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XANADU (1980) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING! Polls, early access and full reactions on Patreon / reelreviewswithjen Watch me watch this 1980 sci-fi movie Xanadu in this first time watching reaction video! Xanadu tells the story of a struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.
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The film was directed by Robert Greenwald and written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel. Xanadu stars Olivia Newton-John as Kira, Gene Kelly as Danny McGuire, James Sloyan
as Simpson, Michael Beck as Sonny Malone, Dimitra Arliss as Helen, Katie Hanley as Sandra, Fred McCarren as Richie and Renn Woods as Jo.
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@JonPaulMaki 2 года назад

The soundtrack was a much, much bigger success than the movie. It went double platinum in the US and Canada. One side featured songs performed by Olivia Newton-John (and some guests), and the other side featured the songs of ELO, with the title track being performed by Newton-John and ELO. The singles Magic and Xanadu hit number one in the US and the UK.

@michelleangel6948 2 года назад

I have the CD and I absolutely love it

@tomyoung9049 2 года назад

I dont care what anyone else says, I LOVE this movie. Have the movie and had the soundtrack but was on cassette and it broke :( She started to say her actual name she says "Ter,," so pretty sure she was Terpsichore, the muse of dance. Great music and just fun all the way thru.

@ThisLoveIsSweet 2 года назад

What did you think of her review? She flamed on every scene of one of your fave flicks.

@StardustandMadness 2 года назад

Me too! One of my favourites from ‘childhood’. I also don’t care what anyone thinks. My friend and I used to roller skate to the soundtrack on the slabs laid in new estates. Such good memories. You can buy the soundtrack on CD (which I did) or probably stream it at this point.

@victoriawhalley3662 2 года назад

Totally agree I loved this movie as a kid. I was mesmerised by Olivia Newton John. 👍

@StardustandMadness 2 года назад

@@ThisLoveIsSweet it’s hard to convey how much nostalgia this kind of corny movie has to a younger generation who have been brought up with the special effects of today. It’s ok that not everybody loves it.

@LunaErosStudios Год назад

@@ThisLoveIsSweet She never shuts the F up.

@ronfehr7899 2 года назад

The soundtrack for the movie was more popular than the movie itself.

@uncommon_niagara1581 2 года назад

The building was the Pan Pacific Auditorium which unfortunately was destroyed in an fire in 1989.

@IndyCrewInNYC 2 года назад

The soundtrack is amazing! I don't care what anyone says.

@jamesmoyner7499 2 года назад

I adore this film and not in a “So Bad it’s Good” or “It’s great 80’s cheese” no no no. I love the songs, the musical numbers, the out of nowhere Don Bluth animated sequence, Gene Kelly and the tribute to his career with his dance number. It’s such a great feel good film that doesn’t deserve the hate it has.

@captainKbobkeeshan Год назад

I'm with you!! I love it!

@philliplozano7587 2 года назад

Class of 85 here. Roller skating and roller dancing were still very much a thing in the early 80s. We used to go down to meet girls every weekend even though I was never any good at skating and would fall down a lot. Of course, the eighties is when skateboarding begin to take over as well. Also, you don't have to be so mean about my childhood.

@stephenulmer3781 2 года назад

I loved Olivia Newton John when i was a kid so of course i love this movie and the soundtrack. Very nostalgic for me 😁 Back in those days people didnt put labels on everything the way people do now. It was more free.

@andreadeamon6419 Год назад

And happier

@ernestsauter8093 2 года назад

Fun fact; The Rock side of the battle of the bands was represented by The Tubes, a San Francisco glam-rock outfit popular at the time.

@ThisLoveIsSweet 2 года назад

oh that's awesome. Thanks. My friends and I would say "Fee Waybill" when closing a conversation because he sang Talk to Ya Later. 😄

@godzillalover2 2 года назад

this was HUGE back in the 70s - 80s. My gang loved it and we all had to learn to skate. The album was huge on radio, and climbed up the charts. Who ever told you this was sifi was WAY off. they should have mentioned it was a musical

@ThisLoveIsSweet 2 года назад

Speaking of gangs, isn't this actor also in the Warriors?

@rojavida Год назад

It really wasn't huge in the 70's because it didn't release until 1980. just sayin'.

@nikkibee5608 2 года назад

Finally a reactor who focuses on the movies that matter.

@44excalibur 2 года назад

"This actor looks familiar as well, the one painting right now. Hmmm..." That actor is Michael Beck, Jen. He's mostly known for having starred as Swan in the Walter Hill street gang action film, The Warriors, from 1979.

@susanavenue1451 2 года назад

They actually made a Broadway musical based on the movie. It was basically the same story and music but very self aware. It was a lot of fun.

@BigGator5 2 года назад

This movie, amiright? 😂 Fun Fact: Gene Kelly and Dame Olivia Newton-John's dance number was shot after filming had finished. Kelly choreographed it. His conditions included a closed stage with only himself, Newton-John, a cameraman, a choreographer he had befriended and two others.

@McPh1741 2 года назад

Sonny is played by Michael Beck who was in the awesome cult classic "The Warriors" I highly recommend watching it. It's right up your alley. For me, Olivia Newton John never looked better than in music video for the song Xanadu. I wish women still wore their hair like that.

@roubador 2 года назад

Xanadu is the name of the palace built by Kubla Khan, the grandson of Chengis Khan in the poem "kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1816. It is basically described as paradise.

@Floury_Baker 2 года назад

Apparently Coleridge was stoned on opium and dreamt the concept. When he woke up he started writing and was interrupted by a knock at the door and lost the ending of the poem. Another use of the poem was a book back in the 80s called ‘Down to a Sunless Sea’, which was one of those apocalyptic stories (not a bad one if I remember).

@jayelgy383 2 года назад

Don Bluth had just left Disney and had set up his own studio. He wanted money to make the short "Banjo the Woodpile Cat" to impress backers so that he could animate "Secret of Nimh" so he hired his new studio out to do short animation pieces for films like "Nine To Five", "Xanadu" and a few others until he got enough cash to do "Banjo" which led to "SON"

@shainewhite2781 2 года назад

1:44, he was in THE WARRIORS a year earlier.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 года назад

Yes! That’s it!

@MysterD. 2 года назад

Fantastic movie! One of my favorites! But then, I was 12 when I watched it on the big screen in 1980. At its core, it's about pursuing your dreams, your passions in life and never letting the outside world diminish who you really are. This one goes far beyond mere entertainment. You have to be on the right wave length for it to mean anything more than mere late 70's/early 80's cheese.

@JMeG1a 2 года назад

Who said this was going to be Sci-Fi? Sorry you went into this with skewed expectations, but this might be the high-water mark for what I consider to be the "80s" genre: The colors, the music, the escapism and the wish fulfillment. Lots of young teens and tweens were all smiles when they left the theater in 1980.

@randomlibra 2 года назад

I think her reaction was skewed because of expectations of Sci-Fi. :(

@ericjanssen394 2 года назад

@@DV80s She's gone into a lot of movies (Rollerball and Soylent Green spring to mind) as MST3K Mean-Fangirl expecting decade-kitsch "cheese", and coming out with a good movie against her will. Mostly the 70's ones. Here, she was so going in with the "80's Disco"--actually a contradiction in terms--that she almost LITERALLY didn't give the movie time to make its own case in any scene before "What? The 80's-ness is making my brain hurt!"

@rickardroach9075 2 года назад

This film is as much sci-fi as _Lord of the Rings;_ it’s *fantasy!* 🤦‍♂️

@44excalibur 2 года назад

"I'm glad fashion has mostly changed since the 80s. There's a lot of things that are hurting my eyes." Aw, but that's why the 80s were so fun, Jen! 😆😜

@craigvancil4410 2 года назад

She is the muse Terpischore. Patron of lyric poetry and dancing.

@awall1701 2 года назад

Singin' in the rain, Brigadoon and Anchors Aweigh are just a few of my personal favourite Gene Kelly films.

@mikesilva3868 2 года назад

Love those movies 😊

@TL.BATMAN 2 года назад

Say what you will about this movie, it introduced me to the amazing music of Jeff Lynne and E.L.O.

@44excalibur 2 года назад

"And now they're suddenly at the beach?" "What? Suddenly these umbrellas just float down?" Well, the song is called "Suddenly," Jen. lol 😆

@catserver8577 2 года назад

ANd I think they were also in the art studio, where they had sets for photographing. It was supposed to be her making everything move because she is a muse, as well as the TV talking to him and the dictionary definition. Otherwise, how else would she show him the truth? LOL. Hi, I am a muse, the daughter of Zeus, and I came out of one of your paintings. (police are called, she's taken to the asylum, movie ends abruptly)

@1972Russianwolf 7 месяцев назад

@@catserver8577 He is shown setting the control booth in motion for the studio scene.

@johnanderson5558 2 года назад

Hilarious! Xanadu the movie is a mess, but the soundtrack was fantastic, and I played the cassette over and over until the batteries in my Walkman were completely drained. “I’M ALIVEEeeeeeee__________”

@LeviAckerman-cb5ji 2 года назад

This was a very tough movie to watch after seeing Michael Beck in The Warriors.

@TerryNationB7 2 года назад

When we went into the Xanadu club and saw all the people skating around it made me think of The Warriors even more. I kept looking out for the Punks gang.

@ThisLoveIsSweet 2 года назад

Can we pause briefly and acknowledge how awesome the Warriors is? I love that movie.

@adamsgrad93 Год назад

This movie came out when I was about 6, and I watched it a gazillion times. I am extremely fond of this movie and soundtrack. ELO is the best.

@oneironaut420 2 года назад

LOL "Who choreographed this? The Muppets? Honestly..." This movie is awful but I LOVE it. I had the Xanadu single on vinyl back in the day and I played it so much it wore down after several years!

@shainewhite2781 2 года назад

5:48* that's Gene Kelly. RIP, 1912-1987. This was his last film.

@shainewhite2781 2 года назад

1:25, it's ok. That's mans a legend. He was in the Oscar Winning An American In Paris, which won Best Picture. He was in Singing in the Rain, The Three Musketeers, and Anchors Aweigh.

@TerryNationB7 2 года назад

It was nice to see Gene Kelly on rollerskates again. He did an amazing dance sequence on skates in the movie It's Always Fair Weather (1955). A clip of the sequence even shows up in the movie Léon: The Professional (1994)

@kevinnelson66 6 месяцев назад

Roller skating was one of Gene Kelly's favorite activities besides dancing. Olivia Newton-John fell while filming one of her skating scenes and injured her tailbone. A stunt double was brought in to complete the rest of her roller skating scenes. I believe Michael Beck also had a stunt double on set who did most of his roller skating.

@randomlibra 2 года назад

OMG! Someone ACTUALLY reacted to this. I have been waiting my entire life for this moment :) J/K but I am super excited. I hope you love it. Going in...

@SaikoKujo 2 года назад

There is another reaction for Xanadu on RU-vid... it's done by a group. (of 4 people, I think) They roast it but they have A LOT of fun, too. (instead of just being bitchy like THIS video) I recommend it (cuz i love XANADU!)

@SaikoKujo 2 года назад

Just search XANADU DEEP DIVE

@thewall283 Год назад

I'm happy you got to watch this film. It's one of my favorite cheesy 80s films and the irony is the music from the film survived, but the film itself failed at the box office. Interestingly, it has gained a huge cult following and people now see that the movie was judged unfairly at the time and did not give it a chance. It's since become a hit on Broadway (which I got to see in 2008), so Xanadu lives on as long as new fans discover it.

@shainewhite2781 2 года назад

The film that won Worst Picture was The Village People in Can't Stop The Music.

@44excalibur 2 года назад

Yeah, the love theme playing during Kira and Sonny's rooftop skating scene is "Suddenly," a duet performed by Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard, written by John Ferrar. It reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart in October 1980 and number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1981. It was also a major Adult Contemporary hit, reaching number four. The music video shows them in a penthouse singing the song to each other taken from her ABC TV special "Hollywood Nights" that aired before the 52nd Academy Awards on April 14, 1980.

@deetorrance3659 Год назад

I was 9 when this came out. I absolutely love this movie. Yes it’s corny, but I love it. I skated everywhere back in the early 80’s.

@river4837 2 года назад

"Suddenly" one of the biggest duets of all time. Beautiful song sung by Olivia Newton John and Cliff Richards. Look up "Suddenly with Olivia Newton John -RAH- 14/10/2015 Cliffs Birthday". If I'm not mistaken their not lip syncing in this like many of the other videos that are out there. Two Amazing singers years later.

@dandanod 2 года назад

Gene Kelly, absolute Hollywood legend. 😎👍❤

@bubblesballoon1235 Год назад

This had a fantastic soundtrack with several top ten songs, including Magic which hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Electric Light Orchestra did a lot of the music, including the background music for the title song sung by Olivia Nrwton John. Jeff Lynne of ELO wrote a number of the songs. From what I understand, there were a number of rewrites while the movie was being made which effected the plot and continuity of the movie. All I have to say is it is worth watching just to see Gene Kelly (on roller skates yet) in his last movie, Olivia Newton John and ELO performing the music, 1980's fashion, loads of dancing. all in one film. In case you don't know much about Gene Kelly, he was one of the great dancers and innovators in dance. He starred in Singing in the Rain, An American in Paris, On the Town, Anchors Aweigh, Brigadoon, and many of the great musical movies of the Golden age of musicals in the movies. He danced with almost every major female dancer of the era. He and Fred Astaire were probably the greatest dancers of that period.

@misterprickly 2 года назад

I love Don Bluth's animations in this film. I reminds me a lot of the *Dragon's Lair* games and *Thumbelina.*

@cindybrown9898 Год назад

WE ROLLER SKATED TO ALL THESE SONGS GROWING UP

@catserver8577 2 года назад

This is going to be as long as this movie probably felt to you. Fair warning. I was a ten year old girl when this film came out. Someone took us to the theater to see it, and if you didn't see it, you were lame. This whole film was meant to be our generations "Wizard of Oz", but obviously it is not that. But what it did succeed in doing was transition the 70's hair, makeup, fashion and music and special effects to the 80's. People were resistant. I remember being resistant, my friends were resistant, my friends' parents were resistant, grandparents, etc.. But this movie to a kid was pretty darn magical. I think for my age group in particular it was effective in that it nudged us out of childhood a little, and it was one of the first movies where tiny cracks in my ability to suspend disbelief appeared (I had just learned about Santa the xmas before). Overnight, 80's aesthetic just exploded from the middle school and up. Everything was neon, geometric, rainbows, sparkly, feathery bigger hair, and yes, rollerskating. This was also when I realized that even though I had rollerskated since I was really little, I was not ever going to be as good as these people were. I still skated for a couple more years though. I also think this movie was for people who were turning 18, people turning 21, that group. For some reason over the last generations people have had an increasingly hard time adulting. This was a little push for those folks as well. And for the boomers, the scene with the rock band must have been a visual of how everything that was changing felt. Seeing this again as an older person who is very confused and baffled by current styles, trends and music, I know how they must have felt. In regards to the music, pretty much every song got airplay, and some of them were on the charts for years. And yes, Olivia Newton John did pretty much every music genre in her career. Country, pop, dance, show tunes, and whatever this movie's sound is (lol). Thanks for letting me revisit it through your eyes, it's not as bad as all that, Jen. Just have to know the era and the audience it was for. ;)

@ronfehr7899 2 года назад

It's amusing that you mentioned Singing in the Rain, because Gene Kelly was in that movie.

@josepha5885 2 года назад

My favorite Olivia Newton-John song is in this movie - Magic.

@laustcawz2089 2 года назад

Olivia Newton John had a career that lasted about a decade, from the country pop of the early-mid '70s, to the dance pop of the esrly-mid '80s. She had at least a dozen big hits. including 5 no. 1 hits in the U.S. & probably more internationally. "Xanadu" (the film & soundtrack) features her duets with Gene Kelly ("Whenever You're Away From Me"), Cliff Richard ("Suddenly"-'though Michael Beck plays the corresponding character in the film) & The Tubes ("Dancin'"). The movie "Xanadu" involves mythology. It has nothing to do with science. When Kira is about to say her real name, it's Terpsichore (terp-SIK-a-ree), the goddess of dance & chorus, one of the nine muses in Greek mythology, represented by the wall paintings that come to life. Big band & rock 'n' Roll coming together was a thing briefly in the '80s, presumably inspired by this movie. Was supposed to be "the next big thing", but never quite caught on. Two bands at the forefront of this were Carmel & Leslie Bell & The First Bang Band (it was going to be called "Bang Music").

@mrshadowbright4041 Год назад

Goddess of dancing and chorus which explains the singing Style

@joygernautm6641 2 года назад

There is still a huge thriving rollerskating community. Also a roller derby community

@jayelgy383 2 года назад

Not only was there music by ELO but The Tubes (With Fee Waybill and Prairie Prince) made an appearance during the Battle of The Bands "Dancin'"

@denanebergall5514 Год назад

Dancing with Gene Kelly had to be a highlight of Olivia Newton-John's life.

@marksullivan1883 Год назад

There's also another movie with Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta they tried to capitalize on their chemistry it's called two of a kind

@Pinkielover 2 года назад

I have memories of watching this ,At a family friends house sneaking in a girls sleepover .as they watched this on tv...lol I was probably seven ish i think I could've been nine.. I just remember all the girls and my sisters were watching it..And I remember watching from outside the room in the hallway As I was playing with the dogs.. The family friend was very very wealthy..We were at a mansion..I just remember a big hallway playing with dogs and stairs...lol And it being dark.. I really need to re-watch the movie Haven't watched it since then it was in the early 80's sometime... Another good movie is mannequin.. The only thing I really remember about the movie is rollerskating and disappearing and light show.. People still rollerskate/ rollerblade just not as often as they should...Kids today are pretty lazy.

@mikeminer1947 2 года назад

Not the biggest fan of musicals, but I eventually watched "Singin' in the Rain" just because it was #5 on the AFI's Top 100 films. I wasn't familiar with Gene Kelly at the time, but his talent in this movie is truly jaw-dropping. And the film itself actually holds up as a comedy today; surprisingly self-aware and sarcastic as it pokes fun at Hollywood. For anyone who's interested and might think a film this old may be boring or outdated, just give the first 10 minutes a shot! Really amazing filmmaking, even by today's standards.

@marielewis3716 Год назад

My favorite movie from childhood.

@Floury_Baker 2 года назад

The club was a real place: Pan Pacific Auditorium, in LA. Built 1935, burnt down 1989.

@rickardroach9075 2 года назад

27:58 One of those dancers (Matt Lattanzi) became Olivia’s first husband.

@kevinnelson66 6 месяцев назад

Chloe Lattanzi is the daughter of Matt Lattanzi and Olivia Newton-John. Olivia was pregnant with her during the filming of the Soul Kiss music video in 1985. Chloe and Olivia appeared as Australian robotics technicians in one of the later Sharknado films. Their characters gave Finn Shepard(Ian Ziering) a really hard time while they were modifying Finn's wife April's robotics. Olivia and Chloe had some really good comedic timing in their scene.

@StardustandMadness 2 года назад

Who told you this was a sci-fi? I don’t think there’s anything sci-fi about it. Magic, fantasy definitely. I love this movie, and it’s soundtrack. That scene you were asking about all the props, was set on a sound stage in the movie. Sonny was showing her around a movie lot. It’s very corny now, but it holds a lot of great memories. My friend and I both got shiny white roller skates for Christmas one year, and we used to skate around all the cement slabs in new housing estates, all day every day. I also didn’t realise until much later, but my ‘obsession’ with the Nine Muses started with this movie. Gene Kelly was an incredible singer and dancer, very classic, I highly recommend you watch Singing in the Rain, gorgeous movie from when he was younger.

@bobclarke1815 Год назад

She is Terpsichore one of the 9 daughters of Zeus. A muse sent to inspire mankind. She`s thousands of years old.

@kimwatchesstuff Год назад

Watching this days after ONJs death. As funny as you found it, it was good fun to watch someone react to it. One if my guilty pleasures from my childhood.

@1972Russianwolf 7 месяцев назад

The building did exist, It was Pan-Pacific Auditorium, originally built in 1935. It was mostly a wooden structure and burned in 1989.

@williamwilson7631 2 года назад

Although the movie did not do well, the soundtrack was a huge success and hit number 1 in many countries.

@vincentlyon7448 2 года назад

The voice of Zeus was Wilfrid Hyde-White, known to most of us as Dr Goodfellow in th 89s tv series Buck Rogers

@kevinnelson66 6 месяцев назад

Also as Sire Anton, one of the 12 council members in the original Battlestar Galactica series premiere "Saga Of A Star World". His son Alex was in Roger Corman's 1994 live action Fantastic Four movie along with one of Robert Culp's sons. I believe Alex played Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic and Culp's son played Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom. That film probably would have received a Raspberry award for worst film if it had been commercially released in theaters.

@shainewhite2781 2 года назад

2:02, the movie is inspired by the Musical Down To Earth 1947.

@bcsr4ever 2 года назад

And yes, Don Bluth did Thumbelina and the Animated sequence in this film - good catch. *****

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 года назад

Thank you! Yeah the style definitely looked familiar

@swarlock 6 месяцев назад

Xanadu is NOT a planet or a sci-fi movie. It's a romaantic musical comedy. I love this kind of stuff.

@kevinnelson66 6 месяцев назад

With a little fantasy thrown it.

@doctorteethomega 9 месяцев назад

22:55 I fell asleep once time with the tv on, a little kid in the 80's. I woke up with this scene playing. I loved it, but literally thought I must have been dreaming. Years later I found out it was real! 🥰

@derekroberts6654 Год назад

Olivia Newton John lead me here RIP😢

@aeneasfate 2 года назад

Michael Beck also starred in Megaforce with Barry Bostwick(Of Rocky Horror fame). It's basically Xanadu but with cheesy sci-fi vehicle explosion stuff in place of nightclub dancing. That may sound like they have nothing in common at all but it remains true. Megaforce is absolutely ridiculous.

@daytoncharitychicken 2 года назад

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH FOR THIS! 😂👏👏👏 I literally have tears from laughing through your reaction. I just watched an old documentary about how this movie came about and it was destined for a hilariously disaster result as so much was flung together on a whim under time pressures. It shouldn’t be a surprise that there were tons of drafts and the script was never truly finished as the movie went forward to production (original draft was written by a guy who knew someone who made those giant album cover paintings for a famous record store in Southern California). I love watching people watch this train wreck unfold (but I do love the music and some of the insane dance/skate choreography amuses me). And I loved your analogy of people testing out every tool in Photoshop... chef’s kiss. 🤣

@randysmith7045 2 года назад

i love this movie

@leperwolf7287 2 года назад

This movie came out at the between time with the apparent 'death' of disco and the rise of new wave and 80's punk. Sadly, this film really didn't get the audience they were hoping for until a few generations later who nostalgia for the 80's really kicked in.

@ericjanssen394 2 года назад

Despite the fact that, while there is A disco, between Olivia and ELO, there is no actual disco MUSIC in the movie. Again, thank "Can't Stop the Music" for that confusion, and the big symbolic "Death to Disco" dogpiling on both movies in summer '80.

@leperwolf7287 2 года назад

@@ericjanssen394 I agree, but I think it was more in the lines of the MTV era hadn't quite made it's mark yet (an audience who probably would have appreciated Xanadu more than likely) and people who didn't want to admit they liked a certain music type like they themselves would be burned in bonfire like the Disco records at a certain stadium. It was the timing of Xanadu's release that killed it and the audience assumption that it was disco.

@stephenulmer3781 2 года назад

True

@johnanderson5558 2 года назад

My favorite Jen observations: Who set dresses a desk with the pencil points up? Who gives their construction crew three martini glasses and a fruit basket for lunch? And finally, “This is abusing my eyes”

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 года назад

Haha thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the video!

@jessicaloveridge2759 20 дней назад

I love this movie (yes I know it is ridiculous). The music, the crazy huge musical numbers, and Gene Kelly make this movie just such a joy.

@csrhymer 2 года назад

If memory serves, ONJ's character was Euterpe - Greek muse of song writing

@ericjanssen394 2 года назад

Actually, her "My name is Terp--" was Terpsichore, the muse of dance. Which helps, if you're building a disco.

@ericjanssen394 2 года назад

And for those saying "What? I didn't know Gene Kelly could roller-skate!"...Umm, YEAH: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8hs6iXpInTA.html (And "Wait, why is he making faces? Why are we watching him remember this? Why did all the furniture disappear?"...Er, isn't it possible that some of your questions might be answered in due time, if you DIDN'T keep fishing for Bad Stuff wherever you could find it every two minutes or so? We can certainly...guess that you haven't seen Singin' in the Rain yet, or just about any vintage musical ever made.)

@rickardroach9075 2 года назад

I don’t think I could take it. “Why is it raining? Why is he singing in the rain? Why is he dancing and singing in the rain?” 🤦‍♂️

@ericjanssen394 2 года назад

@@rickardroach9075 My dad actually did that, the first time I showed that to him--He only knew the scene; I explained the silent-movie plot, and he asked "Why was he singing in the rain?" "Well, he just realized he was in love." "Yeah, but what did that have to do with the story?"

@MrMarcy76 7 месяцев назад

You were saying it all felt very 70s at times. This film came out in 1980, so it was still had a 70s feeling. 80s didn't really take hold until about 1982-83.

@jimtatro6550 2 года назад

This is the film that destroyed Michael Beck’s career, although Megaforce didn’t help.😂

@christopherkaylor2940 2 года назад

Megaforce an 80s movie starring Michael Beck (the Painter) about a motorized strike force, like live action MASK, played a lot on HBO back in the day

@Rifkinn 2 года назад

She got part of her name out. Terpsichore, in Greek religion, one of the nine Muses, patron of lyric poetry and dancing (in some versions, flute playing). She is perhaps the most widely known of the Muses, her name having entered general English as the adjective terpsichorean (“pertaining to dancing”).

@mikeking-lc3vl Месяц назад

ELO is FANTASTIC AT EVERYTHING.

@maceomaceo11 2 года назад

In my Xanadu Swan hurls his knife at Sonny, calls the Gramercy Griffs to finish it, and ends this atrocity before it starts. And saves Gene Kelly's good name in the process. That is a 'The Warriors' reference for where you've seen the male lead, I can't imagine where else you would recognize him from. Olivia Newton-John and ELO were the only ones left unscathed from this dumpster fire of a film (nobody noticed The Tubes so they ended up okay too).

@xanadude22 2 года назад

Lol i Loveeeeee Xanadu and Oliviaaaaaa!!!

@TimSmith-uc4pk 2 года назад

ELO is a great band and they have a lot of other hits. And Olivia was a little hottie back in the day.

@kevinnelson66 6 месяцев назад

With the voice of an angel.

@DavidBrown-yd9le 2 года назад

Watched this movie over and over on HBO

@philipabelanet5476 2 года назад

Nice catch on the Thumbelina connection, Jen. Don Bluth (director of Thumbelina) did the animation sequence.

@electronics-girl 2 года назад

I wanted to see Xanadu so badly when I was a kid. (Mostly based on the soundtrack, and the fact that it had Olivia Newton-John.) However, our local video rental store only had Xanadu on Betamax, and our VCR was VHS. So I never got to see it as a kid. I finally saw it 10-15 years ago, and I was a bit disappointed. (Although not nearly as disappointed as you.) Maybe roller discos (as a nightclub) were more of a 1970s thing, but roller rinks (as a "family fun" sort of thing) were still very much a thing in the 1980s. I remember going to them a number of times. Xanadu is a fantasy film, not science fiction. It is inspired by a poem about Xanadu, which was a place in China.

@44excalibur 2 года назад

Yes, Roller Disco was mostly popular in the 1970s, Jen, but Xanadu was filmed in 1979 and released in 1980, so there was a lot of overlap between the late-70s and early-80s.

@ThisLoveIsSweet 2 года назад

Yes, I never think of Xanadu as an '80s film. It's so seventies.

@44excalibur 2 года назад

@@ThisLoveIsSweet Well, it also does have early 80s elements too. lol The soundtrack was a huge 80s hit, especially the songs Magic and Suddenly.

@ThisLoveIsSweet 2 года назад

@@44excalibur maybe some of those early 80s punk outfits too. I've known of this movie forever, but really have only seen Jen's reaction. Never seen the movie.

@44excalibur 2 года назад

@@ThisLoveIsSweet Yep. The late 70s Disco scene was slowly transitioning to the early 80s New Wave scene, which was combining elements of both Punk and Disco synth music, hence the noticable overlap. I only ever saw this movie once, on cable back in the 1980s.

@ganjiblobflankis6581 2 года назад

So much effort went into making something so much bad. Pretty good summary of Xanadu in all. It is like a puppy that has made a complete mess and sits there grinning and wagging its tail when you walk in. You cannot hate it or even be angry at it. I am glad that creative freedom extended to this... project. I much prefer a spectacular and daring failure than a safe and boring success.

@DarthMohammedRules 2 года назад

I can't believe this movie gets so much hate. It's a fantasy movie, not sci-fi. It's really not that bad, and at the very least, it's just a really fun movie. The scene with the big band/rock band "co-lab" was freakin' AMAZING!! Admittedly, I do hate that solo song Olivia does right before the big finale scene at the Xanadu club. It's probably the worst song on the soundtrack, and it drags on FOREVER!! (Honestly, I usually skip it.) Sonny was played by Michael Beck, who was the main guy, Swan, in "The Warriors." One other thing, though, this movie is one of the most impressive, best-looking movies I've ever seen on blu-ray.

@lloydquincy4556 10 месяцев назад

Ha, ha, love it . The movie and your reaction.

@CofyjunkyPNW 2 года назад

The fact that you're 'raspberrying' the entire film is why it's been known as one of the biggest 'Razzie's' in filmdom. 😆🎥 I was 12 y/o when it was released, ensuring my love for the leg-warmer trend that preceded the U.S. gym/leotard trend. Roller-skating to music that WASN'T typical roller-rink organ music was the new 'Disco' type fad, and I truly enjoyed it. 😁 So 'Xanadu' will always be a guilty pleasure for me. I still love the ELO soundtrack. 🎶💖 As for the fun-poking in the beginning, those were the Nine Muses in Greek mythology. (Wiki: 'In modern figurative usage, a Muse may be a source of artistic inspiration.') If you pay attention to the lyrics of 'Magic' it's about Kira inspiring Sonny's art. ~Jenn-X ☕🎯

@kevinnelson66 6 месяцев назад

From my understanding, this was the film that inspired the annual Raspberry awards and first film to be awarded worst film of the year in 1981. Personally I've seen worse than this.

@johncampbell756 2 года назад

Choreographed by Kenny Ortega who later directed the High School Musical films. Inspired by an article about roller skating. The club was a real place. Part of the exterior still exists on Melrose Ave. The band in orange is The Tubes who ended up in the film as Kenny Ortega choreographed their live show. Gene Kelly's final film. The soundtrack was a hit. The DVD has interviews with many of the people behind the scenes about how bad it was, except for the dancers who loved being in it. The animated scene was made by Don Bluth in the middle of making The Secret of NIMH. This is a true guilty pleasure film. If you enjoy it, you definitely feel guilty. You also know that it isn't good. But the bluray is cheap. The lead actor was previously in the movie Warriors.

@SuperRowsdower 2 года назад

If anyone wants to watch another bad, sci-fi musical starring Olivia Newton John (and let`s face it, who wouldn`t) should check out "Toomorrow" from 1970. Very obscure and probably hard to find but worth watching if you can. It`s completely bonkers and all over the place story wise but great as far as bad sci-fi movies go.

@toughenup1 2 года назад

Yes, and "Toomorrow" is actually a true sci-fi musical... So, so very, very bad... Olivia always laughs about it in interviews.

@michelleangel6948 2 года назад

Haven't seen the reaction yet but I'm here for it! Gene Kelly is my favourite actor and I'm obsessed with him! I recently found out he was in one of the worst movie you should definitely watch "Viva Knievel" from 1977. Hope to see your reaction to this one in the future as well ❤️

@belyndareidda2276 Год назад

I was eight years old when I first saw this movie.

@ericjanssen394 2 года назад

Museheads Rule--But for the difficulty of musicals on YT, I have been waiting to see one of my favorite movies reacted to. Lemme guess, someone recommended this as a "bad" movie? Much of that legend is a mistake, caused by bad timing of the movie being released within a month of the Village People's legendarily horrible "Can't Stop the Music", and audiences confusing the two ever since. It didn't help that re-releases would often show both movies in a double-feature...Even the Razzie Awards was founded after the double-feature.

@chronomatt6990 Год назад

Don’t know who told you there was a SciFi element to the movie. It’s a fantasy romantic musical - no SciFi. As others have written, the soundtrack was huge with “Magic” and the title track going number one. The movie may have been a mess, but its makers and stars got the last laugh. It became a huge Tony nominated Broadway hit, and is still playing across the world through touring productions.

@PhillipHoskyn 2 года назад

Michael Beck was in a "Bad" movie roger corman produced called Battletruck or warlords of the 21st century someplaces. was filmed in NZ which at the time was popular with tax breaks for the studios.

@sydneymeanstreet 2 года назад

She’s watching Xanadu! (That’s for the other six Mull Historical Society fans out there).

@jean-paulaudette9246 2 года назад

Once I heard that the newspaper tycoon in "Citizen Kane" (1941) had a house named Xanadu, I guess I always assumed this was some musical version of that movie. Too bad I've never see either, for comparison purposes.