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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Turner Home Ent
Salesrank: 52531
Released: June 3, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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Genre: Musicals
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 3-AUG-2004
Media Type: DVD
Description of The Spirit of '76:
A virtual pantheon of icons from the 1970s populate Spirit of '76, a 1991 homage of sorts to the decade of excessive, tacky design. David Cassidy plays an inventor from a drab, lifeless future that wants to send a team back to 1776 to retrieve the Constitution; a technical foul-up lands them in 1976 instead. You can imagine what follows: Crazy, funky get-ups and limp jokes about Watergate, self-actualization seminars, GM Pacers, streakers, and disco. Leif Garrett, Moon Zappa, Devo, Tommy Chong, Rob Reiner, and others make cameo appearances, as well as more contemporary personalities like Julie Brown. It would be charitable to assume that the filmmakers put all this together lovingly and didn't want to distract from the warm glow of nostalgia by making anything actually funny. Also featuring Olivia D'Abo, Geoff Hoyle, and members of the band Redd Kross. --Bret Fetzer
The Spirit of '76 Reviews:
Like totally love it! 
2007-12-09 - Okay this movie found its target audience, graduated from high school in May 1976. Of course reality at the time was not as saturated with all the camp which gets funneled into this movie, meaning 8 tracks were already a joke by the year 76 and I believe the "Pacer" had already gotten the "what were we thinking" tag line. Still it was a blast to revisit that time in this totally silly and enjoyable movie.
The Spirit Of '76 Review - by Laura Lambert 
2007-11-11 - I can honestly say, that I've not enjoyed a film as much as this one. David Cassidy was really great in the role of Adam-11 and it just goes to show that he can make fun of the seventies, not only that but also make fun of himself as well. I have never laughed so much in my life, I just loved the film and highly recommend this to people who didn't live through the seventies, a definate must for both David Cassidy and Partridge Family fans alike. If you loved David in the Partridge Family then you'll love him in this as well, the outakes and behind the scenes were great as well, and it was lovely to hear all those fantastic songs from the seventies which I'd forgotten about.
A silly but worthwhile time-waster
2007-08-18 - While it wasn't nominated for any Oscars, The Spirit of '76 is still a must-see. Three time-travelers attempting to visit the birth of our nation in 1776 wind up in 1976 instead. Much silliness ensues.
But the plot isn't really important. It's the cameo appearances by a whole bunch of stars, the broad visual gags, and the music that make this movie fun.
Sometimes this movie tries too hard, and some of the jokes fall flat, but if you're in the mood for a silly comedy about the 70's, you could do a whole lot worse than The Spirit of '76.
DON'T BOGART THAT (VERY) "GUILTY PLEASURE", DUDE (*A Haiku Review)
2007-05-08 -
Loud clothes! Fords explode!
Seventies: silly, zitful.
STILL want Susan Dey!
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
<"As a dog returns to his own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."
~ Proverbs 26:11>
The Sprit of Fun
2007-03-25 - Great movie. C'mon all the teeny bop idols of the 70's..
great music...and just a fun movie all around..probably already a cult classic.
