Little Shop of Horrors analysis

Genre and Satire:

1. What is Satire? The use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose or critique peoples stupidity or vices.
2. In what ways does 'Little shop of horrors' satirize Science Fiction? By making horror more family friendly, and almost playful. They made it so that it wasn't exactly scary, and more focused on the musical side.
3. In what ways does 'Little shop of horrors' satirize  conventional musical comedies? I feel like they purposely made the characters kind of ditsy, and a little bit stupid, to mock the stupid and "funny" actions of a lot of characters in musicals.  
4. In what ways does 'Little shop of horrors' satirize Faust? Seymour keeps this plant even though it drinks all his blood, just because it's bringing good business into the store. Much like how in the Legend of Faust Dr. Faustus makes a deal with the devil to bring him good things, even if it means he will only live to 24 years old. 
5. In what ways does 'Little shop of horrors' satirize 'B' movies? A 'b' movie is a low budget movie. I can't really see any ways that this musical satirizes 'b' movies. 

Monsters:

1. Describe the monster. The monster started as a little green plant, kind of like a Venus fly trap, but them Seymour started feeding it his blood and turned into this giant man eating plant. 
2. Who is the monster in 'Little shop of horrors' ? The monster is primarily the plant, because he is trying to take over the world, but you can also say the Dentist could be the monster, since he's a really mean person who abuses his patients and his girlfriend. 
3. Is there more than one monster? Yes, the plant and the dentist. 
4. What's the difference between a good monster and a bad monster? A monster isn't necessarily a bad person, because anyone that is different may well be called a monster some time in their life. A good monster probably wouldn't hurt anyone but a bad one would.

 Critical analysis:

I personally don't like musicals but I didn't hate this one. I thought the characters were a bit too ecstatic, but I do realize that they may just be because this movie was made in the 80's. I also think this movie wasn't at all scary, and that it was almost like a kids movie. But I do think the songs fit in well to the script, and the lead women had a really good singing voice. for the most part the dialogue was interesting, although there were some dry places. The costumes fit in really well for the time it was set, and the actors did a good job trying to make themselves a bit more ditsy. I think that even if you don't think you'll like it it's still worth seeing just to get your own opinion.