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Beautiful, moving film.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

"Get down and boogie!!"This decidedly silly documentary actually has the gall to seriously suggest to the viewer that there's a whole lot more to the 1970's disco dance-craze than meets the eye.Believe it, or not - This ding-dong presentation actually goes so far out on a limb as to say that (are you ready for this?) the roots of disco can be traced all the way back to Nazi Germany. (Spare me!)Yes. Indeed. I do admit that there were some very entertaining moments spattered throughout "Disco's" 85-minute running time.But, generally speaking - This is a pretty laughable and decidedly dumb documentary for the most part - Arrogantly suggesting that disco actually improved the world (Oh? Really?) - And, that its invention was, of all things, masterminded. (Ha! Give me a break, already!)

Somehow entertaining documentary about the "Disco Revolution" in the '70's. It was something with subversive intentions, a secret political movement? The question makes sense only because mankind was at the top of the Cold War(but nobody mention this in the film). The truth is that everything was about free love and sexual liberation, including women liberation, black people liberation, gay liberation. And, most of all, was about Music, a very unique genre in the history of music. The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Thelma Houston, The Trammps, Chic, Kool And The Gang, etc., they are all heroes of the history of mankind, not only the history of Disco. And, the leader of all this, a guy called Giorgio Moroder, he is not mentioned at all. That's political, because he is not American, he was born in Europe, in Italy. He took what was best in American black music and rearranged everything and created what was called DISCO. He done it since 1970 in Europe, continuing with Donna Summer in Germany... Much the same as did Sergio Leone, reinventing the Western. And, you know what, I don't give a damn s..t about that "Disco Sucks" event, that did not killed anything, just the minds of those gathered there in that American stadium were dead. In what concerns me, DISCO lives on, is alive and healthy. In my mind, heart & soul.

This movie sucks. If you have a basic knowledge of the Disco era, this movie offers no new information but alludes to a new perspective which it fails to demonstrate and eventually abandons. The movie offers less info than a Wikipedia article about the origins of Disco, the first Disco hit, major disco DJs, producers, etc. It's like watching an infomercial for piles of Disco CDs. Skimming the surface of interesting information. with a twist. A weird framing device. The whole premise is that Disco was revolutionary for gays, blacks and women. So they have a gay, a black, and a woman acting as "the masterminds" while a kitschy voice-over explains their actions as though they were gods with a Disco based agenda. These are annoying characters and their purpose seems to be to support the claims made in Alice Echols' book "Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture." But the scholar Alice Echols comes across like a joke, with all the focus on her unsubstantiated academic over-reaching.It seems possible that the Disco era had a social impact, but calling it a "Disco Revolution" and adding that bullshit framing device is the filmmaker's cute way of saying, he's not sure he believes it.Highlight of the movie: interviews with Ronald Kool Bell and Nicky Siano.

Honestly, if you have an appreciation of the 70s, than you'll be very thankful for this documentary as much as I was. My parents grew up in this time period, so I grew up with them telling me stories and playing songs from that era. Writer and director, Jamie Kastner, did a great job in explaining how the American 70s was revolutionary. He explains how disco was the starting point to rock, techno and just about any other genre in today's society. After seeing this movie, it definitely makes me wish I could go back in time just to visit this music era and come back because first it's a quick turn around and secondly, it was all about anything goes, which is how I live my life!