Frank-N-Furter meets Groucho meets Pee Wee Herman

Rating: 4/10 (15 July 2001)

I left the theater feeling like I had seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pee Wee's Playhouse, the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, and MTV -- all at once. Needless to say, such an amalgam was sometimes disconcerting. In fact, that combination was too much for the film to carry; it often failed to come together.
References to songs of different eras seemed silly at first but grew on me as the movie progressed. (One must ignore dozens of anachronisms if one is, as I was, determined to get some pleasure from the film.) Despite some fine special effects, the first twenty minutes somehow manages to be the most boring. And, some dialogue was laugh-out-loud ridiculous. What kind of lyric is "even though my make-up's flaking..."?
I found the "Roxanne" scene the most compelling because it worked narratively, musically and visually.
While the film would lose something on a smaller screen, I don't think it's worth the full price of admission.