Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Michael_Elliott The Apple (1980) * (out of 4)Notorious film about Bibi (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Alphie (George Gilmour) who are trying to be a successful singing duo in the futuristic 1994. The one and only Mr. Boogalow wants to sign them and Bibi is quick to do so but Alphie just doesn't trust him enough for that.THE APPLE was a notorious flop when it was released but over the years it has picked up quite a cult following thanks to people checking it out since it is considered one of the worst films of the decade. After the success of GREASE and SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, all sorts of producers were trying to find the next hit musical but the majority of them flopped like this one. The only good thing that can be said about THE APPLE is the fact that it makes CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC look like SINGIN' IN THE RAIN.There are all sorts of problems with this movie but we can start with the screenplay or the lack of one. There are a lot of really stupid characters in this film and they're all quite annoying and not once do you care about any of them. You don't care if the leads succeed in their mission or if they are destroyed. You don't care about the people, their situations or anything else for that matter. The movie basically goes from one musical scene to another but the songs are so annoying and silly that you can't take them serious.Not only are the characters and songs bad but the entire film is just so poorly made that you can't help but keep watching it. The one "good" thing about the movie were the costumes, which were quite impressive but that was it. THE APPLE remains somewhat entertaining simply because of how awful it is and there's certainly plenty of camp on display. I can understand why this movie has gotten a cult following as I can see people having parties and laughing and making fun of the film.

Christopher Malpas If Xanadu and Flash Gordon had a baby, it would be The Apple.I'm a fan of campy, trashy movies, especially musicals. I actually think Grease 2 is a better movie than the original Grease for instance.The Apple is REALLY trashy, in fact I would go as far as to say it has almost no redeeming features. The acting from most of the cast is way below par. Even amateur dramatics societies have better actors than this. George Gilmour in particular as the male lead "Alphie" is appalling. It comes as no surprise that this seems to be his only movie credit... That said, it doesn't help that nobody in this film is given anything in the script that would show their acting "talents". The sets are basically made up of bits of late 1970s Berlin brutalist architecture. Why is it films set in "the future" are always full of grey concrete?! The costumes are of the silver foil standard of future fashions, along with a lot of outfits that appear again to be straight out of the 1970s. Well they do say fashions come and go..The film itself, well its a simple tale of an innocent boy and girl getting sucked into and spat out of the music industry.. Along with some very misguided and in your face biblical references. The ending is truly spectacular. Spectacularly awful that is.The only vaguely redeeming feature of this film is possibly the soundtrack. OK, none of it sounds like the kind of music that was around in the real 1994, but there are some flourishes.I'm giving the film 5 out of 10. It is truly terrible, but a fun watch at the same time.

jasonleesmith6 Other than the kitsch factor of this film, there is nothing whatsoever to recommend it. The acting is horrible; the plot doesn't make sense; the songs are lousy and poorly performed; the sets are not even very good (mainly it was just filmed on location in office buildings in Germany).I think that the film-makers were influenced by the recent Bee Gees musical, "SGT Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." That "The Apple" compares unfavorably to it, should speak volumes -- just look at the reviews for "SGT Pepper." They were clearly going for some kind of biblical analogy: Innocents are tempted by the evil record company executive, and the woman succumbs to temptation. That's about as far as they could stretch the metaphor, though. The rest of the movie is about how the man tries to get the woman back, and how they are both taken in by a nomadic tribe of hippies, before God eventually rescues everybody and takes then away to populate a new planet. No, really, that's how it ends.RiffTrax has recently done of riff of this movie. I tried watching it once without the riff, and could only get about 10 minutes into it. RiffTrax makes it much more watchable, but it is still a chore.

geekzapoppin Words cannot express the joy I get whenever I sit down to see THE APPLE. I first experienced it in the best way possible, at an all-night movie marathon with a group of film fanatics. Everything about this film is so grossly over-the-top and gaudy that you just have to marvel that it was ever produced, much less released. I don't want to give anything away, but it is best described as Faust covered in glitter. The music is bad, the acting is worse and the direction is out the window. It's glorious! The lyrics to the songs, though earnest, are so clichéd that they illicit unintentional giggles with every line. The leading man is supposedly from Moosejaw, Canada but mysteriously sports a German accent. The height of future transportation is apparently a station wagon with extra lights attached. You can tell that Golan/Globus (yes, them) thought they were making a sincere statement about the power of love to conquer evil, as there was seemingly a decent budget on the film. Most of the musical numbers are large, crowded affairs and dancers don't come cheap. In summary, any film that features God coming down from the sky in a Heavenly Cadillac is okay by me!