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While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This re-make is pretty fabulous! But it had a messed up release by Fox who have since blocked most clips of it on You Tube. Fox has pretty much buried it. It's every bit as good as the original and better in many ways. I think all the minor characters are better in the re-make and it's a very different presentation but superior in my opinion. The Jury's out on Frank'n Furter though...a different interpretation but a noble one. Tim Curry, who makes a pretty deflated appearance in the new version, is a hard act to follow. But the Transgender actress Laverne Cox, who plays the new Frank pretty much knocks it out of the ballpark. She has big steps to fill but she does a great job. I loved it! Probably more than the original to be perfectly...well, um...Frank. I Hope you can track it down. Sadly the haters attacked the re-make and Fox Films did nothing to save it. Such a pity...I thought it was brave and quite extraordinary! Hopefully, like the original Rocky, which was also a box office flop, it will live again. Ignore the low ratings. This is in most ways a superior version.

This was just a popped out version of an iconic film and musical. It's supposed to be rock music and the lip-syncing is just too obvious and terrible. The cast seemed to have no energy and really was just a huge let down all round. If you have seen the original Rocky Horror Picture Show, don't waste your time with this because it will just make you mad. 10/10 would NOT recommend!!

Disclaimer: Unlike some other reviewers of this movie, I was introduced to Rocky Horror through the 2015 live show starring David Bedella and Ben Forster, among others (it's on YouTube, give it a watch). While I wasn't familiar with the audience participation or the dressing up, I immediately fell in love with this story of new love being tested and surviving against all odds. This also may have opened me up to the possibility of many "Rocky"s and made it feel less like an attack on an interest I felt very close to. While that version still remains my favorite, I am a firm believer that this movie does not deserve all the criticism that it got. Where it failed, it failed spectacularly, but when it soared, it invoked an emotional connection in me that I never felt watching the original 1975 movie.For the most part, the cast is wonderful. Victoria Justice and Ryan McCartan shine as the movie's protagonists, and bring layers to the characters that made me think more critically about how I viewed them. In particular, the emphasis on bisexual/multi-gendered attraction in a non-shaming way was a nice contrast to the narrative of the stage show & 1975 movie, wherein Janet "becomes a slut" and Brad "turns gay". (Granted, I knew about Ryan since his days in Heathers, so I was excited when I heard he'd be playing Brad.) Laverne Cox shone during the floor show, and while her take on the character didn't feel brand-new, she brought new meaning to the role of Frank-n-Furter in the modern day. Other highlights include Christina Millan and that blue-haired rocker Transylvanian. The performances by Annaleigh Ashford and Tim Curry fell flat for me, but I appreciate Ashford's grungy/fangirl take on Columbia and Tim Curry was really trying to give a great performance in the aftermath of his stroke. I understand that Ortega and the casting team used Curry to replace Richard O'Brien after the transphobic comments O'Brien made about Laverne, but other actorsfrom the 1975 film (like Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, and Little Nell) all indicated an interest in playing the Criminologist as well. Could Ortega have worked in a team of actors, ala Stephen Fry/Antony Head/Mel Gideroyc/Emma Bunton? Just a thought.The reworking of the story shines. What a lot of modern Rocky fans forget in their reviews is the political stance the movie took in the 70s, and Ortega's interests in creating an adaptation with modernized messages about LGBTQ identity. As a trans guy, I fully supported and encouraged Ortega's choice to cast Laverne in a traditionally male role. Sure, drag queens were exciting and new when the show was conceived, but isn't it a greater homage to the original's political identity to cast the first trans actor ever leading on a major TV network? Isn't that exciting and new? I also appreciated the subtle nod to the modern role of the police versus individuals of color, and the phasing out of Frank-n-Furter's "mental illness" that resulted in the excusing of murder. In 1975, Riff Raff's killing of Frank may have represented the pro- police view that it was heroic to put down a dangerous criminal, but in the 2016 film, Ortega tried his hardest to show a new side of the narrative by suggesting that Riff Raff, a white and (presumably) cisgender & straight man killing an unarmed trans black woman is a more modern reflection of today's police state. This narrative may have come across as forced and clunky, but I have to give him credit for trying.Yes, the soundtrack is overproduced, and the workarounds for the TV-14 rating are awkward, and certain elements still miss what I personally believe the true message of Rocky Horror to be, but this take on a familiar classic tries its hardest to get rid of the original's transmisogynistic undertones and move its political message into a new age, while still managing to have a lot of fun in the process. It's a big, fun party covered in gold and glitter, imposing on its viewers a simple message: Don't just dream that LGBTQ-friendly media can exist in the mainstream. Make it a reality.

I'm a very big fan of the original, and when I saw the remake was in the works, I was pretty stoked. However, after watching it, and then giving a second watch (after watching the original first) for comparison, and the benefit of the doubt, it's clear that it wasn't anywhere close to the campy quality of the original, and wasn't as fun to watch, if not difficult/uncomfortable to watch at times.There's a lot of things that I disliked about this remake, and I feel like I'm going to be dissecting everything. However I will give props on the costumes for Brad and Janet, but that's where I draw the line on accuracy. I love Victoria Justice's voice. It's very satisfying to listen to, but that's about it. She, among a lot of the cast, are clearly very into it, almost too into it, however there's not as much energy as the original, which I didn't think would be possible.The casting of Frank N Furter was sorta uncomfortable to watch, maybe it's just me that sees it as a little iffy for a transgender woman to play a man who just dresses as a woman (Frank is a transvestite, not a transgender woman). Clearly if Laverne Cox has no issue, then it's probably a complaint from a trans person with a differing point of view, as much as it may not be a real issue, it was still hard to watch due to the performance, especially with the accent slipping every so often. I'm a fan of Cox, but choosing a woman for the role, and making Frank a woman, isn't really the direction I saw this going in, nor am I a fan of it.There's the casting of Brad and Janet, who easily made the best performances of the movie. Reeve Carney was also one of the better choices in casting, the actor has a great voice which suited the character of Riff-Raff, and didn't blend into the background as much as Magenta did. When she did have dialogue, she was hard to watch and had a very grating high voice. Columbia wasn't memorable. They tried to compensate for the flat performance with the bright pink and blue hair, but didn't really succeed. In the original she had plenty of energy, but this version seemed to take the punk aesthetic too far with the "not caring attitude" but it just made her unlikeable. There's not much room for complaint with Rocky, as he stayed mostly close to the original character, there's not much dialogue to mess up for him. Ben Vereen turned Dr Scott into a comedic character, which isn't a very favourable character change either.The biggest flaw in casting to me was Adam Lambert being picked to play Eddie. I understand he's a big LGBT icon, and I have a feeling the modern LGBT community was the audience this remake was mostly aimed at, and that he's a singer with a great voice, I unironically listen to his old hits on a regular basis as well as his new ones. But his voice just doesn't do it for me in this particular genre (being rock n roll). Meatloaf gave some amazing grinding vocals for a real rock n roll feel, but I wouldn't say that Lambert's voice achieved this, and like a lot of the other parts of the movie, fell flat, turning a rock n roll song into a horrendous and sloppy pop anthem.Some of the songs were okay, such as "There's a Light (Over at the Frankenstein Place", and "Dammit Janet". But the Time Warp and Sweet Transvestite were butchered, which is a shame, as those are the most iconic parts of the movie. In other words, a complete debacle, like "Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul" and "Eddie" (though arguably we hear some rock-style vocals from Lambert, which would have been nice to see earlier when he had a full song)."Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me" fell flat (I feel like I've said this a lot), I feel like it was watered down from the original. The song is supposed to be sexier, the subject matter of the song can't exactly be watered down like they did here, and the mismatch of the song lyrics and the actions from everyone involved in the song made me feel like I was watching a school production as opposed to the movie that gives a nod to a few adult themes. The whole movie seems watered down to get as low of an age rating as possible and to cause as little offense as possible. That and making it "old school rock and roll" but as modern as possible? This is another mismatch that just didn't sit right.I enjoyed seeing Tim Curry making an appearance, but it was also unsettling, considering he'd be associated with a movie that was a mockery of the one that helped to start his career, I wonder how he feels about it post- production?The remake didn't do the original any justice, but you can tell they really tried. Props to everyone involved for really trying to make this a good production but the efforts didn't really have a great result. The audience participation prompts were an interesting addition, but didn't revive the performances from half of the cast. The original should have been left alone, as the cult classic we know and love, that is almost a decade shy of being 50 years old.