Post by Toasted Cheese on May 26, 2019 1:01:41 GMT
Those are two of my favorite musicals. I don't generally like musicals, but these two dillies have camp value, which can make them fun to watch if you are in the right mood. Also, dum-dum as it is, "Xanadu" does offer the BEST soundtrack of any musical I have ever heard. ELO is untouchable. So, I think that if people are going to criticize a movie like "Xanadu", they need to acknowledge the greatness of the soundtrack. It is a musical after all.
You know, I have never seen You Can't Stop The Music. The badness of it just reeked from the advertising, but I think it would be fun for the camp value and the music would be catchy. I re-watched Xanadu recently, in fact I have watched it twice in the past 18months. It has its own endearing charm and even the badness of it radiates something special. It is just a nice warm and fuzzy experience. The quality of the soundtrack cannot be denied, and I just see it as a 90min MTV special. If they had cast a stronger lead, with more charisma than the bland and plain looking gawk Michael Beck, I think Xanadu would have gotten more accolades. They spent a lot of money on this and ONJ is worth seeing in her prime. She is just lovely personified.