Director: Nancy Walker
“Can’t Stop the Music”: BOTTOM LINE: Jack Morell (Steve Guttenberg), an aspiring composer and DJ, wants to break into the music industry. His roommate Samantha (Valerie Perrine), a former model, helps organize a showcase to promote Jack’s songs. They gather a diverse group of performers—construction worker, cowboy, cop, Native American, biker, and soldier—who become the Village People. Samantha’s love interest, Ron, a conservative lawyer (played by Bruce Jenner), reluctantly gets involved in their wild world of disco. All this leads to a wretched let’s-put-on-a-show finale.
BEWARE! THERE IS NO CAMP HERE. JUST BOREDOM. UTTER BOREDOM
I WILL NEVER GET THIS TIME BACK AGAIN
Directed by Nancy Walker and produced by flamboyant impresario Allan Carr, “Can’t Stop the Music“ was supposed to be a glittering tribute to disco and a fictionalized origin story of the Village People. Instead, dated at its release, it was an enormous flop. Viewer beware! There is no camp here. Just Boredom. Utter boredom. I will never have this time back again.
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