Where to begin... where to begin. Well as my gay friend Soufian would say, "Oh the gays are gonna eat this up." So much about this film identifies with both gay people and weird people. And quite possibly, some gay weird people. There's the fact that Tim Curry plays a transvestite alien from the planet Transexual in the galaxy of Transylvania, there's the gold lamé shorts that his muscle-bound blonde-haired creation sports throughout the film, there's the rainbow-tinted glass tub which the creation is born from, there's the hero's resistance to sex with the transvestite at first but then accepting it, there's the exact same scenario but with the heroine Janet (Susan Sarandon), and all of the various other bizzarrities of the film which identify strongly with the flamboyance of the gay community as well as the penchant for the strange that exists in the weirdo community. I even have some friends who are neither gay nor weird and they also are part of the massive cult following that this film has.
However I do believe that it was a bit too weird for me. And I have been subject to some pretty strange films. I would say I'm also a bit weird myself. But not the Meatloaf-dressed-like-a-fifties-biker-getting-slaughtered-by-Tim-Curry-in-women's-clothing weird. My ill-reception of the film was made only the stronger by my poor health at the time.
Love it or hate it, I don't care whether you're gay, weird, not weird, straight, curvy, voluptuous, Susan Sarandon, John Voight, Nicholas Cage, Jack Nicholson, Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Ernest Borgnine, Joe Pesci, Val Kilmer, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp, Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Hyde Pierce, Pierce Brosnan, Matthew Broderick, Matthew Perry, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Kyra Sedgwick, Kurt Vonnegut, Darth Vader, Rob Schmidt, Francis Ford Coppola, Carl Sagan, Agent Smith, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Walkin, or you need more cowbell, go and see it.
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