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Xanadu
Directed by
Robert Greenwald
1980
1h 36m
PG
Musical
,
Fantasy
,
Romance
,
and more
5.3
30%
58%
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A struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.
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Cast of Xanadu
Olivia Newton-John
Kira
Gene Kelly
Danny McGuire
Michael Beck
Sonny Malone
James Sloyan
Simpson
Katie Hanley
Sandra
Fred McCarren
Richie
Ren Woods
Jo
Dimitra Arliss
Helen
Sandahl Bergman
Muse 1
Lynn Latham
Muse 2
Melinda Phelps
Muse 3
Cherise Bates
Muse 4
Juliette Marshall
Muse 5
Marilyn Tokuda
Muse 6
Yvette Van Voorhees
Muse 7
Teri Beckerman
Muse 8
Marty Davis
Male Guard
Bebe Drake
Female Guard
Matt Lattanzi
Young Danny McGuire / Xanadu Dancer
Michael Cotten
The Tubes
Bill Spooner
The Tubes
Cynthia Windham
Dancer
Xanadu Reviews
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Conventional wisdom decrees that Xanadu is a horrible film. In a sense, conventional wisdom may be correct, but it ignores one key ingredient: viewed in the right frame of mind, this movie can be a lot of fun.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Xanadu is a mushy and limp musical fantasy, so insubstantial it keeps evaporating before our eyes.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
Though meant to be a throwback to old-style Hollywood musicals, XANADU merely replaces style and substance with flash and glitz...
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
While the movie is every bit as garish and overly shellacked as the other bomb musicals of its era, at least this one looks like irresponsible amounts of money were thrown around.
Washington Post
Tom Shales
"Xanadu" cannot possibly be described as a good movie, but it can be recommended to those who can tolerate large amounts of intravenous marzipan.
Boston Globe
Jeff McLaughlin
The acting is wooden, the direction and cinematography confused, the special effects largely out of place, the dramatic interest nonexistent.
Variety
Variety Staff
Stupendously bad.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
This big-budget bubble-gum musical is appalling but compulsively watchable.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Xanadu doesn't lend itself to quick or easy characterization. Too many different things are going on here, and they don't have much to do with one another.
People Magazine
People Staff
Olivia Newton-John's encore-after Grease-is an awkward musical fantasy that dooms the Australian songbird to play a muse, one of Zeus' nine daughters.
Gannett News Service
Bernard Drew
It strives mightily to achieve magic, but for all its sunbeams, mirages and tricky dissolves, it remains humorless and earthbound.
The Film Experience
Nathaniel Rogers
Kooky abandon and unembarassed chutzpah make it a movie nobody dared to love
Film Threat
Phil Hall
Yeah, there are musicals with more panache and brainpower. You can keep 'em! For me, I want to see Olivia Newton-John spinning about on roller skates.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
Here's another musical mishap that landed on Creative Loafing's list of The 10 Worst Rock Films Ever Made, taking the #3 slot just under Staying Alive and the champ, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
Look at Xanadu with an eye toward storytelling superiority and your head will explode. To appreciate the madness within, one must take in the blinding neon sights with an open heart and at least one nostril-coating line of cocaine.
Sin Magazine
Austin Kennedy
Yup. This movie is stupid.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Rick Chatenever
Looks more like a nouveau record album cover come to life.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Steve Crum
Semi-Gloss Newton-John, Gene Kelly fantasy musical is dated, but kind of fun.
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