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Footloose (1984)

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56

Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 15

There's not much dancing, but what's there is great. The rest of the time, Footloose is a nice hunk of trashy teenage cheese.

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Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2

There's not much dancing, but what's there is great. The rest of the time, Footloose is a nice hunk of trashy teenage cheese.

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
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Movie Info

In this lively adolescent-oriented musical, a city kid attempts to adapt to life in an ultra-conservative backwater Midwestern town. Once there, he ends up leading the repressed teenagers into a rebellion against the town fathers, who have outlawed rock & roll and dancing. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

PG,

Drama, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts

Dean Pitchford

Oct 8, 2002

Paramount Home Video

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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (16) | DVD (36)

Essential to the result is young Kevin Bacon, superb in the lead part.

February 12, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment (1)
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Herbert Ross directed this odd but reasonably effective blend of rock music and didactic melodrama.

January 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
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A cynical and manipulative exercise with little feel for the teen culture it purports to celebrate.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Time Out
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Footloose is a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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Like the rest of today's video-happy teen-age entertainments, Footloose doesn't expect to be watched closely or taken seriously. It wants to fill the screen with catchy music and pretty kids, and this it certainly accomplishes.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
New York Times
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For such an iconic dance movie, Footloose is an odd bird of a movie with surprisingly little dancing.

October 10, 2011 Full Review Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

reignited the youth genre with the dynamics of music video aesthetics and has remained a cultural touchstone ever since

October 3, 2011 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk
Q Network Film Desk

A dated rebellion tale.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Footloose wasn't exactly a critical fave, but it didn't try to be hip and it had a relatively light touch, with recognizable human beings on the screen.

February 13, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

The movie features some good dancing -- not nearly enough, however -- and a fine, understated performance by Lithgow in a role that might easily lend itself to caricature.

January 30, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment (1)
TV Guide's Movie Guide

An 80s milestone, for better or for worse... and a key link to any game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

September 2, 2005
Flipside Movie Emporium

A lively and entertaining youth drama about the coming of change in a repressive small town.

March 31, 2005 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice
Spirituality and Practice

OK teen flick that time has treated kindly.

August 2, 2004
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Audience Reviews for Footloose

Kevin Bacons shining moment? I dont know but i still watch this one I catch it on TV. Fun movie.
June 29, 2008
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That rare brand of teen 80's movie that I don't especially like. Not sure why, I love the 80's, but this one never did anything for me...
December 12, 2007
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    1. Ren McCormick: Jump back.
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