Xanadu
1,677
Fantasy. Musical. Romance
Zeus, worried about the fate of a young painter, chooses one of the nine muses who preside over the arts to inspire the artist to greatness. So the lovely goddess Kira descends to earth and encourages her ward to open a disco roller skating rink. First, she locates a clarinet player whom she inspired in the 1940s, and convinces him to return to music by funding the rink. Then the three transform an abandoned building into a neon-lit, ... [+]
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United States | ReelViews | "'Cheesy' doesn't even begin to describe it, yet that's at the heart of its perverse charm." | POS |
United States | Chicago Sun-Times | "A mushy and limp musical fantasy, so insubstantial it keeps evaporating before our eyes. It's one of those rare movies in which every scene seems to be the final scene" | NEG |
United Kingdom | Empire | "This modern musical falls flat on its face simply because the premise is so utterly ludicrous." | NEG |
United States | Chicago Tribune | "Director Robert Greenwald has a lot of ideas, all of them bad" | NEG |
United States | The Washington Post | "Xanadu cannot possibly be described as a good movie, but it can be recommended to those who can tolerate large amounts of intravenous marzipan." | NEU |
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