What if they declared a cultural revolution and nobody came? That’s pretty much the situation with CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC, the movie that was supposed enshrine disco as the musical trend of the eighties and instead wound up being the genre’s epitaph, not to mention destroying the careers of close to anyone involved with it. Purportedly a fictionalized version of the formation of the music group Village People — if by fictionalized you mean completely divorced from reality and by music group you mean guys who can sing and dance while dressed up as Christopher Street stereotypes — and an opening volley in the ongoing political actualization of the homosexual community, even if no one in the film can gather the nerve to utter the word “g*y,” the film founders under the multiple curses of a director, Nancy “Ida Morgenstern” Walker, making her feature film debut despite the fact that she had never done a musical, stars — including Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine, and Bruce Jenner — with no particular talent for singing or dancing, and a script — for which producer Allan Carr took partial credit — that barely knows the definition of the words “musical” and “comedy” individually, much less put together.<\/p>\n
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