The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Critic Reviews

Viewed on video simply as a movie, without the midnight sideshow, it's cheerful and silly, and kind of sweet, and forgettable.

The wit is too weak to sustain a film, and the songs all sound the same.

Most of the jokes that might have seemed jolly fun on stage now appear obvious and even flat. The sparkle's gone.

A great midnight movie experience in the theaters, but the film itself is a bit of a bore.

Like the hugely successful B-Movie that inspired it, Harry Novak's 1965 sexploitation classic "Kiss Me Quick!" "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is an exploitation film that draws on a grab-bag of social identifiers to expand on conventional hypocrisies wit

The film itself is a lot of fun -- but the audience-participation phenomenon has turned it into a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience.

Best seen with wild crowd at midnight. Otherwise, nope.

A string of hummable songs gives it momentum, Gray's admirably straight-faced narrator holds it together, and a run on black lingerie takes care of almost everything else.

If that's your kind of movie, you're in for a real treat.

One of the greatest motion pictures ever made.

A very good film in its own right; it's a triumph of clever filmmaking by Jim Sharman, who should have gone on to bigger things.

I'm betting most fans have never really watched the film, they being distracted by the parade of guys in fishnets and flying toast.