Awful songs drag down this mediocre musical.

Rating: Null/10 (4 December 2002)

I love music and I love movies but I very rarely enjoy any mixing of the two. I can count on one hand the amount of musicals I can tolerate, let alone enjoy, so you can take my reaction to this overrated and tedious "post-punk neo-glam rock musical" with a pinch of salt if you like, I don't care. An obvious attempt to jump on the 'Rocky Horror' bandwagon (another movie that bores me stupid), 'Hedwig And The Angry Inch' gives lots of lip service to two of my favourite performers Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, but I honestly could hear very little of their influence on the mostly awful songs in this movie. One number which I can't recall the title of had a Richard Hell feel to it and that one was okay, but the rest of them stink. As this is a musical, and the songs also tell most of the story, if you don't like them then there's very little else to keep your attention. I'm sorry, but I got absolutely nothing out of watching this movie, and have no plans of ever sitting through it again. Life is too short and there are two many great movies out there to watch instead of wasting time with mediocrities like this. And if you want to hear some genuinely entertaining transsexual rock'n'roll dig up some old records by Wayne/Jayne County, at least they actually ROCK.