Xanadu - Region 1 DVD

Comedy (Contemporary) (123 items)
list by Classic_MovieGuy

Olivia is possibly the most unconvincing greek goddess ever and there's about a million lines I can't use after that. She is very pretty and goddess looking though. The idea of a nightclub restaurant roller disco was a good one. I wish I had thought of it. Planet Hollwood had nice hamburgers but they where like 12 dollars. The chips where nice and the toilets where trippy but it went broke. So did... read more

Description: A wimpy remake of an already anemic movie (the 1947 Rita Hayworth vehicle Down to Earth), this glitzy musical from 1980 improbably stars Olivia Newton-John as a heavenly muse sent here to help open a roller-derby disco. Gene Kelly is mixed up in this well-meaning but goofy effort to fuse nostalgia with late-'70s glitter-ball trendiness, and he looks just plain silly. Directed by Robert Greenwald, the film doesn't even work as decent kitsch. --Tom Keogh A wimpy remake of an already anemic movie (the 1947 Rita Hayworth vehicle Down to Earth), this glitzy musical from 1980 improbably stars Olivia Newton-John as a heavenly muse sent here to help open a roller-derby disco. Gene Kelly is mixed up in this well-meaning but goofy effort to fuse nostalgia with late-'70s glitter-ball trendiness, and he looks just plain silly. Directed by Robert Greenwald, the film doesn't even work as decent kitsch. --Tom Keogh ... (more) (less)