Can't Stop The Music

All of this just works. ― Todd Howard

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Can't Stop The Music
Let's stop this by ourselves, shall we?
Genre: Musical Directed by: Nancy Walker Produced by: Allan Carr Henri Belolo Jacques Morali Written by: Allan Carr Bronté Woodard Starring: Village People Steve Guttenberg Valerie Perrine Caitlyn Jenner Paul Sand Tammy Grimes June Havoc Barbara Rush Altovise Davis Marilyn Sokol The Ritchie Family Photography: Color Cinematography: Bill Butler Editing: John F. Burnett Music by: Jacques Morali Production company: EMI Films Distributed by: Associated Film Distribution Release date: June 20, 1980 Runtime: 124 minutes Country: United States Language: English Budget: $20 million Box office: $2 million

Can't Stop The Music is a 1980 musical film starring The Village People in their first (and only) feature film. The film is most infamous for inspiring the Golden Raspberry Awards (as its creator attended a double feature of this and Xanadu).

Plot

The story of how the Village People was formed.

Why The Music Was Stopped

1. Boring story, filled with several clichés and contrivances.
2. Terrible acting, especially from Caitlyn Jenner.
3. Inappropriate content, even featuring brief nudity, despite it being PG.
4. Related to the first statement, the movie is not sure if it wants to fully embrace the camp gay overtones that made the Village People famous, with things such as a heterosexual love story.
5. Nothing really special about a Village People film, especially one that came at the wrong time (when disco backlash was in full force) and does not tell their story (their founder Jacques Morali becomes the more American-sounding Jack Morell, original singer Victor Willis is ignored).
6. Bizarre scenes that drag on.
7. The only famous Village People song featured is "YMCA", and the rest of the soundtrack is Village People filler at best.
8. Poor timing: It came out when disco was suffering a massive backlash.

Redeeming Qualities

1. The ridiculousness makes for unintentional comedy more effective than the actual attempts at jokes.
2. Decent musical numbers, especially the non-Village People songs.

Reception

Can't Stop The Music currently holds a 7% "rotten" on Rotten Tomatoes with an average of 2.3 out of 10, but doesn't hold a consensus as of right now. TV Guide awarded the film a rare zero out of four and stated in the review "This botched affair... goes absolutely nowhere and failed to cause much of a stir with moviegoers who, by the time of its release, were jumping on the disco backlash bandwagon." The late Gene Siskel and the late Roger Ebert also deemed the film one of their "Dogs of the Year".

Box Office

The film had an estimated budget of about $20 million, the film flopped after it only made $2 million at the box office.

Awards and nominations

Can't Stop the Music was nominated for six Golden Raspberry awards including Worst Song "(You) Can't Stop the Music" by Jacques Morali. The film won two Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay.

Trivia

• This and Raise the Titanic (which was a Worst Picture nominee) caused the dissolution of Associated Film Distribution.

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External Links

• Can't Stop The Music at the Internet Movie Database
• Can't Stop The Music on Rotten Tomatoes

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