changes to the sets, the songs, the characters and choreography, it was bound to bomb from the beginning.The entire movie was just like watching a train wreck. I read that it followed the original script for the movie more faithfully but it couldn't be saved. I'd avoid watching this movie and go and watch the original again. Thank god I am such a big fan of the 1975 version or the new 2016 film would have made me loath the very sight of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. They ruined it completely and I'd really like the 93 minutes of my life back.
tiekbane
All the negative reviewers are straight on. I will add a few more things.They obviously were reproducing, mostly, the play with a few flourishes from the movie so the shallowness can be somewhat explained.This deserves some credit for a few "spark"s of originality, namely a couple of lines of dialogue, good production, a modicum of update & an original song. If only they had spent a few more dollars on good writers, they could have updated the movie nicely. Let this be a lesson. You already have a good story & good songs: thats at least 1/3 of the movie.But don't use a tranny for the lead, OK? HE needs to be a transvestite, not a real transsexual. That was just a joke!Better luck next time, hopefully in this millennia.
dixsynormous
Not worth watching, may as well stick to the original movie. It's a shame that singers who can act weren't cast. I gave it 2 stars for them getting Tim Curry to be a part of this piece of garbage even though it looked like he didn't even want to be there, and 1 star for the opening number which I really liked. It was all downhill from there.
