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Disco-trash at its very best
This is one of those wonderfully bad disco films that will appeal enormously to anyone who loves disco, but will repel everyone else. Made exclusively to cash in on the disco craze, TGIF is set on one night at a new discotheque. Donna Summer is surprisingly good in it, but it's hard to make much of an impact on the clunky script and the wilful overacting of almost every other cast member. The soundtrack is constant, a la "Carwash", a wonderful 70s film conventon that should make a comeback, and it was always the soundtrack that was the star of this film. Such a pity it's shamefully out of print at the moment.
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B-A-D and not in a good way
Hindsight is 20 20. When I was a young teenager and CHiPs and Charlie's Angels were actually part of the regular season on the networks, I accepted them as good television. To watch them now is painful (CHiPS) and nostalgic (Charlie's Angels - after all those women are gorgeous!). However, that still doesn't make them good.
Thank God It's Friday is bad in the same way those television shows are bad. In fact, the script and the film are more in line with what television shows were than what films were. It's cheap and silly and amateurish. The acting is terrible and the story is nonsense.
The running gags are worthy of One Day at A Time television show and nothing more.
Really, don't bother.
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Hey, Put A Smile On Your Face...
I'm giving THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY a generous 4-stars because it's on dvd. But the production value of the dvd is worth 2-stars (maybe even 1-star). And after such a long wait, you'd think there would've been more on this dvd than just the movie.
And the movie is the only thing you'll get on the TGIF dvd. No special features and NO SCENE SELECTION. All you can do is play the movie from the cheesy menu and that's it. How sad that is. And where did they get the ridiculous picture for the cover?
I know that this movie was not the commercial hit that Casablanca and Motown (record companies) were expecting, but for this release the dvd could've given fans a little more.
TGIF is a campy film about a Hollywood nightclub called the "Zoo" and takes place during the height of the disco craze in the mid-to-late 70s. The plot involves the transformation of the lives of several different people and their search for something magical, which all takes place one eventful night at the Zoo. Anyway, where SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER was a dramatic movie/story that happened to ride on the music wave of disco, TGIF was light and humorous and driven soley by the music.
At the time, TGIF was being marketed as the "Donna Summer movie" to try and captilize on Summer's meteoric rise as a singer...well sort of. The movie was produced by Casablanca (Summer's record label) and Motown (both record companies wanting to follow the success of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER), because they felt they couldn't miss with a movie featuring their respective artists, since they dominated the music scene during that decade. But Summer, though gaining traction as a charting artist, was yet to become the "disco queen." Her popularity exploded, coincidentally, around the same time when she had her first number one hit "MacArthur Park." So Casablanca and Motown marketed the movie as a Donna Summer film, even though it really wasn't. And you couldn't turn on a radio, during that time, without hearing the song "Last Dance" and the title song "Thank God It's Friday" (by Love and Kisses). However, Summer is only featured in a small supporting role and her on-screen time in the movie is less than 17-minutes (according to one biography), maybe even shorter than that.
But in those fleeting minutes, Summer is mesmerizing as the doe-eyed, unknown singer desperately trying to get the Zoo d.j. to play her record. She's hilarious in one scene where she starts singing badly along to "Love-to-Love You" while it's playing in the club, and she finally gets her big break on the "live" radio show from the disco that is supposed to showcase the Commodores. Summer really shined in that scene as she belted out "Last Dance" and became the perfect combination of beauty, talent, and energy; it's probably the most memorable moment in this movie. Of course there's also the performance of the Commodores, but Summer's eclipses it.
TGIF is not the best movie of all time, but there are moments of magic in it that sort of defined that era.
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a classic for the era
i remember this movie as a teenage girl of fourteen, and i enjoyed it then as i enjoy it now as an adult, i was so happy to see that it was on dvd, so i purchased it with "roller boogie", also a classic during the 70s theme times. it was in good quality and still pretty funny, and seeing jeff goldblum so young, was funny to see. all in all a good buy. if you like the music the cd is a good buy with the movie.
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Thank God It's On DVD!!!!!!!
Shame this is Region One ONLY (Donna's fanbase is WORLDWIDE!!!!!)
But nevertheless, plays in my DVD drive of my PC and great to have this film on DVD!
