This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

F you Eve. It's not bad enough you ate the apple, but now you "inspired" something even worse.Never heard of this? Don't worry; I'm sure the cast and crew hope you never will find out about it. And that's sad. As bad as this was, and it was TERRIBLE, it does look like the cast and crew did put their heart into it. For that, I, sadly, have to raise my rating from the easy 1/10 stars to 2/10 stars. But, don't be fooled; this should never be seen. Or heard.Set in the far-distance/past 1994, the world is run by the obvious devil and his gay entourage. Sign up with him, pay 50% of your "earnings," and, I guess, you'll live? And sing. Sing galore. But, wait! Alphie, the Adam of the story, wants to save his love from the evil crutches and……and I spent too much time on this already. It's an old and obvious plot even for 1980 and contains both awful songs and sets and images from the 60s despite being set in the 90s. Maybe they thought it'd all come back again. Let's hope not.True, I'm not a fan of musicals, and this didn't help much. Don't see this, please don't. For the love of all Electric Boogalow, heed my warning.***Final thoughts: Why did I watch it? Funny you shouldn't ask. I had two movies to catch up to eventually listen to that awesome bad movie podcast, How Did This Get Made? This one and Streets of Fire and since that one was first, I plugged that title into my Amazon Prime account. First hit: The Apple. Initially, I thought the title had changed, but upon research I learned it hadn't and though it was weird this would pop up instead of Streets of Fire, this was the other one I needed to see. So…what…the…hell.

"The Apple" is a more than just slightly eccentric late 70's/early 80's Sci-Fi musical with imaginatively choreographed sing and dance acts. It's a retelling of the biblical Adam and Eve story, niftily translated to the harsh futuristic times of music labels and talent scouting with all the complementary drugs, sex and false big money promises. The young and utterly naive singing couple Alphie and Bibi, representing innocence and curiosity, are lured into signing an exclusive record contract (the Apple), by the sleazy CEO (representing the devil) of BIM Musical Industries. The success of BIM takes on exaggeratedly large-scaled brainwashing proportions, with the obligatory wearing of visible BIM merchandising and the introduction of the daily BIM hour between 4 and 5pm, when everyone has to stop their activities regardless of what they're doing and start doing the BIM gymnastics. "The Apple" is a fun and ingenious musical, with numerous of original ideas and sometimes clever social criticism. The film has a pleasant interpretation of what the year 1994 will look like, with futuristic cars and everybody walking around in silver astronaut outfits. Occasionally this movie even reminded me of "Phantom of the Paradise" – which also deals with the music industry – and that is definitely a compliment since I personally consider that movie one of the most unique and exceptional cult movies of the seventies and even better than "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". The story becomes increasingly extravagant, with the appearance of a good shepherd, representing Jesus, who takes Alphie under his wings in the battle against hellish temptations. Heck, even God himself makes an impressive cameo, descending from the skies in a golden Rolls Royce! Catherine Mary Stewart is brilliantly cast as Bibi. She's a pretty, young and obviously vulnerable girl attracted by glamor and glitter, but eventually she chooses for the pure and honest values like love and modesty. Isn't that beautiful. "The Apple" is a cool and undeservedly underrated musical effort ripe for re-discovery.

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.

Never released in Australia, and we get every terrible film, I am now, in 2007, quivering with delight. My new DVD copy of THE APPLE arrived today and I gleefully shoved it into the player.... and it did not disappoint. More ghastly than I could have wished for, THE APPLE made in 1979 as the monstrously mashed together mix of TOMMY and ROCKY HORROR and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE and LOGANS RUN and FARENHEIT 451 and HAIR...with CANT STOP THE MUSIC campiness, the XANADU dancers, and ZIGGY STARDUST eyeshadow, frosted wavy hair and lyrics poached from the first 8 bars of quite a few Beatles songs as 'new' songs (as another comment noted: ended up sounding like jingles from deodorant commercials) THE APPLE is a film you must see, the make everyone you know see while you watch their reactions. It is more fantastic to own than ELECTRIC BOOGALOO or LAMBADA or SALSA put together! And I own all those too! THE APPLE is more berserk than all those film mentioned above, ground into fluorescent dust-chalk and blended with glitter and then swallowed... and the result the next day is what I saw on DVD. Made in an unfinished shopping mall in East Germany by mad Israeli mogul Mehaheim Golan from the famed Cannon Films shed, THE APPLE is c colossal collision of Eurovision and a projectile vomit. Read all the other comments, including the media ones... and then realize we are being kind to this film. It is deliciously worse than everything you will read. As Lina Lamont said in Singin in the rain:" I liked it!"... the irony in 2007 being that MGM sold that wonderful musical to Warners and now represent THE APPLE instead.