# \[del\]Can't\[/del\]PLEASE Stop The Music! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058 "2013-07-09T17:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/21 "2013-07-10T05:40:26Z")
A bit of an outlier, but no one has mentioned [At Long Last Love](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Long_Last_Love) (which probably means you haven’t seen it, for which you should be eternally grateful). A couple of quotes from the reviews: > [@](#): > > This Cole Porter coloring book, mounted with great expense and no taste, is one of those grand catastrophes that make audiences either hoot in derisive surprise or look away in embarrassment. > [@](#): > > This foolish attempt at re-creating the lush musicals of the 1930s offers fabulous art deco sets, memorable Cole Porter songs, and slick production values, yet it goes down like a stricken elephant. There’s a still which I haven’t been able to find in which the four leads — Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn and Duilio Del Prete (remember him?) — are lined up doing something that kinda sorta resembles a can-can step. Which is somewhat marred by the fact that their feet resemble a sine wave far more than a straight line. Cole Porter supposedly came up with the title song to take his mind off the fact that he was pinned under a horse which had fallen on him and broken his leg. That should have been a Sign. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/22 "2013-07-10T05:45:00Z")
Does \*The Jazz Singer \*count as a “musical”? Oh, not that one. The [1980 one.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Singer_%281980_film%29) With Neal Diamond. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/23 "2013-07-10T06:29:20Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > _Seven Brides for Seven Brothers_. Oh, and I suppose you’re going to throw in our faces how rapey it is with a song glorifying historical rape makes it somehow ’ ’ bad ’ ’ . Actually, when put that way… I liked the dancin’. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/24 "2013-07-10T07:38:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > This star-studded monstrosity was filled with “acting” that wouldn’t have passed on The Electric Company, and the storyline was Frankensteinian. You mean [The Electric Company](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066651/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast)that featured the likes of Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno, Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel and Bill Cosby? Um, you didn’t mean to _endorse_ Sgt. Pepper, did you? To save some of you the trouble: If your nine year old self thought [Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077788/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)is a great movie with fantastic heros, scary villains and awesome special effects, treasure that memory and DO NOT WATCH. Also, you should owe [Marley23](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=368451)a beer. ---
**Author:** ![ruh-roh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ruh-roh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruh-roh)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/25 "2013-07-10T16:46:55Z")
Close behind Sgt. Pepper in the “big time rock music to lousy musical” category would be the 1975 adaption of “Tommy”. eeeuuuuu… too many beans. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058/26 "2013-07-10T16:52:53Z")
After _Grease_, the producers figured they could make a franchise out of it, possibly running for a decade or more with a new film every couple of years. Then came _Grease 2_, and it skidded into the wall and crashed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-cant-del-please-stop-the-music/663058.md?page=1)