Review of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) by Ben T — 09 Jan 2016

Rocky Horror Picture Show is one of the biggest cult movies of all time. Whenever they play this film in cinemas people flock to see it and pretty much worship this film and well I think it's pretty overrated. Now don't get me wrong Rocky Horror Picture Show is a good movie and parts of it are great but I found it a bit meh. This film does have a lot of good in it. The main characters are very likeable and all the acting is good. Tim Curry is amazing, he has the best song in the movie, he chews up the scenery and he's one of the best silly villains ever. The songs are great, especially Time Warp and Sweet Transvestite. The set design and production designs are brilliant to look at.

However for me this film is just meh. I love the movie from opening to the creation of Rocky but after that scene the film's quality takes a drastic dip. This film also just gets a bit boring and it feels a lot longer than 90 minutes. I also think the climax is quite weak. I get why people love this film but I just don't think it's amazing and it's just kind of okay. I did enjoy this film and I do think it's good but this film feels like it would be better as a play than a movie, which it is and apparently the play is a lot better. Overall I did enjoy this movie but it's very underwhelming. I would reccomend it for lovers of musicals but for everyone else is say maybe give it a watch. B-.