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Title: An Overly Maligned Film
Review: The early 80s were a turbulent time, pitting the end of 70s innocence against a darker, more complex era to come. The last great hurrah for a film who's sole purpose was to remind us of the magic of music, dance and film is XANADU. Rather than revile it's eccentricities I find myself gliding through the cool, surreal ELO music and that singular voice of Olivia Newton-John's. This was a product of it's time. Absurd and trite? Possibly, but also a tremendous achievement against today's gritty urban music and pre-amped and overtly manufactured pubescent rock starlets and boy-teams churned out by Disney and their ilk. Music that soars and captures emotions, rather than pounding back-beats.
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