This is easily one of the worst movies I've seen. Almost everything about it is bad. Why cast a transexual woman as Dr. Frank N Furter? The whole idea of that character is that it's A MAN DRESSED AS A WOMAN. While Laverne is actually a man, he has gone through a lot of surgery to look feminine, the role was terribly miscast, when you see ''her'' you certainly don't think it's a man dressed in woman's clothing. The acting was incredibly bad, i felt like I was watching one of my school plays, over the top, it felt like they were rehearsing. And isn't Rocky supposed to be a few hours old? he sings and dances like someone who's been doing it for years. Dr Scott was horrible. The only actual good part was the intro, I thought it was pretty cool, and I already knew Ivy and I think she was great. The singing wasn't bad, it was pretty good, but man, this sucked big time.

All the negative reviewers are straight on. I will add a few more things.They obviously were reproducing, mostly, the play with a few flourishes from the movie so the shallowness can be somewhat explained.This deserves some credit for a few "spark"s of originality, namely a couple of lines of dialogue, good production, a modicum of update & an original song. If only they had spent a few more dollars on good writers, they could have updated the movie nicely. Let this be a lesson. You already have a good story & good songs: thats at least 1/3 of the movie.But don't use a tranny for the lead, OK? HE needs to be a transvestite, not a real transsexual. That was just a joke!Better luck next time, hopefully in this millennia.

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.

It would be fine for a college production or something. But there is minimal homage and the direction is like the cast of Glee pretending to go through puberty and suck the life out of the story. I'm going to pretend Ben Vereen and Tim Curry have lost their minds. This makes me sad. Now I'm going to watch the original.BTW, here's your spoiler.....it's crap.