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At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Trust me: this movie is whack, but I couldn't help but grinning and dancing a bit by the film's end.The musical "formation" of The Village People was a crazy mesh of many different characters (and I mean oddball crazy people) and absolutely offensive stereotypes. But, gosh darn it, I liked them anyways.I am somewhat unfamiliar with The Village People with the exception of said stereotypes and at least three songs I grew up with and, yeah, danced to…even in public. But, I knew of them and actually got to see them preform at a State Fair when they opened for a favorite band of mine growing up: The Monkees. They performed well, from what budget they were allotted on a State Fair stage and only opening for another band.But, I digress. What captured me during this crazy movie was the positivity. Well, the jokes, too. Some of the jokes actually did work and the characters including "Miss Tesch-mac-her!" and Commercial Agent Channing were a ton of fun to watch. Despite all the looney and completely unrealistic occurrences and coincidences, everyone remained so positive like they really wanted to perform and be here. (It's been reported that might not have been the case, but they could've fooled me.) Additionally, some of the music and segments did get me moving. Admittedly, I watched this for a bad-movie podcast called How Did This Get Made?, since they covered it recently. And I did think it was a complete mess at first – even stopping it about half-way through and giving up on it until the next day. But, the more I think about it, I unabashedly enjoyed it. Helps there was full-frontal male nudity in it even with a PG rating. Um, I digress, again. The movie is supposed to be a loose description of how the band, The Village People and its creative "genius" (Mom's words) got started. It's pure fantasy and simply can't be taken seriously.It's just for fun and if you liked The Village People and the many more actors in here, it's worth the trip.***Final thoughts: I really only had two disappointments. One: they didn't sing my favorite Village People song: Macho Man. Come to think of it, In The Navy was also not performed and though I like that song, too, Macho Man can stick in my head all day. And two: Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner. He was simply not fun to watch. His character was all-over the place and a total buzz-kill. Yes, he was meant to be at first, but then he grew to be one of the gang and suddenly he was back to being a dick, so to speak.

Today, October 28 2014, is Bruce Jenner's 65th birthday. One wonders what he'd say to his 31 year old self if he could travel back in time? "Please turn down "Can't Stop the Music!" Stay on the Wheaties box!" Alas, we shall never know, but one thing's for certain, Bruce did appear in this shiny disco ball and we're all better for it, 34 years later.CSTM remains the final nail in the coffin of what we call disco. Released too late to fully cash in on the ebbing national dance craze, this astoundingly bad movie hit every wrong note and cemented itself in memory as a wreck the size of the Titanic. So, what's really it's appeal all these years later? THE VILLAGE PEOPLE. Three little words that finally showed all the good folks in the heartland what was going on in NYC's Christopher Street area. Ostensibly a biopic of how the People got together, the plethora of wooden acting and gay denial is so thick you could cut it with a knife. What was once refused is now revered, camp has triumphed, and the People became a national treasure. No one in their right mind who finally sees this unintentionally hilarious mess can believe that the "G" word is never spoken. Despite being a near-documentary about life in the gay district, everyone is presented as heterosexual. Perhaps someone living under a rock in North Dakota believed this, but no one else did. Today, the clues and innuendos are all out there ( pun intended) and we can enjoy the gloriously horrendous acting by everyone on screen. Of course, "YMCA" went on to become as well known as the national anthem, played at every wedding reception since the song first appeared. Of note here are:The auditions for the "new singing group". Featuring Leatherman Glen Hughes belting out "Danny Boy" in full leather drag while standing on a corporate boardroom table. He gets the job, while the real star of the audition, Mr.Flaming Baton twirler is sent packing. Hughes, who has since passed away, has the movie's best line. When he arrives for the audition in his leathers, Valerine Perrine asks what he does for a living. He tells her he's a ticket taker on a toll highway. When she replies "Do all ticket takers dress that way?", he snaps "Only the HOT ONES!" Construction worker David Hodo is given a weird solo song called "I Love You To Death". He gyrates around a number of women who throw red glitter on him. Seeing as how AIDS would present itself in the gay community not too distantly after this movie was released, this song takes on a whole new meaning that no one could have foreseen.Bruce Jenner in a crop top taking the gang to a place for "young men". Steven Guttenberg rollerskating through New York and not getting mugged.Director Nancy Walker, "Rhoda's mother" and Bounty paper towel hawker never directed another movie. Sad, seeing the genius she brought to CSTM.The all-white versions of the People's street drag while they do the Milkshake.Fun Fact: Despite the events depicted in CSTM, music man Jacques Morali resorted to advertising in the want ads of the Village Voice to find singers for a new group. After stating was was needed by applicants, the ad ended "must have mustache". That pretty much described every man wandering Christopher Street at the time.Just try to not to sing along while watching! Oh, by the way, the "Cop" Victor Willis was the only straight man in the lineup. He was briefly married to Phylicia Allen (who became Phylicia Rashad "The Cosby Show") and left the People because he allegedly didn't like the image of the group. You can't stop the music. Really.

This movie was bad in 1980. It is worst now! Talk about not aging well. There is a good reason it flopped so badly during initial release: bad story, bad acting, bad cast. But on a positive note, it does have a few catchy tunes such as YMCA, Magic Night and Can't Stop the Music. Too bad disco was over by the time it reached the screen.Producer Alan Carr actually thought he had another monster hit like Grease. Nothing could be further from the truth. One is almost embarrassed to watch this mess. It actually makes Xanadu look like high they thinking"? Bruce Jenner moves like cardboard and seems uneasy during this entire exercise. Valarie Perrine added another film to her list of flops. Steve Guttenberg is horrible beyond words. The movie is suppose to be the story of how the group The Village People got together. But that was deemed a little too gay so we have this love story going between Valarie and Bruce. The Village People get very little screen time which is a blessing. It is humorous to see the ultra gay Village People with their "girl friends" in several of the scenes.Stay away. Don't say I didn't warn you!

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.