<P> The film's critical reception was largely favorable, with modern review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a "Tomatometer" score of 91% . Variety wrote, "The acting is pleasantly preposterous . (...) Horticulturalists and vegetarians will love it ." </P> <P> Jack Nicholson, recounting the reaction to a screening of the film, states that the audience "laughed so hard I could barely hear the dialogue . I didn't quite register it right . It was as if I had forgotten it was a comedy since the shoot . I got all embarrassed because I'd never really had such a positive response before ." </P> <P> The film's popularity slowly grew with local television broadcasts throughout the 1960s and 1970s . </P> <P> Interest in the film was rekindled when a stage musical called Little Shop of Horrors was produced in 1982 . It was based on the original film and was itself adapted to cinema as Little Shop of Horrors, in 1986 . A short - lived animated television series inspired by the musical film, Little Shop, premiered in 1991 . </P>

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