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[T. Zee] is a chaotic, intermittently amusing production that exploits the styles and myths of Hollywood culture as gratuitously as its predecessor, The Rocky Horror Show, but critically lacks that work's definition and occasionally astute satire.
Briefly, T. Zee is a simple morality tale that dramatises the inevitable and eternal conflict between good and evil. O'Brien tarts up this novel theme by setting the action in a neon underworld into which Los Angeles has crashed after an apocalyptic earthquake….
O'Brien's scenario is so confused and lacking in substantial humour that one is plunged after the opening scenes into complete and utter tedium….
It is disappointing that O'Brien has so closely adhered to the successful format of The Rocky Horror Show—apart from a few deviancies the plots are identical in structure—with its infatuation with B-movie Americana and stylised decadence, and refused, apparently, to apply his undoubted talents...
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