Memorable, crazy movie

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Watching this film, one can only marvel at the fact that some studio actually paid to have this film made! This only proves how much money must be floating around Hollywood. This movie fails in every aspect. Bad story, bad acting, bad singing, bad lyrics, bad dancing, bad costumes, bad sets, bad everything! This movie does succeed on one level however, it serves as an example of how NOT to make a movie. Excruciatingly painful to watch, and even more painful to listen to. I can imagine, far in the future, some archaeologist digging up the DVD of this movie, watching it, and then explaining to his students how everyone in 1994 apparently was gay. If you've been unfortunate enough to have purchased this DVD, at least you can use it as a coaster.

I have buddies who are MST3k fans, so I've seen some of the worst films of all time. Outlaw of Gor, Laserblast ,Killer Shrews, the utter garbage on the SciFi channel, and of course, Manos, Hands of Fate.I hate this movie more then all the above. There is simply no excuse for how bad it is. Look at the credits. Some of those people even had TALENT. It looks like when they started, the project had MONEY. But they squandered both.It's so outrageously painful to experience. The off-key singing. The falling apart sets and props. The ridiculous "special effects". The random editing, the sometimes missing audio. The COSTUMES! oh, the costumes...But the worst of course is the writing. It's not *bad* writing, it's EVIL writing. The writers hated you, me,themselves and all of humanity. They hated love, truth, and beauty. The lyrics and dialog of this film are crafted to try and keep you from seeing any other movie ever again. Or listening to music. Or letting someone speak to you.Don't watch this film. Unless you're undead, and face empty, joyless eternity as an animated corpse, then your life is too short to waste any of it on The Apple.

If hippiedom had taken root in the 1980s, this musical shows how things might have worked out in the 1990s. Of course you have to use your imagination here. The story describes a nightmarish society wherein everyone must eat, breathe, and sleep for something called "Bim", as promulgated by a capitalistic music mogul named Mr. Boogalow. This Mr. Boogalow rather conspicuously resembles the devil; he tempts the lead male and female singers with an apple, because their love song is a threat to his disco empire. I'm not quite sure what "Bim" refers to, except maybe the perpetuation of disco dollars, along with big bucks for bizarre costumes and garish makeup, of which the film has tons.The entire production is so overdone, so excessive, so lacking in subtlety it's laughable. But there is a worthwhile message here. And that's the idea that people are easily manipulated to become slaves to greed and superficial images; that part of the future the film got right.As for performances, George Gilmour, the lead male, can sing but can't act; Catherine Mary Stewart, the lead female, can act but can't sing; they make a dandy duo. Songs tend to be uninspired and repetitious; the first musical number is awful. But I did like "Cry For Me", toward the end.Others have described "The Apple" as the worst musical of all time. I wouldn't know, since there are many musicals I have not seen. But what is certain is that this film is quaint, to say the least. It's a historical film curio, a cinematic time warp back to another era when disco was king, and Reagan was just an American actor trying to be a President with capitalistic ideas.

In this case awful means excellent, so the scale is reversed. This is one the most ill-conceived musicals I have ever seen or heard of. The songs are gloriously bad, yet somehow catchy in a deodorant commercial sort of way. I love this dang movie. If you are in the LA area, the New Beverly is showing it on a double bill with another fantastic so-bad-it's-good movie Plan 9 from Outer Space...which is like the most famous and fantastic bad movie of all time. These types of "anti classics" are so fun to watch, you can't take your eyes off the screen wondering what the filmmakers were thinking. Especially with The Apple, cause it's a pretty big budgeted affair. Too bad they did not try to get people who could actually write a song. Well, too bad for the producers, but not today's audiences. Anyway like I said, it's at the New Beverly in LA on January 30th with Plan 9...I will be there for sure. Awesome awesome awesome....