Xanadu

Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, et al.

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• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 025195028059
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Publisher: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
• Director: Robert Greenwald
• Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, Teri Beckerman, Sandahl Bergman, Coral Browne, Katie Hanley, Lynn Latham, Matt Lattanzi, The Tubes
• Number of Disks: 2
• Other Video Info: ac-3
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Contrived

Sonny is an album painter who just can’t get inspired. Enter Kira's (Olivia Newton-John) muse one each. She inspires Sonny just as 40 years earlier she inspired Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly). So, Sunny and Danny go off to build Xanadu. There Olivia gets to sing what she does best with the slow, light-voiced songs like Magic and Xanadu. They get mixed in with quasi-80s stomps and a dash of big band hoopla. This was a vehicle for Olivia in her heyday, allowing her to try a sound sampler from different genres. They were lucky to get Gene Kelly, as he was the only thing to make the film tolerable. Too bad they could not find someone real to play Sonny instead of Michael Beck, who played a Highway thug in “The Hard Ride” (1971). The film has lost a great deal of its pizzazz over the years, and the muse has failed to amuse future generations. You may want to see the original instead: “Down to Earth” (1947) with Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks.