A music video that has a "Siamese Twin" of a "B" movie

Rating: 9/10 (1 August 2001)

Do watch the full-length version of this 1977 dance classic; it's a strangely muted John Travolta "vehicle" of a bunch of 70's cliches. It precedes the 1981 MTV phenomenon but showcases some excellent tracks of the Bee Gees' music and lyrics (including some great covers). The movie presents a strangely uninhabited urban landscape where whites rule the "roost." The plot and odd storyline are quite "B" in their haphazard domestic/gang fighting and abuse. The pathetic female co-star who is the object of sexual abuse is more or less a caricature and I am not quite sure who the leading lady is asserting her right to be -- partner or "trophy" ?? My evaluation is of course quite revisionist in nature but the great musical that has been "Siamese Twinned" with the Italian working family saga (complete with a "doubting Thomas" elder brother) needed some revision-ing of its own. Maybe Tim Burton's next project will be a Ricky Martin version of this classic 70's piece where he succeeds on a wave of New York Puerto Rican Latin musical frenzy. Or is that already so "last year" ?!?