Comments on: Can’t Stop the Music

By: cptn. howdy

cptn. howdy — Mon, 07 May 2007 03:45:07 +0000

that pic of glenn is my favorite piture in the whole world, and i can’t find and i want it to be where i can see it without using the dvd player

By: Nat Gertler

Nat Gertler — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:22:07 +0000

And relevant to this discussion, a Marvel Super Special of Sgt. Peppers was written and drawn but not released. (I happen to own a page of the art, by Perez and Mooney.) And there is something odd about a comics adaptation of a musical.
BTW, Super Special pages seemed to be in the cheapest original art piles for a while, which is how I got Severin Dragonlance, Simonson Close Encounters, and Colan-Palmer Jaws 2 pages. The Sgt Pepper page was $5 at auction. Bargains!

By: Michael G

Michael G — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:40:24 +0000

Yep, here’s the cover to Marvel Comics Super Special #17. The art team reads like a mishmash of anyone who was in the office at the time: J. M. DeMatteis (Script), Rich Buckler (layouts), Jimmy Janes (layouts), Mike Nasser (finished pencils), Brent Anderson (finished pencils), Joe Brozowski (finished pencils), Al Milgrom (finished pencils), Bill Sienkiewicz (finished pencils). It doesn’t list the inker(s). Then they had articles on the making of the movie, stars biographies, special effects, costumes, and more.

That series also adapted a lot of movies, including Empire Strkes Back, Conan, Blade Runner, Annie, Octopussy, Dune, Howard the Duck, Muppets, and Buckaroo Banzai, plus the Beatles and Kiss.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 11:54:23 +0000

I like Sgt. Pepper’s better, because I find the performers a lot more appealing and the music is, of course, much better.

I’ve wanted to see the Xanadu adaptation for all the backmatter, about the stores and licensing and such. But I’m weird that way.

By: Evan Waters

Evan Waters — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:30:24 +0000

There was a comics adaptation of XANADU?!

I’ll have to look for that.

By: Michael G

Michael G — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 06:02:23 +0000

I remember when this one came out (no pun intended). I have never made the effort to watch it on DVD, nor have I sought out Xanadu. How does it compare to the Bee Gees/Peter Frampton version of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”?

I might be the only person in the US who sought out a copy of the Marvel Comics Super Special adaptation of Xanadu, though, because Bill Sienkiewicz did some of the artwork.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:09:52 +0000

Lyle, you’re right, it’s not as enjoyable as some other guilty pleasures, and Xanadu is still one of my favorites.

Allan Carr was apparently some kind of promotional genius, and in addition to the BR tie-in there was a TV special and other deals.

By: Chris Galdieri

Chris Galdieri — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:16:23 +0000

I remember this was on at 2:30 in the morning the night I graduated from college. I was trying to pack my stuff up after much celebration with friends and family and whenever I couldn’t pack any more I’d sit down, watch some of the movie, and then decide packing wasn’t so bad after all…

By: Lyle

Lyle — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:56:16 +0000

I rented this one expecting to enjoy it, considering the plot and the way the movie frequently gets paired with Xanadu on bad movie lists. I found it failing to deliver on many different levels, it wasn’t very campy, the bad acting wasn’t bad enough to become enjoyable and the musical numbers lacked energy. Xanadu had some forward thinking in how it mixed the movie musical with music video style effects and angles (before music videos really got their style down, IIRC).

Whenever I hear about Can’t Stop the Music, I remember that Baskin-Robins had a tie-in with the movie with one-color fliers (that just showed silhouettes of singers and the title) and a flavor-of-the-month (IIRC it was “Can’t Stop the Nuts” which, in retrospect, hello). I was at that age when I tried to read everything I could so I read those fliers and kept asking to go see Can’t Stop The Music when it came to theatres. (My parents never had to deal with that request since it never made it to Honolulu — and I would have known since I had an obsession with the page of the paper where movies were advertised.) Looking back on that, I was really surprised by that partnership.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:56:34 +0000

During the audition? I like “Flaming James” during that scene, the guy with the batons on fire… There are so many strange things to talk about with that movie, that we’ll be here all day!

By: Barney

Barney — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:50:02 +0000

You forgot to mention the really strange, out of nowhere rendition of Danny Boy.