This morning, I was channel surfing on TV and came across "The Full Monty" and just started watching it. I looked around the DVR program guide to see what was coming on later and I noticed a show on AXS TV (never noticed the channel before) that was on today that said it was a musical, so I recorded it. It's called
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life. It's a live production that stars and wa executive produced by David Hasselhoff and features songs from the 80s. Here's the description from the website:
The Hoff, plays Ross, a hilarious hedonist. He’s Ibiza’s top 80’s DJ who doesn’t realize a new decade has dawned, disco is out, a new club scene is in.
He tries to keep up with the times and with Mandy, his new younger girl-friend (Kim Tiddy, from ‘The BillHollyoaks’), but matters are complicated when his teenage daughter Penny (Stephanie Webber From TV’s ‘The Voice’) arrives to stay. Father and daughter haven’t seen each other for three years, since a messy divorce. No longer a demure school girl, but a wild child who quickly falls for Rik, the holiday rep (Shane Richie Junior).
It’s the story of two generations colliding, as a badly behaved parent, tries to control a wild child teenager! This hilarious hit fest is also a touching father and daughter drama, set against the holiday island background of Ibiza!
Firstly, it's not funny in the least. Secondly, no one (especially "The Hoff") can act, at all. The singers (except "The Hoff") have good voices but it's just a big giant mess. The songs make no sense and the "book" is a joke, and not in the good way. I wonder if they wanted to make something like "Mamma Mia" where the audience would like the music and forgive everything that's lacking.
Avoid this like the plague!
