Welcome to Queerty’s latest entry in our Queerantined: Daily Dose series. Every day as long as the COVID-19 pandemic has us under quarantine, we’ll release a suggested bit of gloriously queer entertainment designed to keep you from getting stir crazy in the house. Each weekend, we will also suggest a bingable title to keep you extra busy.
The Camp Out: Can’t Stop the Music
We don’t know about you, but our total lack of a social life with our queer siblings has put a massive pall our lives. The solution: wild and very gay romp through New York on the eve of the 1980s, starring the Village People. Can’t Stop The Music takes the band and their hit tunes like “Macho Man” and “YMCA” and blends them into an old-style Hollywood musical, dramatizing the rise of the band. A very twinkish Steve Guttenberg stars as a DJ with a knack for writing music, but no singing voice. He and his roommate, the model Sam (Valerie Perrine) assemble the Village People as their ticket to stardom. Or something like that. Can’t Stop the Music isn’t a movie to watch for plot, but for the music of the Village People, and for the outrageous ridiculousness of it all. A pre-transition Caitlyn Jenner also stars in this gloriously awful campfest, best enjoyed with a tall bottle of liquor on standby.
Streams on Amazon, iTunes, VUDU & YouTube. Also available on a special edition Blu-Ray from Shout Factory.
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spunkfunker
The only good thing about that whole fiasco was Gimmie a Break by The Ritchie Family!
dannyboi2
Memories…
johncp56
yes it was a huge bomb, only good memory we did our hollween at the plce that filmed the dace sene here In SF
MelchiorGabor
Macho men in a gloriously awful musical? I think Sherry Pie is casting the remake.
johnnymcmxxx
Awful movie and if you want to watch it on Amazon, it’s a rental and not a free Prime option. If any piece of crap should be free, it’s this steaming heap.
johncp56
LOL yes
MacAdvisor
The party at the end of the movie and shown at the end of the trailer was held at the Galleria Design Center in San Francisco and was a real party. I was newly out and newly arrived in San Francisco at the time and thought I had died and gone to heaven at that party. There was hours and hours of filming first, which, weirdly did not have any music, but we were to look we were dancing, but then, after the filming wrapped up, they let the party rip and it was a smash. A friend was in a bit part in the swimming pool sequence and got invited. He brought me. The movie is truly, horribly awful and complete camp, but I love it and even have the album on vinyl. It was directed by Nancy Walker, of all people. She played Ida Morgenstern, Rhoda’s mom, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show What a way to end the 70s!
radiooutmike
Don’t forget Rosie!
sonic_source
I clicked the link, watched the preview, and it gave my PC the clap.
robertkalin
OMG. Nancy Walker directed this?
Patrick
Terrible film but great eye candy, wonderful music & some fun dance numbers!