Well, only a few songs are memorable. The main theme and when "Audrey 2" sings are the best. The song "Suddenly Seymour" is good but not great. The best song is "Downtown", a true send-up of the Petula Clark classic. Ellen Greene's revealing push-up front is quite annoying and Steve ("Elvis") Martin is the meanest dentist of all time with Bill Murray his strangest pain-loving patient. Look for other cameos, including John Candy and Jim Belushi. (I actually had a dentist not wait for the Novocain to kick-in, so I changed dentists.) Frank Oz at his best and that great 4-Tops & Motown Sound. I love the "Slumtown Supremes". A great and scary plant-"puppet". Just wonderful. At it's worst, a true "horror" film but no worse than the old black and white original. Fun-to-watch, but little kids will have nightmares. A guilty pleasure, worth seeing from time-to-time! Only surpassed by "Rocky Horror Picture Show" as a classic Halloween movie-musical.

The 1986 musical version is adapted from the successful Off Broadway play. The film was shot in London and filmed in the style of a musical play hence you get this interior staged bound feel to this movie.Rick Moranis plays Seymour a nerdy, hapless and put upon flower shop boy owned by Mr Mushnik (Vincent Gardenia.) Seymour is in love with the blonde, beautiful Audrey (Ellen Greene) but she is going out with psycho, motor biking dentist Orin (Steve Martin.)After an eclipse Seymour discovers a new plant which becomes an instant hit with the customers who all flock to the shop to admire it. The plant which Seymour calls Audrey II needs feeding and as it gets bigger so does his lust for human flesh and blood.The film is uneven, some of the song numbers are interesting but too many are overbearing or just drone on. Moranis is in his element as the put upon nerdy type with dark edges as he goes along with the desires of his insatiable plant maybe from outer space voiced by Levi Stubbs. Ellen Greene is simply delectable and divine as Audrey. It is left to Martin to deliver the laughs as the sadistic biker and the best scenes are between him and Bill Murray as the masochist patient who leave Martin questioning his nastiness.It is a fine enough retro musical and the version I saw also had the alternate and a more grim ending.

A nerdy shop assistant and a wannabe botanical mad scientist Seymour (Rick Moranis) discovers an abandoned plant, which he nurses back to health, in the process turning the fortunes of his boss' flower shop and earning the admiration of his fellow assistant Audrey (Ellen Greene). The only problem being the actual nursing, for the carnivorous plant requires his blood to thrive.Little Shop of Horrors is a love letter to the early B-films. Every single character is a stereotype of a stereotype, from the nerdy protagonist to the extreme doormat of a love interest suffering in a bad relationship, from which only her one true love could possible safe her, to the bullying jock villain to the greedy boss. The story line is also pretty much textbook and very clichéd, though in a somewhat unexpected way. You've definitely seen all the elements before, but the film can still surprise you with the way it mixes those elements together. It's definitely not a perfect blend, because the middle part of the film drags quite a bit and the characters are such cardboard cutouts that you don't really identify with them, making the drama part of the film fail miserably.But the humour works. The plant is a lot of fun, with its deep, booming voice and impossible demands. The jock bully has probably the best twist surprise in the whole film, plus the best song, and the love interest is so whimpering and so under the thumb that it turns from annoying to kind of funny more than once. And the original ending, which was restored in 2012 by the studio, is so over the top that you cannot help but laugh because of its dark humour.The music is also pretty good, heavily utilizing these three background singer girls, who're always switching roles to fit into the situation. Though I do have to admit that very few of the songs are all that memorable. Both the villain songs are amazing, and you'll be humming them for weeks, and the opening number does set the mood very well, but all the others I have no recollection of, and it hasn't been that long.All in all, the movie is something of a mixed package. It has some truly great moments and an excellent initial idea, but it flows something haltingly and the two main characters could have been fleshed out a bit more. Still, definitely worth a watch if camp is your thing.

Don't listen to all the bad press. This movie is highly underrated. I checked it out of the library, expecting a few laughs and maybe a few memorable songs. What I got is one of my favorite musicals ever!The set design is flawless. Specifically, the set's centerpiece, Audrey II, is jaw-droppingly realistic (as well as wonderfully voice by Levi Stubbs).The acting is perfection. Rick Moranis is a complete surprise - he is a powerhouse of vocal stamina. Ellen Greene gets a lot of criticism because she's "annoying", but I thought her simple approach to the character was very well realized, and she brought a unique depth to the character by being simple and blonde, like Marilyn Monroe. The guest performances are uproarious. Who new Steve Martin could sing? And Bill Murray's cameo as a masochistic dentist patient is gut-busting. The songs are fantastic. Menken and Ashman are already well-known for their work in LITTLE MERMAID, ALADDIN, and BEAUTY & THE BEAST, and this musical goes in the same vein. Worth a watch, I want to own it! See it - you will not be disappointed!