Since I'm already talking about horror movies, I thought I should do this one next. It is basically a movie about a man who repossesses people's organs and returns them to Geneco and while his daughter is dying of some blood disease set in the future... plus its a musical. I liked it... sort of. It would have been so much better had the songs been better written, articulated and thought of. I felt like the songs lacked any depth for a musical. Even a cheesy musical has songs that save the movie. I felt the songs brought down the movie for the lack of craft in them. Though I higly appreciated the choir singing "Repo!" throughout the film. It was a little Sweeney Todd meets the future and kids. The effects were fantastic. The black wig could have been nicer. The daughter had a great singing voice. There is an opera, but only Paul Sorvino and Sarah Brightman can actually sing in the operatic style. The movie store guys said if I liked weird music I would like this. I don't think it was weird. It had that sweet sing-song style of musical paired with rock music. Think Dracula Rock Musical in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Its along those lines of style as this film... minus puppets, but I'm sure you get the point. I was disappointed just because of the terrible lyrics. Its still worth watching for the horror movie effects, the camp relationship between father and daughter and the narrative of the Grave Robber/pimp/drug dealer.
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