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Originally posted by filmmaker2
I don't think Xanadu is a horrible movie at all! It's a musical--musicals are often kind of shallow and glitzy with a head-in-the-clouds mentality. It's all about the singing and the dancing.
What I think sets this one apart is that it features Gene Kelly, and there is that past-meets-present theme going on. Brightly colored early punk rock costumes and bondage imagery, clashing (or is it harmonizing?) with Big Band style. It's not just a little weird--it's REEEEEEAAAAALLLY WEIRD. It's probably the strangest movie to come out of the early 80's, I figure.
(Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quinones from the "Breakin'" films is one of the featured dancers, and that too is a plus.)
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i have this film just because the Tubes are in it (the band that merged with Gene Kelly)
other than that - i do think it's pretty bad.
Filmmaker .. you'll think this is interesting .. my copy is on the laserdisc label that made the 1st lasers ... damned if i can think of it .. i have about 60 titles .. most have laserrot but thay're still highly collectable..