The Rocky Horror Picture Show Reviews
September 22, 2020
If we choose one piece of culture ephemera to beam into space to let aliens know we're here, let it be this. The universe is filled with weirdos lost in time, lost in space, but through Rocky Horror perhaps we can find one another.
May 21, 2020
For the most part it moves spiritedly along and the whole thing is a giant giggle. It's all so blatantly outrageous it can only be taken in the spirit of campy fun; this is one time a stage production has been enhanced by the film version.
November 22, 2019
The music is only adequate, and the acting leaves something to be desired, except in the case of Tim Curry, who manages some fine turns as Dr. Frank N. Furter.
October 10, 2015
Famous for its allure as an audience-participation event, this adaptation of the stage musical works just fine as a solo viewing at home, with no resultant diminishment of its highlights.
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| Original Score: 3/4
January 18, 2014
a lot of fun for fans of the science fiction and horror genres
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
October 31, 2012
One hundred minutes of pure queer celebration that manages to concoct a bizarre cocktail of sincerity and reckless abandon.
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| Original Score: 5/5
October 22, 2012
It's like art-rockers Roxy Music let loose on Frankenstein - ludicrous, but oddly compelling. And it even stars Meat Loaf.
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| Original Score: 4/5
October 30, 2010
A great midnight movie experience in the theaters, but the film itself is a bit of a bore.
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| Original Score: 6/10
October 30, 2010
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| Original Score: 4/5
April 12, 2009
Like the hugely successful B-Movie that inspired it, Harry Novak's 1965 sexploitation classic "Kiss Me Quick!" "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is an exploitation film that draws on a grab-bag of social identifiers to expand on conventional hypocrisies...
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| Original Score: A-
January 11, 2008
Most of the jokes that might have seemed jolly fun on stage now appear obvious and even flat. The sparkle's gone.
January 11, 2008
The film itself is a lot of fun -- but the audience-participation phenomenon has turned it into a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience.
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| Original Score: 3/4
October 24, 2007
That celebration of being unique and surreal, whether Gay, straight, or just an oddball, all around.
March 24, 2007
Original Score: 3/5
February 9, 2007
The wit is too weak to sustain a film, and the songs all sound the same.
May 4, 2006
Best seen with wild crowd at midnight. Otherwise, nope.
Original Score: 3/5
February 9, 2006
A string of hummable songs gives it momentum, Gray's admirably straight-faced narrator holds it together, and a run on black lingerie takes care of almost everything else.
August 18, 2005
If that's your kind of movie, you're in for a real treat.
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| Original Score: A
July 2, 2005
Original Score: 3/5
April 22, 2005
Original Score: 1/5