Xanadu Hellfire

As I stumbled upon this 2022 fantasy movie here in 2023, and opted to watch it, I had actually never heard about it. The movie's cover was definitely an eye catcher, because it had a very 1980s cheesy vibe to it. But I have to say that the cover worked, because it made me interested in the movie.

And as I started to watch "Xanadu Hellfire", it was pretty obvious that it was a low budget movie. And not of the great kind. Nay, writer and director Justin Armao managed to concoct a very cheesy script for the movie, and you don't ever really buy into the concept of the storyline, which makes sitting through "Xanadu Hellfire" quite the ordeal.

The acting performances in "Xanadu Hellfire" were dubious at best, especially with a bunch of the younger performers being unable to stop up and look directly into the camera throughout the course of the movie. Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie. And that is usually something I enjoy when I watch a movie, but it just didn't work out for me in this movie.

The costumes and props were low budget and low key. It permeated low budget production of the bad kind. And I have to admit that I was laughing several times throughout the course of the movie because of the laughable costumes that felt like something purchased off of Wish or AliExpress. And as for the dystopian Earth in the future, I was amazed with how clean and spotless everything was, from the people to their clothes. It just didn't come off as being believable.

"Xanadu Hellfire" is a pretty bad low budget movie, which feels like something that was made by a group of Live Action Roleplayers borrowing their father's digital video camera. It made for a rather disappointing viewing experience.

My rating of "Xanadu Hellfire" lands on a two out of ten stars.

Nice fun little picture. Very cheap and kind of sloppy in parts but that's what you get with little indie pictures. The lead(the girl not the lady) is clearly in cheer or dance(its dance, I checked) which is great. We love seeing dancer girls in cheap indie pictures. The comic book props look good, at least the exteriors, it certainly duplicates that era of Marvel.

Scenes without one the leads(Xanadu or Ruby) not so is good. Is nice Xanadu always has belly show in her costuming. But Ruby never shows her belly even though she's a dancer and always shows belly. We need more trashy indie movies with little dancer girls barefoot(actually Ruby is barefoot in a scene but that's a continuity error, she's wearing socks in the previous shot) and showing belly.

But there is this weird scene where the lead has a dollar in her hand for the swear jar like she's gonna say a cuss, puts it in but doesn't say a cuss.

Oh, yeah and the girl playing Becky is real cute too.

My my, didn't the fancy dress shop do well.

In no particular order.- The one thing I will give this movie credit for is that it is very self aware. It does at least know that is a micro budget, fantasy nonsense flick that doesn't take itself too seriously.

The acting is terrible. Sorry boss ladies, back to acting school.

The script and plot are, well, mostly harmless is is the polite way of describing it.

The editing is terrible. The direction is, first day at film school-bad. And the the least said about the cgi, the better.

All this being said, it is fun. Silly, really stoooopid fun. Best watched with a crate of anything that isn't Bud Light.

And this is one of those films. I had the pleasure of meeting the man who put this together and am so glad to watch the movie. It is definitely lower budget but looks and feels amazing for it. It's cheesy in the best way and serious when it needs to be. I will be showing this film at several parties coming up and it is an instant classic in my book. Can't wait to see the Bloodsucka Jones movies tonight!! Hearing the backstory of how this is almost an ode to the original Xanadu only added my instant joy as that is one of my favorite films. The kids cussing in here only adds to the delight but it is very appropriate and I've heard many kids in my teaching career say much worse. Keep up the good work and I'm hoping there is another new one next year for me to enjoy. Thanks so much for a great evening!!

Script: The film has a lot of comedy, it's funny and fun to watch, I thought it was really good, because even though it has a lot of comedy and funny parts like the employee at the hamburger store, and also the owner of the store who is extremely funny, he There's a cool part like her learning to fight to become a warrior

In fact, the master who stays with her has knowledge of martial arts through the movements and blows she applies, and this makes the film look more serious at this point, showing the development he had to become a warrior, which is actually interesting. Because the film addressed this and didn't just leave it open, like a warrior who exists in the future and went back in time

The friendship between Xanadu and Ruby is really cool, it's a fun and cool thing to watch, this bond that was created between the two.

Actors: Cast is good and I found it interesting, Macy Minear suited her character, and seemed very natural to me, Maureen Kedes did incredibly well and is important because she has a great history as an actress The entire cast is well balanced, and actually manages to be more natural on stage.

Filming: The special effects are good, and I got a really cool type of filming, the construction of the film at a certain point and background music ends up defining the scene that will be, like our beginning that gives a feeling of action and adventure, in some parts as a family film and other parts focused solely on comedy.

Fun and cool to watch, very good.