Footloose Reviews
Q Network Film Desk
reignited the youth genre with the dynamics of music video aesthetics and has remained a cultural touchstone ever since
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Common Sense Media
A dated rebellion tale.
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| Original Score: 3/5
eFilmCritic.com
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticEssential to the result is young Kevin Bacon, superb in the lead part.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Herbert Ross directed this odd but reasonably effective blend of rock music and didactic melodrama.
Flipside Movie Emporium
An 80s milestone, for better or for worse... and a key link to any game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
| Original Score: 3/5
Spirituality and Practice
A lively and entertaining youth drama about the coming of change in a repressive small town.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
OK teen flick that time has treated kindly.
| Original Score: 3/5
Film4
Only the most cynical would never admit to tapping their toes to Loggins' title track.
About.com
I know it's a classic, but I wanted more dancing. Great hair though.
| Original Score: 3/5
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Austin Chronicle
The kids fight for their right to party in this hokey song-and-dance story.
Kalamazoo Gazette
primarily remembered as the "dance movie" that made Kevin Bacon a star, but it's a good deal savvier than it seems on the surface.
Flick Filosopher
For sheer, silly fantasy, Footloose can't be beat.
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| Original Score: 6/10
eFilmCritic.com
After a while you kind of go, 'Y'know, this isn't actually all that bad.'
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| Original Score: 4/5
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
For such an iconic dance movie, Footloose is an odd bird of a movie with surprisingly little dancing.
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| Original Score: 3/5
