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Breakaway Pop Hit: "Magic", "Suddenly", and the title song.
- "Magic" was a hit to the point where most people who have heard it have no idea it was originally from a motion picture soundtrack.
Critical Research Failure: Zeus and Hera claim not to know about human emotions. Y'know, the poster gods for Anything That Moves and Clingy Jealous Girl.
Cult Classic: This had the bad fortune to be made while disco was dying, and flopped as a result. These days it's a cult film with women who watched it on cable as young girls and gay men who liked the massive amount of camp, music, and the hopeful message in the movie.
Ear Worm: Horrifyingly.
Fan Yay
Periphery Demographic
So Bad It's Good: Despite the film's many flaws, it manages to be entertaining. As a double-bill alongside Can't Stop the Music (another disco musical that toplined the Village People), it inspired John Wilson to create the Golden Raspberry Awards. Perhaps a telling sign of the film's quality is the fact that he admits to re-watching it once in a while.
Special Effect Failure
Vindicated By Cable: The movie was trashed by critics but it picked up its core audience on pay cable channels.
- Especially in the early 80s era, when HBO (which until 1981 didn't even operate on a 24-hour schedule) had a very small library of movies to air.

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 * [[Fan Yay]]
 * [[Periphery Demographic]]
-* [[So Bad Its Good]]: Despite the film's many flaws, it manages to be entertaining. As a double-bill alongside ''Can't Stop the Music'' (another disco musical that toplined the [[Village People]]), it inspired John Wilson to create the Golden Raspberry Awards. Perhaps a telling sign of the film's quality is the fact that he admits to re-watching it once in a while.
+* [[So Bad It's Good]]: Despite the film's many flaws, it manages to be entertaining. As a double-bill alongside ''Can't Stop the Music'' (another disco musical that toplined the [[Village People]]), it inspired John Wilson to create the Golden Raspberry Awards. Perhaps a telling sign of the film's quality is the fact that he admits to re-watching it once in a while.
 * [[Special Effect Failure]]
 * [[Vindicated By Cable]]: The movie was trashed by critics but it picked up its core audience on pay cable channels.