A remake should bring something to the table and I was hopeful when they started out with the usherette singing Science Fiction which is the high point of the movie. Everything goes down from there as the most miscast movie struggles to not look like the worst amateur dress rehearsal ever of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Poorly staged, directed and some of the worst acting I have ever seen. It seems that the producer (Adler trying to milk Rocky for whatever is left) Casts Cox (OITNB) for what I can only guess is to exploit her own personal, sexuality. It is a colossal mistake since she is far to opposing of a presence to gain sympathy as Frank N Futter which is necessary to sell the end of the play. She is not the worst in the film, that would probably be the actor who plays Brad, with Magenta a very close second (I do not want to mention Columbia since just reading off your lines with no emotion is not acting at all.) The thing that really brings the show down is Ben Vereen and Tim Curry, two wonderful stage actors, who now in various stages of illness, seem pathetic in these supporting parts as they struggle against a senseless, and poorly executed production that should have been aborted before the first set was built. My suggestion is to watch the first number and then watch the classic Rocky Horror...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
(2016 TV Movie)
Disaster or how Rocky Horror died
23 April 2017