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Can't Stop the Music: Musical Hell Review #22
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
- Original Air Date: January 5, 2014
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I didn't know Caitlyn Jenner used to act.
I'm glad she stopped.
She also showed up in an episode of Murder, She Wrote.
Nichol D oh yes & thankfully a forgettable appearance IMO
@@LucyLioness100 Right!
Not to mention a killer set of "hairy" abs
*he
The "almost didn't have their costumes" thing gave me an idea - what if instead of the members showing up with fully-formed styles (which don't fit into the narrative), the group starts out struggling to find an image, and before their first show their costumes don't get delivered and they have to make do with the stranger items left behind, creating their personas and integrating their eclectic styles into the narrative?
Anything would be better than what they settled on.
Too bad you weren't the fashion designer or scenarist of this movie!
Fun fact: When they were filming the ending scene of the movie, they made it a publicized concert and invited Village People fans to see it, only for those fans to be drag queens that totally clashed with the producer's vision!
Also can you believe the movie cost $20 million to make? that's a lot of money in 1980, and supposedly the majority of it was spent on coke. Honestly I'm not surprised!
I mean...what was the producer expecting, exactly? 😂
I've heard that the group's construction man David Hodo got mad and tossed out the script saying the movie was a piece of garbage. He also thought they should stop the movie's production and it seems that he was right all along..
@@josephrowe849 I bet he was like, "THIS is supposed to be our story?! NONE OF THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED AT ALL!!"
@@calilovett2063 Most of the movie had to reshot after Walker was was sidelined and uncredited 2nd-unit directors took over.
Wow! I never heard that figure. That's nearly twice what Raiders of the Lost Ark cost the following year.
Fun fact: this movie had a tie-in ice cream flavor at Baskin Robbins called Can't Stop The Nuts. (Yes, really.)
(Cinema Snob) *GET IT!!!!*
Two snowballs and a ding dong!
PG
This was back when PG meant something
And it was delicious.
'The Cirque Du So-Gay' XD I'm dying!
Lol.
"If they're auditioning singers, why do they have all these other acts showing up?"
Eye candy? Movie filler? "The Gong Show's" popularity? They didn't want to wait 25 years for TH-cam? I'm just spit-balling here.
😆 Or the producers got a surprising turnout for auditions, and yes, could pad out the run time on the cheap?
Just so they could have James and his flames. (I say 6 years later)
Dear Musical Hell,
You were able to figure this plot out better than I could. And I applaud you for it.
My friend and I were given two complimentary passes to this movie when it premiered in Oklahoma City. I was working in a record store at the time. Half of the audience didn't even stay for the second half of the movie. But, we were vigilant and stayed until the bitter end. We were in tears describing how bad the movie was to our friends later in the bar.
11:21 "Does anyone else keep expecting to hear Tim Curry's voice every time she opens her mouth?"
*raises hand* Me.
Ditto.
She's got the hair down.
Yep, this movie caused me to cringe so intensely I require emergency services.
I'm not joking.
Speaking of... the fashion in this movie! I mean why is it that males no longer proudly bare their upper thighs anymore?
And their midriff!
Men's thighs disappeared around 1985 with the introduction of jams, and, drat the luck, the hemline just stayed there for 3 f'n' decades. If someone had told me when this movie came out that, in 25 years, Speedos would go down to men's knees, I'd've chuckled in "that-defeats-the-purpose" ill humor ... and I'm still chuckling.
Good Lord of Darkness, you could fill up a Cliché Bingo sheet with this movie.
I had just realize something; doesn't Samantha come off as a hypocrite? Throughout the film, she hated being treated as a sex symbol thanks to her modeling career. Complaining that the producers she would just ask her out to dinner and saying that it's just "the casting couch". THEN Samantha goes out of her way to try to seduce her ex time and again. You know, going along with the good old "casting couch" she had despised.
6:49 Considering how synonymous The Village People are with gay culture, it's more than slightly jarring seeing them dancing all seductively with members of the opposite sex. XD
especially when nothing about the natural body movement scream straight. I know it a sterotype that guys that move the way they do are gay.. but there a reason that a sterotype.
In fairness the only Village People members who were actually gay were...surprise surprise, the "Cowboy" and the "Injun"
@@iwasanangryyoungman *ahem* According to Wikipedia, Glenn Hughes frequented The Mineshaft, and was buried in his leathers. I think it's quicker to say that the one acknowledged straight man in the act was Victor Willis, who was fired -- not for being straight -- but for seeking a bigger paycheck. The rest were Kinsey 3's or higher.
@@ignatiuszoo btw do you know that Victor Willis was once married to Phylicia Allen (now Rashad)?
@@iwasanangryyoungman No, I didn't! She appears to have excellent taste.
"Gemini, my hoof! You're bipolar!"
That had me dying. 😂
The actor (now reality TV star woman) saying "I'm a Gemini is a Scorpio in real life.
(17:02) Hey look...their milkshake brought all the boys to the yard!
It's not better than mine, though.
"Do the Shake" is AWESOME. It's dumb on purpose and it's catchy as hell...I can't stop singing it.
Diane _
I have to say the all white costumes were pretty sharp. And Randy the cowboy kind of steals the number. How did he and Felipe not get a Cowboys and Indians production number?
WOW, I love this movie on a camp level but it does make me p glad that The Village People and Caitlyn Jenner never really did any more acting
I will say, the actors are fine when they're just doing silent reactions. Like Guttenberg before the group goes on at the end, that was a nice moment. There's just no good way to say most of the dialogue, lol. As for the Village People, they had some good moments of wry humor, I think they could have been trusted with a bit more. As you say, they disappear for too long in a movie supposedly about them!
"Can't Stop The Music" seems painful, but you made watching it seem like a lot of fun.
The video alludes to it, but I love the fact that Jack’s mother is played by June Havoc, the real life “Baby June” from Gypsy, and the sister of Gypsy Rose Lee.
You wanna hear something weird? In Australia on New Years Eve, one of the main news channels, Channel Nine, would for some reason play this film... THIS film. And I don't know why.
Daniel Diaz exactly, this movie sucks, if channel nine is going to show a 1980 film on n.y.e why not show Flying High!. That is a funny film and some people would be flying around n.y.e.
For some unknown reason, this film was HUGE in Australia (and only there), flopping in every other country when it came out.
There in 'Straya, the movie is seen as a cult classic at best. It's one of those moments where a film or any entertainment piece is hated at home but did better in other parts of the world.
For example, Benny Hill wasn't beloved in his home land the UK mainly because of his unP.C. humor but America happens to love him a lot especially that catchy theme tune.
Maybe the channel got the broadcast rights for this movie for a song? I don't know. A few things I've learned recently about which movies can find a second, third, or 20th life in retransmission, and how, have surprised me.
@@RLucas3000 One person claimed it was because Australia loves a bit of camp. Also, I think it's because Australia loves light and mellow music. I mean, I'm Australian and I'm not even a fan of this movie one bit.
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the Village People's cheese-tastic 70's hits "YMCA", "Go West" & "In the Navy", but this hot mess of a movie won't be on my watch list anytime soon. It is almost a shame that they fell so fast though.
Jane Byrne I put Macho Man a close second after YMCA
They didn;t fall entirely. People still sing their songs, and they still give concerts.
"Can't Stop The Music" is my favorite 8 track tape. "Sound Of The City" by David London is truly awesome.
Deserves a top-notch remix...too bad Daft Punk are no longer around
Funny enough, on Spotify the song is credited to....the Village People!!!
Apparently the session vet under the pseudonym "David London" wanted to Alan Smithee out of this flaming trainwreck
4:25 that line reading was so bad it hurts
Oh no, Jack's a gary-stu! :O
I'd like to hear more about Valerie & Nancy fighting! Valerie is an Oscar nominated actress, I'd figure she'd have one or two decent line reading.
Nancy Walker is most famous for playing the Jewish mother on RHODA, but she was actually Irish!
For a while in the '50s, she was Montgomery Clift's beard.
@@Blaqjaqshellaq And Bounty - The quicker picker upper!
@@Blaqjaqshellaq And Sophia Petrillo's sister on The Golden Girls
@@colleen4ever that's how I know her...
That stupid milkshake song is stuck in my head now... 😠😠
+Lady HawkOwl And now you made me think of the Village People doing Kelis' milkshake XD
This movie came out the same day as The Blues Brothers....yeah.
And everyone knows who is the better movie & beat who
@@LucyLioness100 The Blues Brothers is a stone cold classic in my book.
The Blues Brothers wins by a landslide.
@@ricardohuff8774 But its 1998 sequel "BB2K"? Not so much.
@@andrewbloom7637 that do not count at all.
There was one really funny thing that came out of the movie, though more in a meta way. Alan Carr (one of the most flamboyantly gay men of a very flamboyant era, seriously he had a hell of a life) actually trolled Baskin-Robbins into releasing a special flavor of ice cream as a commercial tie-in with the movie's release. It was called: Can't Stop the Nuts. Nice bit of revenge for not being allowed to feature openly gay characters. Brilliant bit of trolling.
How the hell did Guttenberg become the most-hired actor in Hollywood for a while a few years later? He is gratingly, painfully, obnoxiously bad in this. He talks like the most annoying nine-year-old on the planet. _"It's not faaaaiiiir..."_
And the less said about Jenner, the better!
He was the stop gap for Tom Hanks.
As far as there being no long term risks, that was them trying to ape 1930's movie musicals where anyone with a song and dream could just walk into a theater or studio and become a star. Thing is, THOSE movies weren't 2 hours, hehe. Well, regardless, I have to admit Can't Stop the Music just makes me bizarrely happy for some reason, lol. Thing with flops is, they often break a lot of conventional rules and sometimes that can be very refreshing, despite the occasional cringe. ;)
They're also a convenient reminder of why the rules exist in the first place. (Not to say that breaking rules is always bad, but it needs to be done with intentionality...and pulling it off requires understanding why the rule exists in the first place.)
The best thing about this movie is the song by the Village People Can't Stop the Music.
Where can you find pleasure
Search the world for treasure
Learn science technology
Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true
On the land or on the sea
Where can you learn to fly
Play in sports and skin dive
Study oceanography
Sign up for the big band
Or sit in the grandstand
When your team and others meet
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on now, people, make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can't you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come on, protect the mother land
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on people, and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)
They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit
If you like adventure
Don't you wait to enter
The recruiting office fast
Don't you hesitate
There is no need to wait
They're signing up new seamen fast
Maybe you are too young
To join up today
Bout don't you worry 'bout a thing
For I'm sure there will be
Always a good navy
Protecting the land and sea
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on be bold and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can't you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come on, protect the motherland
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on be bold and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)
They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit
Who me?
They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit
But, but, but, I'm afraid of water.
Hey, hey look
Man, I get seasick even watchin' it on the TV!
They want you, they want you in the navy
Oh my goodness.
What am I gonna do in a submarine?
They want you, they want you in the navy
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on be bold and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can't you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come protect the motherland
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on be bold and make a stand
2:22
And I am an F. B. I. AGENT!
Seriously his delivery of that line reminds me soo much of that bit of Keanu Reeves
Can we get a Know for Score on the Muppet Movie? I think it deserves it.
"...with a bunch of--I don't know what!" I think you do...
Had Tim Curry played Sam’s (gay male) friend, this movie would have been 30% better. And 60% campier.
Or even Sam's female friend. That would have been funny.
Nothing could make this movie campier.
Ironic Muppet Movie reference, as Gutenberg asked Sam if she was auditioning for a Ms. Piggy look a like contest.
Just one "just happens" goes wrong and the music is stopped.
2:40 Still, better him rollerskating in the middle of the street but clothed instead of jogging with his microphone in plain sight of everyone in Central Park... ugh, I feel dirty even remembering that happened.
'Don't Stop the Music' was really setting itself up for reviews like 'PLEASE stop the music!'
14:51 Wow they started casting for Hamilton a *long* time ago! I wonder who had the idea to audition frogs for it? Are there French roles?
Though the Disco craze was over by the time this movie came out in the US, it was just ramping up in Australia where its popularity pushed the movie into the black. Well, almost.
The titular song hit no. 1 in 'Straya and even South Africa.
What a joke of a film. A most entertaining review!
This movie was rated PG - and features topless women, jockstrap-wearing men, and full-frontal male nudity. Fun for the whole family!
YOU KNOW, FOR KIDS!!!!
Back when PG meant something
😂😊
Astounding that this movie and "Xanadu" existed contemporaneously with "All That Jazz".
16:43 Na...na. na. Na na na, na...lol SHOOT THAT'S STUCK IN MY HEAD NOW. My band did that song once and in the "breakdown" march off finale we playing na na na na...FOR THREE FULL MINUTES while only a single saxophonist went wild trying to play the "Jude" response 30 different ways...
Everyone thought he was having a blast...until that student went up to the conductor and told him to find another soloist lol.
Lulu keeps doing a Veronica (sticking your hand behind your head with your elbow out to imply flirtation)
AWESOME review. Please keep it up, I love your channel & reviews
Kelis Milkshake song soooo stole from this movie.
Funny you mention the Muppets, as the horny Lulu is the voice of Ma Otter in Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas.
I literally was about to say that! The actress is Marilyn Sokol. At least you can tell she’s putting effort in the material she’s been given.
These bad films you review are actually quite fun☺
This movie looks awful but just the right amount of "so bad it's fun" that makes me wanna watch it.
"You can't stop the music"
...is that a threat?
I would love to find out how the Hell the sublime Nancy Walker ended up directing this... And how sad is it that we never got a sequel showing the Village People's flop 1980s New Wave reincarnation (as seen here in their 1985 performance of Sex Over the Phone--which would have been a great title song... th-cam.com/video/JQU9d56AsiU/w-d-xo.html )
Allan Carr was her manager and he thought she's been in front of the camera enough times, and she's a comedienne - so why not give her a chance! Some of the crew later said, "It was painful watching her direct." and "She seemed totally lost. Like sometimes she couldn't even find the back of the camera to look through."
Frank Zappa reference = immediate likes.
I never heard of this before, but after watching this i WANT to watch it. It looks fun and ridiculous.
9:34 Oh! The irony!!!!
"You can't stop the music"? Here, watch me. *hits mute button*
3:15
...Admittedly I forgot about that part where you showed a Daring Do book for a bit to prove a point about self-inserts.
I wonder if that TV special you mentioned at the beginning is more worth watching than "Can't Stop the Music". 🤔
This movie needs some more Gene Gene the Dancing Machine.
Seeing this makes me surprised Bruce didn't transition into Caitlyn sooner.
is this how they came up with milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
This movie is so late 70s I can smell burnt bras through the screen
hey! Altovise Davis! she was in Kingdom of Spiders with Shatner!
Which village do those people come from? x
Greenwich Village/Manhattan. The Gayest' part of NYC.
Where Steve Rubell was from.
A movie that's about/starring the Village People has no business being this excruciatingly BORING.
I can definitely say I liked Guttenberg better in "Police Academy". XD
And Short Circuit and The Day After.
@@ginnrollins211 What about the "Three Men and a..." films?
@@andrewbloom7637 I haven't seen them so...
11:21 ba-da--BUM! (*rimshot*)
This movie is pure gabarge.
What about the sound track? No one mentions that.
It was 1979, you could make anything into disco....even your cats meow sounds
"I'm James and flame's my game.". Would someone explain the joke, please?
Awww, no… I love this movie! I even hunted it down on eBay! Hell, even my son enjoys it, and he's nearly 9, so definitely not this movie's _intended_ audience or the generation who would've lived through the time in which the movie is set!
It's not a perfect movie, for sure; it's not even a _great_ movie, I'll concede. But it _is_ very good & immensely enjoyable, IMHO! 🤷🏻♀️🥰❤️
From what I’m gathering fans of the Village People dig this film like fans of Kiss dig “Kiss Meets The Phantom of The Park”
It’s a guilty pleasure brought on by longtime enthusiasm and I’m all for it
Channel Nine in Australia screen this every New Years Eve for those too drunk and/or lazy to leave the house.
Allan Carr must be so full of shit, he said that Bruce Jenner was gonna be the Robert Redford of the 80's and that the movie is a revolution and is launching new careers because we need new stars because Warren Beatty, Ryan O'Neal, and Robert Redford are all over 40.
Allan Carr thought Bruce Jenner was a fabulous comedian.
CSTM is corny and cheesy and has it's moments But too few. And Village People. And it was released when disco was paws up. It would have been more interesting with actual plot and with more Village People. But Valerie nails Samantha and the film damaged her career.
only "paws up" in the U.S...
The headdress makes me really uncomfortable. I mean in the context of “That’s just how that band member dressed” it’s still much, but in the context of a movie where that character is dressed like that 24/7, it comes off as basically blackface.
In fact, why are the band members dressing up as their personas in a universe that’s supposed to be the real world? It comes off like I’m watching a cartoon. And if I wanted to watch a cartoon, I’d either go watch an actual cartoon or a Deadpool movie.
The band members are written as coming from the profession/group their costumes represent. There's actually a grain of truth in Felipe's case: his father is Lakota Sioux and prior to Village People he did have a job in a gay club where he wore tribal regalia. Doesn't excuse the general stereotypicalness of his costume or the fact that they have him in it all the time, but there you are.
the rim shots made me laugh
6:17 They had to go there, didn’t they?
The funniest part of the movie is how all the Village People (and everyone else) had to be straight, because it was 1980 and you couldn't have gay main characters, especially not portrayed in a positive light.
This movie is awful but I do kind of like how it looks like the guy with the beard in the painting is eyeing the singing leather man
Or all of the Village People eyeing Bruce Jenner's hairy abs and jorts, triggering his eventual transition into Caitlyn
4:34 well... That's not suggestive whatsoever.
even as a gay guy with virtually no rep, i think ill pass
Can't Stand The Music.
So this is a movie in which Bruce Jenner gets his crotch burnt by lasagne...
Oh, apparently he didn't want that anyway.
Did... did they cast the village police as straight men? And I think poor Bruce was doing double duty playing a straight man ALSO playing a straight man, and not a glamorous lesbian.
Fun fact: the woman who brings in Ray "The Policeman" Simpson was a part originally written for the wife of the VP's original policeman Victor Willis. He was uncomfortable with the group's status as gay icons and demanded his character be given a girlfriend. He left the group during pre-production, so the part was rewritten as a random friend. (Willis and his wife eventually divorced, and she wound up changing her name and making her own claim to fame as Phylicia Rashad).
Martin's guide:"gay subtext abounds despite eye-boggling profile shots of Perrine"
I tried it several times but never made it through that movie. It is really one of the worst flicks ever made. I even struggle to make it through this review.
I think the only way to actually watch the whole thing is to have your eyes forced open, like Alex in A Clockwork Orange.
This film is considered a bomb, but our theatre did fantastic business with it for the first weekend. No good after that, of course, but disco wasn't entirely dead yet. XANADU a year later did, however, flop; it was a nearly empty theatre for three miserable weeks. h
Jack Morel = Jacques Morali
9:52 every fucking tween weaboo/fangirl in a nutshell.
10:43 so that's why Bruce became Caitlyn.
Sorry, but you seem to forget the old Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney 'let's get a band together (IN OUR BACK YARD) musicals of the early 40s. They sported plots as paper thin as this one, and the 'just so happens' happened ALL THE TIME. The fact is this film was pushing a gay group on the mainstream and they did a careful but adequate job.
A bunch of...I don't know what?! Ahahahahah! Oh, that's a whole new level of white.
It’s surprising how they made the village people so sucky in this
bruce jenner its catlyn now
+MrGabeanator True, but this review was written before Catlyn Jenner had publicly transitioned. (Honestly, I'm glad it did, since I'm not sure what the protocol is for referring to the work she did when she was still "Bruce"...)
+Musical Hell hmm I wonder
+Musical Hell Is it just me, or does Steve (the character, not the actor) look like Neil Gaiman?
+Pete Hill ok
I thought Bob Dylan.
Lucky for me Strobes Don't effect my Seizures.
For the first time since February 24, 2020, I'm about to rewatch the "Can't Stop the Music" episode.
EDIT- 12:44 P.M.: *finishes review 22 minutes later*
This movie was *much* worse than I remembered it being! 👎
Bruce Jenner, huh? This is awkward.
Note that this review was written before Caitlyn Jenner went public with her gender identity, so "Bruce Jenner" was still the accepted form of reference. (Frankly, I'm kind of glad I didn't have to deal with it; I'm sure I would have been clumsy about it and stepped on some toes inadvertently.)
Musical Hell I'm sorry to disturb. It was just a joke. You can go back to your demoniness
No worries :-)
Musical Hell You're awesome Diva
Jessica hymow wait which character was he in this ?