Seymour (Rick Moranis) is an orphan who since he was a little kid works in a little flower shop owned by Mr. Mushnik (Vincent Gardenia). Soon Seymour will find a mysterious plant at a flower-seller 'round the corner and the film will start developing. Seymour starts caring for the plant very much who he named after a girl he works with and is in love with Audrey (Ellen Greene), who is in a relationship with a sadistic dentist Orin (Steve Martin). After Seymour cuts himself he finds out that the plant is carnivorous and that it can talk. Audrey II (Levi Stubbs) now spreads terror as it grows bigger and bigger and Seymour can't do anything to stop it.
Little Shop of Horrors is a sometimes cheerful sometimes sad and sometimes gruesome film based on a 1982 off-Broadway musical who in turn is based on a 1960 Roger Corman low-budget horror film with a same plot just without singing. But no matter in what mood it is it's always colorful, fun and very satirical. I loved it's cheery exterior as it tells a story of mass murder and a carnivorous plant, the film almost seems like something out of a mind of a Monty Python member on drugs.
All in all it's a colorful, amusing and intelligent adults-only fun.
RATING: ***** (5/5)
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