For when you listen to REPO! apart from the futuristic Goth eye candy, you’ll have an entertaining time trying to figure out just where composer / lyricists Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich are going with this anything-goes insanity.īut damn if more than half of REPO!’s style-splatter is pretty cool, especially since actors like SPY KIDS’ now-saucy Alex Vega and BUFFY’s Anthony Stewart Head can actually sing (even Paris Hilton doesn’t offend).
To be sure, REPO!’s soundtrack is best experienced as part of the movie, but that doesn’t mean its album isn’t worth picking up for those temporarily denied its visual impact because of the film’s unjust dumping on a few screens this weekend. For as a soundtrack and film, this GENETIC OPERA is far more interesting to look at and listen to than anything in SWEENEY TODD. While the songs of REPO! might not be as highfalutin’ as SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, there’s no denying the upstart energy of them. But then again, in a multiplex where Tim Burton can paint with oceans of blood to the strains of Stephen Sondheim, the weirdness of REPO! almost seems kind of normal. In this mash-up of every musical from PHANTOM OF THE OPERA to SWEENEY TODD and THREE PENNY OPERA (with elements of CRY BABY probably thrown in there as well), a gonzo cast of TV, Broadway, slasher film stars and pop culture trainwrecks sing about their drug-addicted DNA in between ripping out body parts and engaging in generally nasty behavior. While film’s zanier “rock operas” have ranged from the antics of Transylvanian reprobates in THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW to THE APPLE’s wannabe glitter singers, it’s doubtful any of them are as bizarrely transgressive as REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA’s. Composer: Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich
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