Xanadu - Magical Musical Edition (With Complete Soundtrack CD)

Already had the original DVD but wanted the upgraded audio and video quality! Well worth it!

the only improvement is the animorphic widescreen. the sound track that comes is exectaly the same as the one they releised as a single cd. the two missing songs that were reliesed as the flip side of the 45's are still missing from the cd that comes with it, making it incomplete.

The ONLY reason this movie bombed is because of the incredibly horrible casting of Michael Beck as "Sonny," Kira's (ONJ) love interest. Had an ironing board been given Beck's role, the movie would have had more charm.

The movie is a fantasy, yet the very idea the beautiful Newton-John would pine for the unattractive, stiff, non-personality Michael Beck defies the standard suspension of belief fantasy films require of their audiences.

Musicals, perhaps more than any other genre, really need their stars to share -- if not charisma, then at the very least compatibility. In every scene with Beck, Olivia is sweet and perky and bubbly and awesomely beautiful. However, she's still being forced to create enough onscreen personality for both herself and her costar.

Plus, you expect the two stars of the film to sing a duet or two.

But Beck can't sing. No can he dance.

If you completely ignore Beck and soak up the rest of the film, you've got a great movie. It has it all: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, beautiful and colorful scenery, fantastic music and dancing, and enough kitschy special effects to make this a great energy film.

I remember watching this movie originally. It has all the things a teenager needs to enjoy a movie, great music, beautiful people, and most important, it is a tale with a happy ending. The guy does get the girl, and things do go right. There is already too much misery in the world. A lot of these so called reviewers seem to forget that movies were not supposed to be reality. They were supposed to pick your spirits up, bring them down, and get you to feel some emotion. This world is already at a point where nobody wants to feel anything, I say forget the impossible, enjoy the fantastic, and let the disbelief stay where it belongs, in real life. Your kids will love this, and if you can spend 90 minutes trying to be a kid, you will enjoy it.

This sums up what the 80's was all about. Bad hair, clothing and acting. Get this movie just for those reasons. If you grew up in the 80's you should feel like you are walking down memory lane.