This film needs defending. It is nowhere near as bad as most reviewers make it out to be... AND the songs are wonderful and well above average. The so bad it's good tag is deserved, but only to a small degree. There are thousands of worse films around that don't seem to inspire such derision.
I have loved this film since I first discovered it in the mid to late 1980's on VHS. This was pre internet so information on the film was next to impossible to find. No record shops had ever heard of it and certainly no soundtrack was available. So for a good many years The Apple was my obscure treasure. I could never understand why other people didn't 'get it'. Rocky Horror was a cult hit, why not so with this film?
As for the music, some of the songs are really quite beautiful. The best of them is 'Cry For Me', but 'Universal Melody'& 'Child Of Love' are also beautiful melodies.I am sincerely baffled how anybody can say the music is horrible. At the very worst some of the lyrics may be schmaltzy but the songs are definitely not bad. When I read that audiences at test screenings had thrown their free copies of the soundtrack at the screen I almost wept. I would have treasured a copy of the OST. Thankfully now I have my own copy.
The Apple is now available on blu-ray which I never dared hope for years ago. I am so glad that others appreciate this gem as much as I do. If you haven't seen it, approach it with an open mind. See & hear it for what it is... a great musical with terrific songs.
Also Catherine Mary Stewart is not only one of the best looking women in the world, she also seems to have a winning personality.
Review of The Apple
