Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Michael_Elliott Can't Stop the Music (1980) ** (out of 4)Jack MOrell (Steve Guttenerg) is a struggling writer with the help of his friend (Valerie Perrine) manages to strike up a band called The Village People. Their attempt at getting someone to take them serious is a challenge but soon the whole world is going to catch on.CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC was a notorious flop when it was released and there have been all kinds of reasons given. It was supposed to hit during the disco craze but it turned out to be released as that music genre was quickly dying. Another problem is that the film itself got horrible reviews and this just helped keep more people away. Over the past decade or so the film has gained a strong cult following due to how campy it actually is.I honestly didn't think the film was too bad but there's no question that there are some major issues here. For starters, this was meant to show off The Village People but it doesn't do that. In fact, the film paints them as pretty boring people all around. Whenever they aren't singing they basically just stand around watching things so seeing their "success" story doesn't really hit us because they're so boring. If you don't like their music then you're even deeper into the "I don't care" thing. Is the film campy? Sure but aren't The Village People kinda campy now? The film has a really silly vibe to it as if the director was simply trying way too hard to make the characters and situation seem cool. Another problem is that some of the song clips are pretty much done in a video format and they are embarrassing. This is especially true for Y.M.C.A., which has to be seen to be believed.The performances from The Village People really aren't that good but there are a couple catchy songs. Steve Guttenberg is always fun to watch but he's not given too much to do here. I did think Perrine was quite good in her role. Then there's Bruce Jenner who is quite embarrassing here but his silly and over-the-top performance does add a few laughs.As it stands, CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC isn't nearly as awful as its reputation would make you believe but at the same time it's a pretty big embarrassment that fell well short of where it wanted to be.

tavm Well, after 30 years of pretty much avoiding this movie that got so many bad reviews and was such a bomb at the box office, I finally managed to watch Can't Stop the Music on a DVD that I borrowed from the library several days ago. Man, what an ultra cheesy movie this was! Where to start...Steve Guttenberg getting the multiple-image treatment when roller skating on the streets of N.Y., a couple of audition scenes like when that guy singing "Macho Man" starts stripping as he shows off his muscled body or that other guy twirling a couple of flaming batons just before it sets the water sprinklers, Bruce Jenner getting hot food dropped on his lap which gets both Steve and Valerie Perrine taking his pants off, and that whole bizarre "Y.M.C.A" number...there's plenty more but I think you get the drift. There's also some funny and some very unfunny moments galore here though it's interesting seeing such accomplished character actors like Jack Weston, Barbara Rush, Tammy Grimes, Paul Sand, and especially June Havoc as Guttenberg's mother do what they can with the material. Actually, while I mentioned that the "Y.M.C.A" number was pretty bizarre, it also provided some energy along with many of the other ones that made many of the just talking scenes just so monotonous or pointless in comparison. In summation, Can't Stop the Music was a mess that first-and-only-time director Nancy Walker couldn't fix and it must have knocked screenwriter Bronte Woodard and his co-writing partner and producer Allan Carr down a notch after their big success with Grease two years before though Carr wouldn't really decline in power until that really awful production number involving Snow White and Rob Lowe at the 1989 Academy Awards. That said, the cheesiness did contribute to the fun I had watching this and I may watch this again if I so desired. Certainly, some scenes with Ms. Perrine would make it worth my while again...P.S. Once again, I have to acknowledge someone involved here that's from my birthtown of Chicago, Ill. This time it's Mr. Carr. And one more thing: A critic back in the day said, "By 2010, this movie will become 1980's The Gang's All Here." Now, considering that picture had such icons as Busby Berkeley and Carmen Miranda, I don't think the comparison's apt. They both have similar camp value, however.

Cristian Is funny to talk good about a movie that for much people is actually bad, that is the reason of why talk about "Can't Stop the Music" is funny."Cant Stop the Music" is a semi - biographical musical of Disco famous group "The Village People", and when i talk about the biographical is because there some facts that actually happen to build the group, only that the film put some fictitious characters for give reason to some funny situations. So, the story is about a Steve Guttenber who wants to bring his music to the world and be famous, and how with the help of a Valerie Perrine (Bob Fosse's "Lenny") get men with good voice - You know who are they - for build a group and in this way be famous. This was the plot of "Cant Stop the Music", one of the first 80s musical (Of course, with "Xanadu").The movie win big of fame, but not as the Big and Great musical of the 80s, only as "This movie is bad than ... " and that kind of things. And is undoubtedly, "Cant Stop the Music" is one of the cheesy musicals of the 80s, for not saying THE cheesy. Anyway, this is cheesy funny film, that i think that don't deserves the fame that have for some reasons: Maybe, even if you like "Village People" don't going to love the film, but if the supposed problems that have doesn't care to you, and you love "Village People", you going to fall in love with this film. And, for being a musical in the 80s, times very hard for the Musical genre, this film have great and dazzlings choreography for each song. Besides, for a plot, yes, the things seems to be a fast unworried script, where well, it seems that don't much happens, and some of the problems not are the interesting, for much, thing, but that's part of all the fun. This is a easy and funny movie, but never unworried.There's another point that nobody ignores and even, blame this film, and is about the gay subtext. Unless this bother you, the time of this movie was 1980 and the musical was about "The Village People", now, is not a secret that this music impact in a lot of gay discos in San Francisco, the most shocked public by this music (In spite that the "YMCA" is very well known even between straight guys) was gay community. Even some of the "Village People" moved in the gay ambient (Felipe Rose, for example, was the first of the rest of integrates who begin the group, of course not alone. However, he was found it in a gay disco as a waiter, but this waiter have an Indian costume), and the costumes that their put it on, represents, i guess, all the worldwide masculinity symbols and are a kind of spoof of critic about machismo (Sorry if i'm wrong with that). So, with all these characteristics, How you can expect a film without that certain elements? They said in production notes that the movie have to be made of something straight. However, we see some scenes like the famous "YMCA" scene where a lot of hunks playing between them naked in the shower and even dance in a choreography for the exercises. So, this thing is don't bad, look it in this way, it was inevitable, it was them.There is another thing to understand the movie moods and this is explain thanks to the character of Valerie Perrine, Samantha, who told us a thing that is actually truth: "This is the 80s ... Your going to see things that you've never seen before" ... Well, "Cant Stop the Music" is one of that things, but it was the newly born 80s. It was the 80s of joy, before, no much much time before, but before anyway of the born of the doom of AIDS. "Cant Stop the Music" is actually that, the happy newly born 80s."Cant Stop the Music" is not so successful but really exciting and funny musical, really good and to pass good times, because, no matter in what time you born, "Cant Stop the Music" is like a time capsule that take you to an optimistic and happy 80s anytime you want.*Sorry for the mistakes...well, if there any.

caa821 There really are some pieces of entertainment which are so bad that they are thoroughly enjoyable. This movie is an example of this to be placed in a time capsule to illustrate this for future generations.Look at the facts: it has the Village People portrayed as a group of straight young men, of diverse occupations, who are united as a musical group; Bruce Jenner is presented as an actor in a lead role; Bruce and the others work-out with the "People" at the gym (YMCA); Valerie Perrine is the lead female (her claim to fame is being the first woman to show her nipples on television, 30+ years ago); Steve Guttenberg and Paul Sand represent the most prominent actor and comic presence, respectively, the producers obtained for the film; and, there is the added presence of the long-in-tooth Tammy Grimes, the longer-in-tooth Barbara Rush, and the longest-in-tooth June Havoc to the cast. Call it campy, strange, weird, weak, laughable - or whatever other adjective(s) you can conjure - it is so bad it's thoroughly engrossing and entertaining. And there is something about watching the Village People act, cavort and sing, and listening to their music, which does nothing but add further to this fascination - and their acting makes Ed Wood seem like Olivier (but like all else here, so bad it's you-know-what).