This musical is so bad, it's a work of poetry. Peter Frampton stars as Billy Shears, and the Bee Gees are his best buds and bandmates. Everyone who was anyone in the 70s is in this movie somewhere. George Burns as Mr. Kite. (He sings "Fixing a Hole" with a little soft shoe. Ugh.) Aerosmith is the Future Villain Band, singing "Come Together." Steve Martin plays an evil doctor. There's Alice Cooper, Tina Turner, Carol Channing, Bonnie Raitt, Helen Ready, Robert Palmer, Dame Edna, and on and on.

The premise is Billy and the Bee Gees are happy being the small town band, Sgt. Pepper's. Enter money grubbing B. D. Brockhurst, who lures the boys away with the bait of fame, drugs, and buxom women with enormous afros. Billy's girlfriend, Strawberry Fields, waits at home for her true love to come back, singing all the while of course.

Adventure ensues. The boys must save their hometown and Strawberry from the songless, grubby place that Mean Mr. Mustard has turned it into. This movie embodies all the freakiness of the seventies. It's Hollywood out of control.

This is truly the best movie for a bad day, perhaps because shows how bad things can get -- especially if you are Frampton and the Bee Gees in glistening military costumes floating away in a hot air balloon.