Product Details

• Actors: Olivia Newton-John, Matt Lattanzi, John Achorn, Donovan Scott
• Directors: Brian Grant
• Writers: Brian Grant, Marcelo Anciano
• Producers: Scott Millaney
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: March 1, 1992
• Run Time: 53 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300181634
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #271,321 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OLIVIA -The pioneer in music video concept with PHYSICAL!, October 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Physical [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The music world's ultimate Diva "OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN", she rules! The Olivia of the 80's was wonderful for me! I was a teenager and she was it for me, no one before or since had mesmorized like she has. She is TOTALLY HOT and I still can't get enough of her.It started with the OLIVIA of the 70's, but boom! Then came the late 70's with GREASE and then the awesome "TOTALLY HOT" album! Then came XANADU in 1980 and then OLIVIA opened the doors wide when PHYSICAL came out! I was captured by her charsimatic charm and beauty! When PHYSICAL was first aired on ABC it was a groundbreaking event. No other artist had done that before,it was the beginning, it was 1981 and the MTV concept hadn't even started!Remember the song, "VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR" ? Well she was a huge radio star in the 70's and video just made her the biggest female superstar into a MegaSuperstar! It was to me the most wonderful time of my life, I had music and tv specials of my favorite entertainer and I was in heaven! I had been a fan of OLIVIA's since she first emerged in the 70's and she is still my favorite! With her movies, TOOMORROW, GREASE & XANADU, she then came out with a truly new wonderful concept with PHYSICAL, it's pure entertainment and she is so full of style and charm and you just can't help but melt looking at her beauty and that true angelic voice! PHYSICAL was a great song, the video was campy and funny and pretty risky for those days, the song itself was banned for it's suggestive lyrics, kinda tame for todays standards! But she was the first and the best and I can watch this video over and over again, I love LANDSLIDE, RECOVERY, MAKE A MOVE ON ME,SILVERY RAIN, THE DOLPHIN SONG,STRANGER'S TOUCH, the entire show is fabulous and I love it so much I have it on VHS & Laser Disc, I wish I had it on DVD!!!! I have all of OLIVIA's works on original VHS & LD! Now I'm patiently waiting to get them all on DVD! The only one I'm missing is SOUL KISS on LD, This I am still searching for. I have 4 original copies of SOUL KISS on VHS, haha... Watch this video for what good music was all about and about the joy it brings you and what music should be today! It's great music and video roll into one outstanding show!

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Important music history forgotten, February 24, 2000

By 

James J. J. Janis - See all my reviews

This review is from: Physical [VHS] (VHS Tape)

While everyone, to this day, goes on about how innovative and risque Madonna's videos are/were/whatever, almost no one seems to remember that Olivia Newton-John had already been there-done that and Frankly, in this reviewer's opinion, with far more style, cleverness and sophistication. Far before the advent of CGI and multimillion dollar video epics, it is quite astounding the amount of visual imagination and suggestion that these videos utilize. In one short hour, Newton-John spans a vast gamut of characters and genres that leaves one breathless. Where Madonna will frequently repeat certain themes or images for one or more videos, Newton-John is a chameleon. Where Madonna is basically playing variations on--how shall we say it?--a very loose woman, each incarnation of Newton-John is ac/dc jolt of change. Where one video has her carousing with dolphins, another has her in some weird alternative dimension singing about the environment. Where one has her wandering some Freudian nether world, another has her in concert singing to a character who will figure in the video that follows. Where Madonna toys with sexual themes with all the subtlety of a topless bar, Newton-John goes places few have tread before or since with an admirable maturity. One of the previous reviewers mentioned the homosexual theme touched upon in the PHYSICAL video. Maybe so but, in both PHYSICAL and LANDSLIDE as well as briefly in a few others, Newton-John seems to be strongly toying with S/M themes as well as concepts of female domination that are startling intense. With the possible exception of Pat Benatar's work, nothing like it has been done since. It is both amazing for it's time and in that it was being done by a woman who only a few years earlier was presenting herself as the squeaky clean country girl next door who honestly loved you. Yet it is all forgotten by those supposedly who pay attention to modern music.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Olivia---Sexy as usual!, November 22, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Physical [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a terrific video. It is definatly ahead of its time with the tecknology and the effects. From the sexy and funny "Physical" video to the innovative and catchy "Landslide" video.

"Physical" Excercise video where Olivia shapes up some very unfit men. At the end, she ends up with one of the fat ones.

"Carried Away" Olivia rolls around on a white carpet in a room full
of mirrors. Beautiful!

"Landslide" Olivia has a crush on a co-worker. She captures him and throws him into jail.

"Silvery Rain" Plays a politician, a drunk, many other parts. weird.

"Hoplessly Devoted to You" Depressed and alone in a deserted bar. She even cries, and you can sense the pain of loss.

These are reviews of just a few of the videos, but the whole thing is wonderful! Buy It.