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First things showtime, I was amongst the few who was genuinely excited well-nigh this remake. I thoroughly enjoyed 2015'south "Rocky Horror Show Live" (check Yous Tube) and the diverse other musical Boob tube productions of recent years. Still, my enthusiasm gradually transformed into cloy for what I was witnessing. When I was in junior loftier and high school, I was ridiculed for my obsessive love of Rocky Horror. And so in 1991, Fob debuted the film for Halloween and the next 24-hour interval, the very same kids who'd made fun of me were Time Warping in the schoolhouse hallway. Information technology was weird, and I later on realized that was THE moment when RHPS began to mutate from a subversive cult thing to a mainstream archetype. Watching this sleeky travesty, I found myself overwhelmed by that aforementioned uneasy feeling I had a quarter-century ago after Fox first aired the picture.
It took me a while to figure out the problem with the 2016 version. The bandage and coiffure bestowed it with the same respect that audiences accept shown the movie in theaters for decades: They've treated information technology like it's schlock to be made fun of. There were certainly campy winks and nods in the original, but when it came time for the characters to emote, you believed Tim Curry could abruptly snap and violently murder someone or Susan Sarandon was having spontaneous orgasms. Those nuances are generally absent in the performances here, and it'south and then self-enlightened and Disney-fied that it's kind of insulting. It's one thing for the audience to mock the screen, only most of the actors are mocking the characters that they themselves are portraying, which just doesn't work.
The dishonor of worst performance goes to Ben Vereen, who was woefully miscast equally Dr. Scott. Placing the black Vereen in the part of uncle to white Adam Lambert's Eddie was a questionable decision to begin with, merely Vereen mugs his way through his scenes, interim as if he'due south starring in some insipid kiddie comedy. It's downright bizarre. Runner-up in the worst performer category goes to Laverne Cox, who gives an absolutely exuberant but ultimately hollow performance as the mad scientist. Cox offered none of the underlying menace that Back-scratch displayed in the role (Tim Curry could kill you lot, but Laverne Cox but seems capable of a whopping bitchslap) and she played it like she was the singular star in a glitzy drag evidence, mimicking Curry's syllables and vocal inflections with an annoying, fluctuating British/Southern Belle accent. The adept Franks (Anthony Head, for instance) fully inhabited the grapheme and injected it with their own stamp, which Cox did not.
Perhaps the worst attribute of this product (overlooking the fact that the dancers aren't doing the steps being audibly described in the titular Time Warp) is how they've systematically whitewashed the rampant sexuality which was and so pivotal to the flimsy plot. Today sexual deviancy is socially acceptable, other network Goggle box offerings frequently devolve into scenes that would accept once been considered X-rated -- and the Trick network aired the original film numerous times throughout the 1990s with minimal trims, so in that location's really no alibi. Casting Cox equally a woman (regardless of the fact that she used to exist a dude) completely undermines the story of the wholesome Leave it to Beaver couple beingness torn autonomously by a kinky sexual practice freak. It was the gay customs which embraced the movie back in the '70s, we have at least one openly gay and ane transgendered star, and withal virtually all traces of homosexuality (as well as incest) were eliminated. It's oddly incongruous and completely destroys the narrative.
That's non to say that everything'south bad. Adam Lambert and Ivy Levan are stand up-outs as Eddie and the Usherette. Annaleigh Ashford gave a radically unlike interpretation of Columbia which works well, given the character's story arc. Similarly, Reeve Carney made Riff-Raff his own. Victoria Justice has an crawly singing voice. Tim Curry lends an appropriate air of dignity, and although he was physically unable to do all the things that his part required (such as turning the pages of a book), they came upward with an inventive workaround. Squeamish to see him again, even in poor health. Unfortunately, the cons FAR outweigh the pros in this product.
Generally speaking, the remake that no one wanted (dating back to the days when MTV was going to practice it) has lived upwards to all of the hateful hype. It brings nothing new to the table, information technology's similar a pallid carbon-re-create on tissue paper. Your best bet's to stick with the original, see the 2015 version or catch a live show instead.
- VinnieRattolle
- Oct 21, 2016
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