Kira, a Greek muse incarnated on Earth to inspire people, helps Dan McGuire and an artist named Sonny Malone to meet. She inspires them to build a huge disco roller rink called Xanadu.
Xanadu has generally received mixed reviews.
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By Phil Hall (302) for Film Threat (5,156) on 04 Apr 1987
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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 08 Sep 2002
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Xanadu was released in 1980 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 563 reviews, giving Xanadu (1980) an average rating of 52%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 74%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 63%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Xanadu than critics were.
With a score of 52%, Xanadu is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1980, which stands at 58%.
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