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I know a lot of people hate this movie, but I enjoyed this movie a lot.

I had the theatrical version growing up on VHS. I never knew about the alternate ending until like thirty years later. But, the happy ending did seen out of place looking back.

I disagree with most of the criticisms you mention about Spider-Man 1 and 2, Sam Raimi needs to make his last Spider-Man 4 with Tobey to redeem himself for the problems he had with Spider-Man 3, it's his and our dream, he wanted Spider-Man 4 to be the best one.

At the VERY LEAST the 3rd spider man is the 3rd best spider man movie all the others sucks ass ESPECIALLY the Andrew Garfield version

love the sam raimi spider-men movies because they really emulate the silver age of spider man. these movies FEEL like comics, whereas nowadays super hero films just take themselves too seriously. could have been the best spider-man film if raimi had complete control :((

I hope you continue to the Tom holland movies. As for me I still think these 3 are the cream of the crop. They all made feel for the characters and it’s always going to be that way. To me the holland movies just annoy me no end. It’s just Tom hollands Peter should feel endearing to me on paper. But there’s just disconnect that’s hard to explain.

Great video! Watched it since it was in my suggested and assumed it was from a channel with tens of thousands of subs. Keep it up!

Very underrated videos, man. You deserve more recognition :P

The original trilogy had kirsten dunst, case closed, pack it up people

Definitely underrated. Good cinematic intro to venom. Sandman is lame tho.

I was first introduced to this musical through the 2004 Alan Menken retrospective on the Aladdin dvd and I bought it on dvd soon after and ever since I’ve called it the Warner brothers musical that changed Disney and I think you know why

I love when poor people win #slay

I love both endings ❤

I totally agree with this video. Although there are aspects of the directors ending I enjoy-like the giant pods going on a rampage through New York-as a whole, it was just way too depressing and sad. A film is a totally different animal than a play. Film audiences are less cynical, and want to exit the movie theater happy, plus, at the end of the play, the actors all come out and bow to applause. A movie can't afford that luxury. Plus, Warner Brothers and the Geffen Company spent a *ton* of money on this movie. They couldn't afford to leave audiences sad and depressed, that's not good for business. And yes, I'm aware that the version with the happy ending wasn't a monster hit when it was first released, but it would've made even less money with the original ending, that's my point. And what made matters worse was its release date, which happened to be the weekend before Christmas in 1986. That's the last time of year you'd want to see a movie with such a downbeat ending. Now those who prefer the original ending say that the theatrical one nulls the whole point of the movie, which is that greed can destroy the earth. But I say, this is a musical about a talking, man-eating plant, it's not Death of a Salesman. Anyway, that's my take on it.

How about Seymour gets knocked out while the roof falls on him. He dreams that he defeats the plant and goes on to live a life with Audrey only to be rudely awakened by the plant and be eaten.

I agree I love the theatrical cut better than the director's cut Seymour and Audrey desveres to be together but Seymour is that bad he too sympathetic that's why they couldn't kill him in the movie but he needed to kill Audrey 2 because Audrey 2 wanted to take over the whole world that's why he stopped Audrey 2 and got the little house with audrey.

For me, calling the unhappy ending of the director's cut the "original" is confusing, since for most people, the happy ending was the first one they'd seen, and therefore seems like the original ending to them. Did you mean that the unhappy ending was the original ending because it was in the stage show?

16:47 when you watch a movie in front row

I grew up with the theatrical and happier ending of this movie! It's definitely much better than that director's cut ending which was just bad and sad.

I prefer the happy ending

Yeah this ending doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you consider the fact that, in order for these plants to go grow as big as Audrey 2 did by the time he ate Seymore is that each one would need to have been fed at least two to three people by their owners! And that's only if their owners figured out that they needed blood in the first place! Seymore made this discovery by accident! Now you're also saying that ALL of these people who owned these plants voluntarily went out and committed murder? And whats more NONE of them were caught by the police? Nobody reported so many mysterious vanishings? But getting back to the initial fact of even figuring out what these plants needed, these plants when sold were all clearly healthy, so somebody had to have made this connection. So on top of everything else, nobody stopped to think that maybe selling a plant that lives on human blood and nothing else might be a BAD idea? Or did the company selling them simply luck out and the plants simply didn't need blood until they reached their stage of growth when sold? If that's the case, I can only imagine how upset people got when their plants up and died on them. No one demanded their money back? Did people simply buy new plants? As the big as the hype was for these plants people on a whole aren't that stupid. Lastly, if Seymore had truly wanted to kill the plant. A simple solution could simply be to get some kerosene and just burn the whole shop down and then blame it on a electrical fire. It was Skid Row after all, that sort of thing probably happened on a regular basis! The plant was immobile and was only dangerous if you got close enough to it!

The original Ending fits better with the old Black & white movie, side note, there was a book of Broadway Musicals i saw in school that called "little Shop " a comparison to Sweeney Todd

I disagree, Little Shop is a dark comedy and the darker ending fits much better.

Personally, I prefer that theatrical ending. Not because it has a happy ending, though I admit that is my preference. But because when I showed the movie to my mother for the first time, she lost it right before Audrey 2 exploded, when it said “oh… Shit!” Little moments like that are what make the movie worthwhile.

I'm a giant monster fan myself, so I found the original ending interesting; but I agree, the destruction sequence goes on for far too long. However, I'm not sure if I prefer any ending to the story at all. If anything, the original movie by Roger Coreman might have it right; with Seymour successfully killing the plant but at the cost of his own life as well. But I have two big problems with the theatrical ending that I really wish had been better handled, and ultimately the two problems sort of blend into one the more I talk about them... The overall being is...the Theatrical Ending was _rushed;_ you can tell how improvised the new ending is. Audrey II is tearing apart Mushnik's shop like in the original, but before bringing it down on Seymour's head, the movie shows a redubbed footage of the plant's lips from earlier _that very scene._ Then the big departure...The fact that after guns, axes and even weed killer failed on this thing, Seymour emerges with the power-line and manages to electrocute the plant. Now don't get me wrong, this would be a good way to kill it...if it weren't for how the scene ends, with Audrey II exploding. Except because of how rushed it is, you can tell that Audrey II fades out from the shot and is immediately replaced with a really unfitting stock explosion. That right there, kills the immersion for me, because of how fake it looks. It literally feels so "hand-wavey" for a resolution of the climax. And it makes sense that Frank Oz didn't want to do it this way. But like I said, there's two problems in one; and the second problem besides the technical one - is the fact that the Plant is too damn powerful. Mean Green Mother slaps, but it establishes that this thing really is unstoppable at this point. It's casually tossing Seymour around and beating him up for literally nothing more than it's own amusement. And we're supposed to believe that the thing that stops it is a lose electrical wire? It seems too easy. I think what needed to happen was two things... 1; Audrey is sitting by the sidelines the entire time watching Seymour dodging for his life. What she should be doing, is coming back with a can full of gasoline which she pours into the business. 2; When the end of the battle takes place, and Audrey throws the final bit of the gas onto Audrey II, then have Seymour emerge with the cable. Don't have it electrocute the plant; just _burn it._ Show it burning and dying in agony as Seymour and Audrey watch - embracing one another. And Seymour makes sure that not one remaining piece of it survived. It just can't simply remove the plant and show a stock explosion; no, you actually would have to set the plant prop _on fire_ and showcase it burning to sell the illusion that the plant is defeated. I feel like that would've both redeemed Seymour and gave him the happy ending he deserved.

The original Broadway inspired ending feels like an entirely different movie a-la THEM!, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, or Godzilla. It should be a separate movie. It's high time we had a giant monster plant rampage movie musical inspired by said films.

3:52 You're telling me they made a movie based on an Iron Maiden song?

I'd love to do a combination. Audrey thinks she's dying but has a "I'm getting better" comedic beat, the salesman comes in, Seymour confronts the Mean Green Mother but II starts to get the best of him, AUDREY saves HIM, destroying the weed, but they miss the one seedling that the salesman finds, so Seymour and Audrey must go on the radio to warn people Don't Feed The Plants.

In addition to the excellent reasons you've provided for why the theatrical ending is better that final shot of the plant breaking through the screen only works in theaters. It's a great sight gag but by 1986 VCRs were already popular and people were buying copies of movies they loved. I checked and the 1986 Little Shop was released on VHS and Beta in 1987. The intimacy of home viewing could make Audrey and Seymour's deaths even harder and the final sight gag, funny as it is in theaters, just doesn't work on a small screen.

If you considered the original film as the first ending. Which is also kind of a downer given the character of Seymour, and is still sort-of there in the musical remake. You could say that both versions from Frank Oz were better. After seeing the first films ending I still can't see how Oz's bad ending didn't work. Especially since it bow-tied the setup of the plant coming from outer space.

I never felt like even the movie version of Seymour with his passivity didn't deserve comeuppance. A: that is the nature of tragedy. B: this is a horror-comedy and pulling punches is generically limp. Seymour deserves to have his agency taken away, to be berated, to be beaten anyways. You might as well tell me Hamlet should've stayed alive because he finally kills Claudius in act v. Inaction is just the abdication of responsibility, and it is Seymour's tragic, fatal flaw--in ANY version, no matter how softened he seemingly is by the film.

i refuse to watch this cuz you're blatantly talking shit but i appreciate you talking about it ty ily x

I hate to say this, and I'm not casting blame here...quite the opposite, but I think one reason I personally prefer the film ending is because of Rick Morannis. He plays such a lovable little character! So bullied, so meek, so deserving of happiness! Add to that, Rick's other roles like in Spaceballs and Ghostbusters, and I just can't help but like the guy no matter what he's playing. I don't want to see him get beat up. I don't want to see him die. I don't want to see him suffer. I want him to stand up, take down the evil plant, and ultimately be the little underdog who saves the day! Also, with the original ending, we don't get the hilarious "Oh poop!!!!!" death scene from Audrey Junior.

besides just sad, the movie version of the theater ending feels more grotesque, and not in the fun way the rest of the movie is. gratuitous, like you said. the reprise of somewhere that's green comes off more disturbing than sad.

Grew up loving this movie. Had no idea about the alternate movie until a few years ago when i showed my kids the movie from a 3rd party streaming app. I was shocked.

Just stumbled onto this in my recs, and I 100% agree. I've made the same arguments. And to toss another one on the pile: The movie substantially changes Seymour's character vs the stage, lightening him and greatly reducing his culpability. "The Meek Shall Inherit" was neutered, and they made big changes to the deaths of both the dentist and Mushnik - in both cases, changing Seymour from active participant and into a cowardly schmuck bumbling through the deaths. This makes movie Seymour feel much less villainous than previous versions, making it easier to accept a happy ending for him. I think this also adds even more punch to the sheer cruelty of the director's cut ending, like you talked about. Movie Seymour simply does not deserve to be tortured to death. Even previous Seymours got more dignified deaths than that, and they were genuine killers.

What about sliding down the mountain and falling into the rapids, huh?

"This ending is true to the original musical, and it is more narratively satisfying that Seymore ultimately pays for his sins, instead of being led off scot free." What sins??? Despite his involvement in the horror of it all, he never hurt ANYBODY. There where only TWO times that the plant ate a whole person, the first was the Sadistic dentist, who was far worse than Seymore and overdosed on laughing gas, technically, killing himself. Seymore just collected the body and fed it to her. The second time was when the plant ate Seymore's boss, which Seymore actually tried to warn him about and in all fairness the last time before that, Seymore had to shop up the body in order for her to eat it, so He probably thought that she couldn't kill people and before he could even realize it, his boss was gone. after that, he first decided that he wouldn't feed her anymore, but when she started belly aching, His heart seemed to have softened and then he tried to curb her appetite, to bargain with her to find something else to eat, other than Humans, but she fleet out refused, so he left without feeding her. I think Seymore's biggest flaw was that he was actually too kind and could not ignore the suffering of any creature, but the suffering was of a bloodthirsty man eater, he was still too kind hearted to not still see the plant as an intelligent living creature that has feelings and couldn't bring himself to just kill it and end it all, not to mention he was probably terrified of it, despite knowing that she was completely dependent on him, which he seemed to have try to use to his advantage offer to get her some ground beef, or nothing, which she appeared to reluctantly agree to, so he left to get the beef and then comes back with the beef to find the plant trying to eat Audrey. After saving Audrey and finding out about the plant's plan to spread her seed and chow down on mankind, he finally gets the resolve to put his own life on the line to end it once and for all. He walks right up to the plant and directly tells her "Only one of us is getting out of here alive!" A clear waning to her that if she doesn't kill him, he WILL kill her and an ironclad declaration of Seymore's intent to kill for the very first time." So, tell me... What sins did he commit, when all he did was trying to was seem to cherish life and try to find another way, until he realized there would never be another way and that he had to kill the plant, or all of Mankind would be doomed?

The original ending is funnier. It's hard to do a credible happy ending, but a comedy that ends on a downbeat rimshot is rare and wonderful

Little Shop of Horrors is my all-time favorite movie. I don't remember when I first watched it, because I was so young, I just know my parents had a copy on VHS, which quickly became my copy. I was already obsessed with it when I lived in a house my family moved out of when I was 7. As a kid, I ended up wearing out the VHS because I watched it so much, and the DVD (the theatrical version without the deleted ending special feature) was one of the first DVDs I ever bought. I still watch the movie at least once a year, often when I have guests who haven't seen it. And despite how important the movie is to me, and how the version I'm most familiar with is the theatrical version, I still prefer the Director's Cut ending, and since the DC Blu-ray came out, that's the version I watch most frequently, though I still watch the Theatrical version occasionally. I think if I had ANY complaint about the Director's Cut, it's that it goes directly form one song to another without anything in between.

Gremlins has crossed over into legit classic these days.

The audience adjusted ending to this is even superior to the whiplash that was the original 60's film ending. I LIKED the ending to that, it just went against the entire tone before it. THIS ending I outright hate, as did the audience it was originally tested on. They wanna give a movie the flavor of a stage play, that's all well and good-- it's an entire vibe and it can work-- but at the end of the day IT'S A MOVIE!! I can appreciate the flavor, but I didn't buy a ticket for a stage play, I bought a (mostly comedy no less) MOVIE! Seymour is the hero, and in the language of movies that means that he's REQUIRED to at least achieve SOMETHING even if he DOES die-- and that's as nihilistic as it has any business being, he really shouldn't even die.

4:15 "First time a movie musical brought back a stage actor to the role they originated" -- it had been fairly common even before then. Joel Grey/Cabaret, Barbra Streisand/Funny Girl, Robert Preston/The Music Man, Yul Brynner/The King & I, Ethel Merman/Call Me Madam, Eddie Cantor/Whoopee!, The Marx Brothers/The Cocoanuts, just off the top of my head.

I Like The Original Ending, It shows That love doesn't conquer all. NO, THE ROXY! 😭It went the way of the real ROXY Theater, Struck by lightning and burning down, There go the $1.00 Matinees. Corman Killed Seymour too. Well in all fairness to Tom Hooper, Hi, Jellicle's Advocate here. CATS 2019 Flopped due to 2 reasons, 1) Tom Hooper: Make The Cat your Own. And although that works for Jellicles like myself, Mentor Misto, and Sis, It Doesn't work for Jellicles like Bustopher Jones, Rum Tum Tugger, And JennyAnyDots. And 2) They changed The Heroine from Griz to Sis. Yes Victoria is My Jellicle Sister. Those are The Main 2 Reasons if you want more 3) The Super Cringe worthy scene of Maggie Daniels Driving a car onto set, THIS IS CATS, Although us Jellicles inhabit a world with Humans, Humans are off Stage, and Off Screen Characters, 4) They Chopped me to bits, Yes, I appear in the film if you know where to look, JennyAnyDots has my Collar of The Color Green, My Lady Love Rumpelteazer and her Brother Mungojerrie Have My Tag, with the L J replaced with an M and an R, Mentor Misto has my face and my Wand, while Bustopher Jones has my Mannerisms of rummaging in Garbage Cans. and 5) What did they do to Brother Alonzo. Frank Oz was Piggy, Fozzy, Bert, and Yoda just to name a few. Vines, Audrey II is a plant, it has vines not hands. Well except for CATS where The Audience is actually in The Junkyard with us Jellicle Cats. We move around and throughout the audience, Tugger even Leaps off of the stage to dance with an audience member, It's Called The Tugger Seats for a reason.

you just don't understand true kino

I disliked this film from its initial release, and not just because of the sappy tacked-on test audience pleasing finale. Its most glaring error is to drop four, count 'em, four songs and harming two more with bad rewrites. More subtly, as underlined by his disastrous Stepford Wives remake, Oz's directorial tone is all wrong. Little Shop's soft unfocused look which maybe shoots for a 1950s style is only mushy. The pacing lacks both snap to heighten the comedy and darkness to sharpen the horror. That's why the restored ending is so off. Too long, exactly as you say, sluggish with neither scares nor laughs. As a cinema lover whose home collection includes thousands of titles, this is one I have never and will never own.

Overall, i just love a happier ending compared to the original. Sure there might be some more emotion or karma or whatever and seymour mightve deserved it to an extent, but one- the ending song is superior. 2- hes not a bad guy, heck he didnt really even kill anyone. Hes just a laidback guy who's trying to do everything he can to make a happy life for himself and his love. And 3- we get a hilarious last words to this: "OHHHHH SHIIIIIT!" *BOOM*

I truly thought you were going to use more intellectual arguments against the original ending = such as to say "Why would more than a few people keep feeding the plants blood when Seymour did it because he had the only Audrey II at the time, what can all these baby plants offer people in a world where the Audrey II is already a popular household thing?" The only thing Audrey II could offer Seymour was the fame he would gain after the very first Audrey II got bigger and became interesting to passersby and television and print adverts... The only thing the baby plants could offer their owners is eating people they don't like. But that would just make the owners scared of the plants and they wouldn't offer the plants a 2nd sacrifice.

The happy ending is better but the original has the better song lol there cover of don't feed the plants is a bop.

After watching the video, thinking about the cut scenes I liked most, and reading several comments that had some really interesting ideas I think my ideal cut would definitely add "The Meek Shall Inherit", using a (reasonable length) "Don't Feed The Plants" as him imagining the end result, then finishing with the happy ending used in the final cut of the film, partially because I do like the happier ending (the look on Seymour's face as he watches the plant eat Audrey and tries to hold her hand just a moment longer is absolutely heartbreaking, I'm glad there's a version without that), partially because it allows as much as possible to be used, and partially because I think it could support his character arc in the movie As others have mentioned, his arc is different between the play and movie, in the play there's more of a sense of him being corrupted as the story progresses, even at the start, the line delivery makes it feel that plant convinces him more easily compared to the movie, and he takes a more active role in feeding the plant in the play; then when Audrey dies he's brought back to where he started and losing what he wanted most, and upon realising the plant's end goal, makes the decision to do what he should have done in the first place, even if it's ultimately too late to make a difference, redeeming himself in the process In the movie Seymour is much more naïve, and retains that innocence throughout the story, even during the deaths it feels more like he's simultaneously frightened by what's happening, but too frightened by what might happen if he refuses to do anything until the problem has become overwhelmingly big. The deleted "The Meek Shall Inherit" sequence from the movie focuses on his thought process and mirrors "Feed Me": first showing him being swept up in the positives of his situation before realising "Wait, it also means having to feed more people to the plant, am I really alright with this?", his guilt over Mr Mushnick's death shown through the portrait, the shot of him as a plant illustrating the realisation that if he goes along with this he'll be no better than the plant thriving off the destruction of others. The double meaning of the line "The meek are gonna get what's coming to them" for everyone who's familiar with the original ending, and what's usually meant to have rewarding connotations turns into a warning about what will happen if he keeps going and that he'll only have his own inaction to blame And then there's Audrey (Lovely Audrey), the possibility of losing her without the plant is what wilts his budding resolve, so already having that bookend with nearly losing Audrey TO the plant being the thing that pushes him to stand up and defeat it the plant. Using "Don't Feed The Plants" as another moment showing his thoughts builds on the previous one, this time with Seymour realising the scope of what's at stake, even if he's not quite where he needs to be, not being a puppet swept along by those with a stronger will than his anymore, but still running away and hoping for the best. Then the end fully wraps up his arc, coming into his own when it matter most (Also we get to see the impressive finale shine without the more depressing moments hanging over it)