Toomorrow |
UK • 1970 • 95m •
   • Directed by: Val Guest. • Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Benny Thomas, Vic Cooper, Karl Chambers, Roy Dotrice, Imogen Hassall, Tracey Crisp, Margaret Nolan, Roy Marsden, Carl Rigg, Maria O'Brien, Stuart Henry, Kubi Chaza. • Music by: Hugo Montenegro.     A group of students pay their way through school by forming a pop band. Organist Vic Cooper has invented an instrument called the "tonaliser", the sonic vibrations from the invention causes an extra-terrestrial to beam up the group to entertain the Alphoid population.
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Review:
Olivia Newton-John is lovely here, not yet having made her breakthrough in music or films, as the sole female member of a young and very ambitious music band called "Toomorrow" (oooh, groovy!) Their happening tunes are picked up through radiowaves by an extraterrestrial race who are desperate for "new audio vibes". The aliens then embark on a sinister mission...to "kidnap" the band in order to interrogate them for the secrets of their unique "vibrations".
Chock full of twee but catchy bubblegum music interludes, "Toomorrow" was possibly designed to create a public introduction to the manufactured band of the title, a la THE MONKEES (hmmm....I assume Miss Newton-John is not displeased that this marketing strategy failed).
Neither especially satisfying nor entirely unappealing, "Toomorrow" is mostly watchable from a hindsight of four decades as a novelty...a film of its time which nostalgic types might find amusing. Too, it features some fairly decent special effects for a lower-berth picture of 1970.
Review by EyeAskance from the Internet Movie Database.
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