Hedwig and the Angry Inch | | Cast : | John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor | | Director : | John Cameron Mitchell | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 01, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | December 11, 2001 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 27, 2005 | | Summary | Hedwig Rocks! | Content
 | A very good movie from an even better stage show. Challenges all your hetero perceptions of what gender is, and what's attractive. Hedwig is not initially painted as a very likable character, although you might sympathize with her circumstances. But by the end, you grow to like and admire her, and even cheer for her courage. And oddly enough, she becomes a more attractive woman as the movie progresses. Interesting, stylish direction from star/writer John Cameron Mitchell and brilliant 80s era songs from Stephen Trask, which echo Bowie and Iggy closely. This one bears repeated viewings, as the many depths and convolutions in the story and lyrics emerge slowly.
WARNING: DO NOT watch with 5-channel sound. The mix is totally botched. The band sounds like they're in another room. Stick with the original stereo mix. It rocks. And make sure to watch the documentary on the making of the play and the movie. You'll learn a lot about what's beneath the story. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 15, 2005 | | Summary | I loved Hansel as a boy | Content
| Just saw the movie last night and I was blown away. The story, the music, all of it. And I absolutely loved the dance number Hansel does on the bed!!! How did that kid move his legs like that?! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 23, 2005 | | Summary | Definitely a Riot | Content
| Wow! I borrowed it from the library yesterday. I watched it the night before and I watched it the morning before I went to school. It was awesome. And the lines were well thought out. Like when Tommy (Speck) Gnosis asked Hedwig if he accepts Jesus Christ as his personal lord and savior. And then Tommy goes on this mini-monologue about the Genesis Tree and the apple. That was pretty intense. This movie is definitely a must have for every DVD collection. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 18, 2005 | | Summary | Lift up your hands... | Content
| The first time I watched this movie I bloody loved it, the music was grand, and the costumes were crazy as hell. I laughed my hed off while almost balling my eyes out.
A story of wanting to find a place to be and function in as well as trying to fing your other half, hellova thing to try to take on all at once.
Letting go of what you loved but could never have, letting go of the one that loved you so she could live her life.
Now I go to my friends house and do a double header of Rocky horror and Hedwig to sing along to.
Loved it to bits, such an exquisite corpse... |
| Rating | | | Date | May 09, 2005 | | Summary | Beautiful, complex and hard rocking | Content
| A brilliant story about love, the struggle for recognition as an artist, rock and roll and isolation.
It's also about a transsexual but that is almost incidental.
The music borrows from punk and glam rock but is completely original and hard driving and is accompanied by equally hard driving images and animation.
For those of you who have not see the movie I don't want to give too much away.
Hedwig Robinson heads a band called the Angry Inch. She/he was born as Hansel in drab East Germany and leaves thanks to his/her marriage to an American army officer and a sex change operation. In America she meets a young man named Tommy who she falls in love with. She grooms him as a rock star. But when Tommy learns of Hedwig's anatomical anomaly he leaves her, steals the songs she wrote and becomes a superstar. Through the movie Hedwig stalks Tommy as she and her band playing in a third rate dives of the "Bildgewater" chain in every city Tommy is playing to sold out crowds in stadiums.
In between the rock and roll is a lot of philosophy. Sadness and humor are played side by side.
As far as the humorous side of this movie sometimes it is sidesplittingly funny.
Hedwig's self deprecating lines are brilliant.
The movie is both outrageous and sympathetic to the human condition (not just for transsexuals).
This is a tour de force by John Cameron Mitchell wrote directed and stars in the lead role.
This is not just a cult movie! As far as I am concerned it blows the socks off of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
A really treat to the eyes, ears and mind.
Truly a d*mn joy!
You will want to own this movie. |
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