Thank God It's Friday
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Movie Reviews of Thank God It's Friday
Movie Review: Back 2 Disco!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is way too fun and totally brings back memories of the days when disco was all the rage! It DVD to watch while you're getting ready to go out on a Friday night!Movie Review: Thank God It's On DVD!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Shame this is Region One ONLY (Donna's fanbase is WORLDWIDE!!!!!)
But nevertheless, plays in my DVD drive of my PC and great to have this film on DVD!
Movie Review: Thank god for DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Yeah,Yeah,Yeah! FINALLY the best movie starring Terri Nunn from music group "BERLIN", that i've ever seen.....YeahMovie Review: Hey, Put A Smile On Your Face...
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm giving THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY a generous 4-stars because it's on dvd. But the production value of the dvd is worth 2-stars (maybe even 1-star). And after such a long wait, you'd think there would've been more on this dvd than just the movie.
And the movie is the only thing you'll get on the TGIF dvd. No special features and NO SCENE SELECTION. All you can do is play the movie from the cheesy menu and that's it. How sad that is. And where did they get the ridiculous picture for the cover?
I know that this movie was not the commercial hit that Casablanca and Motown (record companies) were expecting, but for this release the dvd could've given fans a little more.
TGIF is a campy film about a Hollywood nightclub called the "Zoo" and takes place during the height of the disco craze in the mid-to-late 70s. The plot involves the transformation of the lives of several different people and their search for something magical, which all takes place one eventful night at the Zoo. Anyway, where SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER was a dramatic movie/story that happened to ride on the music wave of disco, TGIF was light and humorous and driven soley by the music.
At the time, TGIF was being marketed as the "Donna Summer movie" to try and captilize on Summer's meteoric rise as a singer...well sort of. The movie was produced by Casablanca (Summer's record label) and Motown (both record companies wanting to follow the success of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER), because they felt they couldn't miss with a movie featuring their respective artists, since they dominated the music scene during that decade. But Summer, though gaining traction as a charting artist, was yet to become the "disco queen." Her popularity exploded, coincidentally, around the same time when she had her first number one hit "MacArthur Park." So Casablanca and Motown marketed the movie as a Donna Summer film, even though it really wasn't. And you couldn't turn on a radio, during that time, without hearing the song "Last Dance" and the title song "Thank God It's Friday" (by Love and Kisses). However, Summer is only featured in a small supporting role and her on-screen time in the movie is less than 17-minutes (according to one biography), maybe even shorter than that.
But in those fleeting minutes, Summer is mesmerizing as the doe-eyed, unknown singer desperately trying to get the Zoo d.j. to play her record. She's hilarious in one scene where she starts singing badly along to "Love-to-Love You" while it's playing in the club, and she finally gets her big break on the "live" radio show from the disco that is supposed to showcase the Commodores. Summer really shined in that scene as she belted out "Last Dance" and became the perfect combination of beauty, talent, and energy; it's probably the most memorable moment in this movie. Of course there's also the performance of the Commodores, but Summer's eclipses it.
TGIF is not the best movie of all time, but there are moments of magic in it that sort of defined that era.
Movie Review: Disco DOESN'T Suck. . .
Summary: 4 Stars
. . .and neither does this movie. Released in 1978 at the height of the disco era, "Thank God It's Friday" may seem like any other cheesy B-grade movie, but it's not. It has two of the things I like most: music and comedy. The movie is set at a disco on a Friday night. Like a typical episode of "The Love Boat," there are a variety of characters and plots. There are the teenage girls who attempt to get into the club in order to win the midnight dance contest; the man who has just lost his job but doesn't care because all he wants to do is dance, dance, dance; the wife who convinces her stuffy accountant husband to give disco dancing a try; a couple of friends where one of them is looking for love (and coincidentally, a young man is looking for the same thing); a man who's in a mad dash to get some instruments to the club in time for the dance contest but gets pulled over twice for speeding; the tall, handsome club owner who's a hit with the ladies (and intends to score with the aforementioned wife of the accountant husband); and a dental assistant who seems to be out to lunch. Then there's Nicole (played by Donna Summer), an aspiring singer who just wants to be given a shot but has a hard time convincing the club's DJ to give her one.
There is no shortage of music in this movie. We get many disco songs, including some from The Commodores (who star as themselves) and from Ms. Summer herself. Her song "Last Dance" won an Oscar for Best Song and went to no. 3 on the Billboard chart.
So does this movie have a happy ending? It does for several of the characters: the teen girls win the dance contest; one of the female friends finally finds her Mr. Right; and Nicole finally gets her break (and the DJ as well).
"Thank God It's Friday" is not exactly Oscar material (save for the Best Song Oscar), but it's a fun movie where you can laugh, dance, and enjoy some music. So. . .have fun!
Extra: Look out for this when you watch the movie. It was produced by Columbia Pictures, so at the beginning when they show the Columbia Pictures woman with the torch, you will see her dance around for a while before getting back into place. It was a movie about disco; hence, the little dance.