| | | A singing plant. A daring hero. A sweet girl. A demented dentist. It's the most outrageous musical comedy in years.
Features: DVD, Dual Layer, Widescreen, Trailers, Outtakes, Behind the Scenes Footage
Business blooms at Mushniks Flower Shop when an exotic potted plant called Audrey II arrives. It turns out to be a carnivorous mean, green mother from outer space, filling that little shop with horrors. Little Shop Of Horrors first flowered in a low-budget 1960 Roger Corman movie, resprouted as a smash 1980 off-Broadway musical and now comes full circle in this 1986 movie musical adaptation of the stage hit with a score by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. An all-star cast of comedy pros spreads tentacles of pleasure. And this DVD is packed with new and never-seen extras.
"...a thoroughly original adaptation...destined to become a classic of camp comedy." Rita Kempley, Washington Post
"...few [musicals] are as lively and fun as Little Shop of Horrors. It's humorous, buoyant, irreverent, and, against all odds, touching." James Berardinelli's ReelViews
"One of the year's most entertaining films. A hothouse of laughs." Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
Editor's Note
In this dark but goofy and thoroughly fun musical, shy Seymour and bubbly Audrey don't recognize the romance blooming between them, but they do recognize the money-making potential of Seymour's weird plant, discovered after a total eclipse of the sun. Soon money pours in and Seymour becomes a minor celebrity, but behind the glamour and fame lies a secret Seymour can't reveal: this strange and unusual plant's favorite food is blood. As the plant grows taller and taller, its demands for food grow as well, and Seymour starts to suspect that the plant might have an agenda for world domination.
Plot Summary
Based on the Roger Corman cult classic, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS slams together twisted humor, a singing plant, a sadistic dentist, and sweet and oblivious love between two skid-row denizens into a rollicking musical well worth watching again and again. Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene portray perfectly clumsy Seymour and bubbly but easily dominated Audrey as they search for a way off skid row. A strange and unusual plant Seymour found after an eclipse might be their ticket out, but the plant Seymour calls Audrey II also desires a strange and unusual food: blood. Audrey's abusive boyfriend, Orin, a dentist who enjoys inflicting pain (played to the hilt by Steve Martin), is the first to go, but who will be next? And will Audrey II's hunger ever end? Moranis and Greene sing with verve and passion, making each song a joy, and the cartoonish sets recall a stage musical even as Frank Oz wields the camera skillfully to make the most of the movie format. Fans of musicals shouldn't miss this movie, and nonfans will soon be converts.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French & Spanish Dolby Surround Sound | | Interactive Menus | | Behind-the-Scenes Documentary | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Filmographies | | Scene Access | | Outtakes | | Deleted Scenes | | Seperate Film Score Audio Track | | Production Notes | | TV Spots | | Theatrical Trailer | | Audio Commentary By Frank Oz |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 9/26/2006 |
| Running Time: 94 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1986 | | Catalog ID: 18325 | | UPC: 00085391832522 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1987) | | | Lyle Conway, et al., Nominee, Best Effects, Visual Effects | | | Howard Ashman, Alan Menken, Nominee, Best Music, Song | |
Golden Globe (1987) | | | Miles Goodman, Nominee, Best Original Score--Motion Picture | |
British Academy Awards (1988) | | | Lyle Conway, et al., Nominee, Best Special Effects |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...A full-blown movie musical, and quite a winning one....It's not hard to understand this good-natured material's durability..." 12/19/1986 p.C5Variety
"...[The] tech credits are excellent....[The] camerawork suggests a world like no other....On film the numbers are impressive set pieces, imaginatively staged with wonderful sets..." 12/10/1986 Los Angeles Times
"...Grandly loony, full-bodied and explosively funny. It's a movie that connects with its audience in a big way....The actors and lines are on target, the music has a swing and bite, the camera seems exuberant..." 12/19/1986 p.C1 Premiere
"[T]he movie is one of the better movie musicals produced in our largely post-movie-musical era." 12/01/2004 p.168 Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
All of the wonders of Little Shop of Horrors are accomplished with an offhand, casual charm. The movie doesn't labor its jokes or insist on its virtuoso special effects, but devotes its energies to seeming unforced and delightful. The big laughs, when they come, are explosive (such as the payoff of Martin's big musical number), but the quiet romantic moments are allowed to have their coy innocence. - Roger Ebert
Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 8 of 10
Very entertaining black comedy/musical... Greene (repeating her stage role) is a delight as his squeaky-voiced heartthrob, Martin hilarious as her macho boyfriend.
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