The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016)

I love many musical productions and one of my favourites is Jesus Christ Superstar, which has been redone many times with varying degrees of success, but do any of them beat the Ted Neeley version in 1973, probably not, but they are all very good and have their own merits. Ian Gillan as JCS was mind blowing!For me RHPS original is sublime! Since then there have been many many stage shows which I am sure we all love! The way to treat this movie is as a stage show version of the orignal that has been filmed and edited on superb film sets in high quality sound and video! The voices are out of this world, the acting is just as tongue in cheek as the orignal and it's great fun! Laverne Cox is incredibly sexy in this role and her voice gives me shivers and goosebumps! I especially love the Tina Turner style dancing on Rose Tint My World.So if you haven't seen it, go in with an open mind of a production version of the film, not a competitor and enjoy the familiar songs and story performed by some top actors and singers, it's an 8 from me! Nicely done.....

As someone who was originally a huge nope to a remake of this, but has also seen a lot of good remakes lately, I thought I'd give this a chance to prove me wrong. I really ... really... really... was right, this should've never been remade. This was so bad I just logged into my account for the first time in probably a year. I've never done a review of any movie before, but I watched this, and I had to let this one thing at least be known:If you have ONLY seen this version, try to erase the entire thing from your memory and please watch the original. Its a beautiful story and nothing like these emotionless hipster kids playing Halloween dress up. Oh and Jesus Christ is it that hard to find an actual tap dancer?

It's got a modern look! Better cameras! Cleaner soundtrack! Even more exaggerated! An even more slick and polished soundtrack that sounds like it was produced along with a big band! It sucks!I heard the slick, styled remake of The Time Warp that reminded me of Footloose and couldn't help but laugh at this farce. And when you hear the classic line "it's just a jump to the left!" you hear zero spirit and strength from Tim Curry, who sounds like he's sadly on his way out. No spirit, no gusto, no enthusiasm, more like grabbing a name who is so far past his prime and getting him excited about one last time... driving at the Indy 500 as a septuagenarian. That's what this is.The original was ridiculous. The music was clearly the best part and the movie so ridiculous that the fun was in talking back to the screen such as in Mystery Science Theatre 3000. And the only saving graces in this film is that Tim Curry is so hilarious with his perfectly timed facial expressions, inspired by not copying anyone else. Yet this version rips everything that "worked" out from the original to create a pitiful "homage" version - complete with an audience talking back to the screen - as if it wants to have nostalgic appeal to old fans and bring them in. It's such forced fun that it's painful to watch. Even the famous "I see you shiver in anticip.... ation" line is blown badly. It's so overproduced shmaltzy Hollywood conceit that it completely misses the point of why Curry's take was so fresh. I have no problem with multiculturalism but this one also strains it with adding another name, Ben Vereen, into the mix. Someone in Hollywood came up with this dumb idea to appeal to everyone and casting a black transsexual as Dr. Frank... which is missing the entire point. The point is that Frank is obviously a MAN dressed up as a woman, not a man who has been phsycially altered and is taking hormones to look like a woman. They just decided to go with "well, she's popular, black and does a pretty good imitation, let the story line and point of the whole routine be damned."Rating this a 4 is giving it too much credit, even with some of the talent in the show. Adam Lambert is pretty funny and nails his small part very well. But even he can't save this overproduced farce which has cutaways to show it's a movie / musical and that merchandise can be purchased easily and tweet it out to all your friends. Hollywood only survives because Indies have yet to supplant this big budget slop.

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.