Mighty Movie's Temple of Bad: <i>Xanadu</i>

Temple of Bad clerics Andrea Lipinsky, Kevin Lauderdale and I shed our vestments and put on our widest lapels to celebrate this landmark of singing, skating, and really glowy people, a movie with a theme song so infectious that you will never be able to shake it from your memory.
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Somewhere towards the end of the 1970′s, the entertainment industry got it into its head that the public not only wanted to spend their nights out roller-skating to driving, disco music, but that they wanted to watch people roller-skating to driving disco music -- so much so that there'd be no need for such niggling details as plot, character, or even coherent filmmaking.

Thus, Xanadu, a swirling maelstrom of bad ideas that somehow sucked Gene Kelly, Olivia Newton-John, The Electric Light Orchestra, The Tubes, and animator Don Bluth into its destructive vortex. (Oh, and Michael Beck is the lead, which, yeah, exactly.) Temple of Bad clerics Andrea Lipinsky, Kevin Lauderdale and I shed our vestments and put on our widest lapels to celebrate this landmark of singing, skating, and really glowy people, a movie with a theme song so infectious that you will never be able to shake it from your memory.

Not even if you wanted to.

Not even with a radical lobotomy.

All together now: XANADUUU! XANADUUUUUUUU!!!

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