Village People - Can't Stop the Music
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Movie Reviews of Village People - Can't Stop the Music
Movie Review: UNBEARABLY SILLY, CAMPY TRASH
Summary: 3 Stars
I was so thrilled to see this on DVD that I bought it the week it came out. (Insert 'of the closet' joke here.) I think that, with the exception of Steve Guttenberg and Valerie Perrine, "Can't Stop The Music" pretty much ended the careers of all involved. The Village People were effectively derailed by this movie, Bruce Jenner was never given another acting role, Alan Carr gave up on musicals (unless you count "Grease 2"), and Nancy Walker folded up her Director Chair for keeps. What you DO get is some hilarious homo-erotic dance numbers and one good concert sequence with the Village People and The Richie Family.Otherwise, you're forced to endure acting that seems to be given one direction (SMILE AND LOOK GIDDY!), dialog filtered through corn syrup, editing by blowtorch, and Jenner in cut-offs with a half shirt. "Can't Stop The Music" was everything about big budget 70's musicals gone completely over the hay-wire top; a train wreck of a culture clash worthy of a five feathered golden turkey.
"Can't Stop The Music's" extras include a pretty good photo gallery and notations. A must for collectors of B-Grade films and for seventies nostalgists.
Movie Review: -*- ... and Proud of It!
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is horrible. Really really horrible. One big, fat star here. BUT, it is a wild trip to watch. Everything is so bad throughout that it defies description. In other words: ONE HELL OF A LOT OF FUN!Movie Review: AN UTTER EMBARRASSMENT.....
Summary: 1 Stars
The music came screeching to a halt with this turkey. An all out train wreck of a movie meant to capitalize on the very brief popularity of the Village People, the music's not the only thing that stopped. This travesty killed the careers of practically everyone involved in it. Directed by of all people Nancy Walker, it's about efforts to bring the Village People to fame in the name of a struggling record producer played none-too-convincingly by Steve Guttenberg. The normally reliable and luscious Valerie Perrine is wasted as Guttenbergs' girlfriend. Lots of familiar faces including a very confused Bruce Jenner are sprinkled throughout to no avail. This movie is just unbelievably bad. Bad disco and bad acting may make this a camp classic in some circles. Some may even find it so bad it's funny. But I wouldn't sit through it again for anything. So if you must, view at your own risk. But don't say you weren't warned.Movie Review: So mind-shatteringly bad it's good
Summary: 5 Stars
Along with "Xanadu," this is a must-have Generation X cult classic. I laughed until my stomach hurt. You don't have to be gay to enjoy it, but it helps, as there are a lot of nudge-wink references to gay culture amid the blatantly half-hearted attempts to "straighten up" the story. (The handkerchief scene is priceless, as is Glenn "Leatherman" Hughes' audition scene.) Without this arguably unintentional send-up of movie musicals, there could not have been Aphex Twin's Busby-Berkeley-meets-Dr.-Dre-and-drops-acid "Windowlicker" video. All I can do is shake my head at this nasty little gem. It rips holes in space and time. I love it!Movie Review: Bring Back Da Disco!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The only reason to see this movie is because: 1. Nancy Walker directed it. She was a fag hag, and I mean that in the positive way. 2. Allan Carr produced it. Despite the mindless script, he knew exactly what his bros in the community wanted to see: A Gay Musical Made For A Gay Audience. Unfortunately, Hollywood wouldn't allow him to make the kind of gay movie he wanted, so we got this instead. At least he got away with a whole lotta stuff for 1980. Too bad he only made a few musicals with gay men... can you say GREASE? 3. There were some members of the Village People who were/are gay- at least acknowledge the fact that perhaps for the first time in history openly gay men had leads in their own life-story movie.... unfortunately, they had to have girlfriends in the script and not "girlfriends". 4. You know you luved their music and so you get lots of it with this movie and soundtrack. 5. I can't say anything good about the co-stars: Perrine, Jenner, etc., so I will just say that had Guttenberg used this opportunity to come out he wouldn't have had to resort to giving us such movies as Police Academy, Three Men And A Baby, etc., and could've been giving us his versions of In & Out, The Next Best Thing. Oh well, such is Hollywood....