The Apple

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DanTheMan 2 @DanTheMan2150AD Sep 26, 2026 If you believe in God, be prepared to question his existence, for no compassionate deity would permit such a monstrously garish spectacle to exist. A gloriously misguided musical apocalypse, the Faust legend told through the lens of the music industry, The Apple single-handedly proves that no idea is too ridiculous to become a musical, especially in the hands of the legendary Cannon. A flamboyant collision of disco, Orwellian dystopian science fiction, biblical allegory and evangelical morality tale, told through the power of dance. An almost heroic exercise in bad taste, spectacular cinematic excess and tone-deafness, buried beneath enough glitter to illuminate a small city, taking all the elements you need to make the perfect cult rock opera yet proceeding to assemble them in the most horrendous way imaginable. True bad films carve out their own worlds, but The Apple seems to have come from another universe entirely, and God bless it for that. See more mark G @Mark_Alan_G. Jun 27, 2026 Jesus, this was catastrophically terrible. See more Tim R @trickert2002 Mar 15, 2026 This movie is bad. Really bad! It has the same vibe as Xanadu, the Bee Gees' Sgt Pepper movie and Phantom of the Paradise. If you've seen those movies you know exactly what I'm talking about. If you liked those movies, it stands to reason you'll like this one too; may God have mercy on your cinematically challenged soul! See more Randall J. @ranmar5153 Nov 17, 2025 I totally loved it. No different than some of the movies like it that make it big! See more Mark K @RT47085064 Jun 26, 2025 Ninetween eighty brought forth a new decade, Reagonomics, The Moral Majority and a pandemic. How fitting three of the worst films in history were released at the very beginning of the era. Xanadu and Can’t Stop the Music were more famous and expensive but The Apple has the distinction of being even more unwatchable than either of those two high profile misfires. Xanadu and Can’t Stop the Music are poorly scripted, badly directed, and feature unconvincing performances. Yet they at least have star power. The Apple is a futuristic musical set the distant 1994 (!) when a totalitarian government uses terrible disco style pop music to psychologically subdue the population until a group of hippies singing sensitive, mawkish ballads that the Carpenters would have rejected come to save civilization. That’s literally the story. There is no characterization, just archetypes speaking in deadpan, flat tone deft dialogue. Once the film starts confusion gives way to cringing. You almost feel bad for the cast but you as a viewer suffer the most. It is a hard watch. See more Marcus U @RT22960498 May 20, 2025 The Apple is a movie I would never watch again. It's a film about two girls moving from Canada to compete in a music festival. It's a musical where all the songs are forgettable and disregarded, in my opinion. At times, I was cringing, struggling to get through some parts. The characters have no personality to them, and the overall plot did not make sense. The film at times tries to portray a serious tone, but it clashes with the drawn-out, unnecessary musical numbers and the exaggerated costumes and sets. The acting also did not impress me, due to factors such as poor writing, flat-out bad acting and bad direction. The over-the-top musical masked the themes the director was trying to get across, and it just didn't work. See more Read all reviews

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