Little Shop of Horrors is one of my favorite films. It combines all of my loves: lavish sets, the puppetry of Frank Oz, Rick Moranis, sexually menacing dentists, songs about killing for personal gain, and Danny John-Jules.

If you haven’t seen it, the film is basically a Faust story except the devil is a giant, man-eating plant from space who tempts Seymour, a lowly flower shop clerk, into feeding it people by promising to help him win over his beloved Audrey. On its face, it isn’t a completely terrible idea for a cartoon. It’s already a musical, it has a fairly goofy tone, and talking plants were a mainstay of Saturday morning cartoons. Just ixnay the dismemberment and dental sadomasochism, and it’s solidly in the kid-friendly and well-known quadrant — as long as we’re talking theatrical ending, not the original.

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