Directed by Robert Greenwald from a script by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel, Xanadu stars Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly and a Jim Morrison mannequin that's broken out of Tussauds to pursue the acting dream. The film opens with a young artist tearing up a sketch in frustration. His scraps of paper are borne on the California breeze to an epic dayglo mural depicting nine fetching young ladies. They are the Muses.
The Muses then come to life and emerge out of the painting, in a blaze of less-than-special effects, to the immortal accompaniment of the Electric Light Orchestra. One of the Muses is Olivia Newton-John. The Muses are dressed in off-the-shoulder tiered pastel midi-dresses – think shepherdesses in Ancient Greece, as imagined by one of those Halloween shops called something like 'Party Delights' that sells knock-off Austin Powers outfits labelled '60s secret agent'. The Muses perform a kind of contemporary ballet through a miasma of fluorescent lasers. It is as if the Anthropologie summer collection got stuck in the mainframe in Tron. Raed more click here
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