History YMMV / LittleShopOfHorrors

!![[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors The musical]]

!![[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors The movie]]

** Twoey is definitely the bad guy of the piece, but exactly ''how'' bad he is can vary a lot depending on the actor or staging. A lot of actors lean into the gleefully sadistic side of the character, while others lean into the inhumanity, which raises the question of how fair it is to [[BlueAndOrangeMorality impose human morality]] on a sentient plant who is mostly concerned with its own survival. Basically, is Twoey immoral or amoral?

** While already hilarious in 1982, the line in "Somewhere that's Green" about a "Big, enormous, 12-inch screen" just gets funnier and funnier as time goes on.

** Seymour Krelbourn. Is his letting Orin suffocate from laughing gas revenge, or is it due to him being in shock? Is him letting Mushnik being eaten by the plant because Seymour forced him to walk into the plant, or was Mushnik's backing up into the plant's mouth an action on his own accord? The movie actually encourages this, as unlike the musical Seymour is never shown actually ''enjoying'' his new-found success built on the bodies of Audrey II's victims, and the film cuts out the "Now (It's Just the Gas)" number, where originally Seymour openly acknowledges that he can do nothing and let Orin die. This is likely a big reason why the ending had to be changed.

** While Audrey II looks phenomenal, when he eats Mushnik you can quite clearly hear the sound of his shoes colliding with plastic or rubber.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The word "horrors" in the title should give you as clue. In spite this being a musical directed by the Muppets' Frank Oz and songs written by Disney stalwarts Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, it's a PG-13 dark comedy the involves a man-eating plant, a sadistic and abusive dentist, and a whole song about abject poverty. The Director's Cut, where everyone dies, is even less appropriate for kids.

** Robinson's understudy in puppeteering Audrey II was Anthony Asbury, who would later go on to work on such productions as ''[[Film/{{Labyrinth}} Labyrinth]]'', ''Series/SpittingImage'', ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'', and ''Series/BetweenTheLions''.
* RealismInducedHorror: Amidst the fantastical horror of a man-eating plant, one of the most effective scares is Orin's casual, callous abuse towards Audrey and her inability to escape the toxic relationship.