Old-fashioned musical of the kind where the intervals between musical numbers are slow, uninspired, lifeless, and bland, and where the musical numbers themselves are all of those things and worse. And the latter are hardly made better here by the electric music, the psychedelic color, or the ersatz-Disney animation sequence. Olivia Newton-John is cast as no less a personage than Terpsichore, daughter of Zeus, goddess of dance, although not so hot a dancer herself, and Michael Beck is the uninteresting love interest. Every once in a while a bone is thrown to Gene Kelly, and he pounces on it gamely ("Oh, I've been known to twinkle a toe or two," he says, twinkling an eye or two), but it is doubtful whether there will be enough of his admirers in the audience, or whether they will be in any mood, to applaud. Directed by Robert Greenwald. (1980) — Duncan Shepherd
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