A complete travesty in terms of classical music - vulgar, surreal, obsessed with penises and with its combination of intelligence and lack of good taste, the better because of it.

A crazy mess to be marveled at or despised, whatever one's tastes. Decadence does nothing for me, and this is certainly not a straight biopic, so it comes down to the humour - which is slightly amusing, occasionally, but mostly too silly.

Vulgar in so many ways, this highly entertaining satire is one of the more original biopics.

Hysterical 70s rock-musical in the vein of Rocky Horror, but a much better watch; which may be attributed to the extremely decadent feel, the colourful design or the fact that Ken Russell actually knows how to make movies.. Or - more likely - it's because it has Franz Liszt turned Franciscan exorcist battling Richard Wagner turned Vampire-Hitler-Frakenstein. Deliciously absurd!

Outrageous. Absolutely mad, but never more so than to - when it has gone far enough - hint at some undercurrent of symbolic sanity. If you don't mind getting your conventions of history, music and film raped, 'Lisztomania' will have you fully engrossed, thoroughly entertained and completely confuzzled throughout. What else to say about a movie where one of the lesser strange features is Ringo Starr playing the pope?

Lisztomania review in Haiku format: Dammit Ken Russell! Can you try "under" the top? And why the penis?

If you'd describe some of the most outrageous moments of the film, it sounds like something fun. Nazi vampire Wagner! Flamethrower piano! Oversized penis guillotine! But overall, this extravagant musical never grabbed me. It's over the top style was tiring, the music never felt memorable and the contents were juvenile and too silly for me.

There's Daltrey sprouting a ginormous penis, a superhuman that looks uncannily like Thor from the Avengers, there's Wagner who is, for some reason, a vampire, there's Wagner in a Hitler/Frankeinstein's monster incarnation walking around with an Flying-V/AK-47 shooting down orthodox jews and loads more. It's... uhm... different. Cinema seldomly gets any more playful than this, and for that quality (as well as all the weird shit I listed above) this movie is a treasure.