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Name: Xanadu
Released: 1980-8-8
Cast: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan, Dimitra Arliss

Xanadu

PG
1h 35m
1980

30%

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Xanadu is a look at the future and a loving remembrance of the way things were in the heyday of Hollywood. The musical score includes the hit songs "Magic," "I'm Alive," "All Over the World," "Suddenly," and the title song "Xanadu." Olivia Newton-John will dazzle your senses with her luminous beauty and fabulous voice. She and Gene Kelly star in this mesmerizing musical fantasy. The '40s meets the '80s in Xanadu, a very special love story and the first lavish, old-fashioned musical to utilize today's music.

Director:

Robert Greenwald

Producer:

Lawrence Gordon

Writer:

Richard Christian Danus, Marc Reid Rubel

Cast:

Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan, Dimitra Arliss, Katie Hanley, Fred McCarren, Ren Woods

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

30%

Critics Consensus: Not even spandex and over-the-top musical numbers can save Xanadu from questionable acting, unimpressive effects, and a story unencumbered by logic.

Reviews

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Eddie Harrison

…This may not be Xanadu as Orson Welles or Coleridge imagined it, but it you’re looking for a gaudy pleasuredome with Gene Kelly dancin’ to ELO, you’re absolutely welcome to this one…

It was never designed to age well and oddly, because of that fact, it remains relevant to this day. It's this impermanence that makes Xanadu feel significant; a then-product now-relic of the 1970s that celebrates the disco-era long after its demise.

March 13, 2021

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Philadelphia Gay News

Larry Vitacco

Xanadu offers a wealth of special effects entrancingly strung out along a rather impoverished screenplay.

June 22, 2021

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El Pais (Spain)

Jesús Fernández Santos

The excessive effects and music are the main protagonists in this story where the best part is the choreography. [Full Review in Spanish]

Xanadu is total confection. It's 100% ridiculous. Very little of it makes sense.... They really should have nixed the idea of finding a Gibb look-a-like and went with a song-and-dance man instead.

August 11, 2019

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