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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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"Footloose" turns out to be a sort of Boy Scout version of "Flashdance," a carefully toned-down, overly respectable piece of schmaltz ... Feb 17, 2016 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
"Footloose" turns out to be a sort of Boy Scout version of "Flashdance," a carefully toned-down, overly respectable piece of schmaltz ...
Kathleen Carroll
Essential to the result is young Kevin Bacon, superb in the lead part. Feb 12, 2008 | Full Review…
Essential to the result is young Kevin Bacon, superb in the lead part.
Variety Staff
Herbert Ross directed this odd but reasonably effective blend of rock music and didactic melodrama. Jan 30, 2007 | Full Review…
Herbert Ross directed this odd but reasonably effective blend of rock music and didactic melodrama.
Dave Kehr
A cynical and manipulative exercise with little feel for the teen culture it purports to celebrate. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
A cynical and manipulative exercise with little feel for the teen culture it purports to celebrate.
Footloose is a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Footloose is a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly.
Roger Ebert
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 | Rating: 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.
Janet Maslin
There's a plot that would have been dated in the '50s. Hokey doesn't begin to describe the inanity, the tedium, the utter lack of originality in Dean Pitchford's script. Jan 3, 2018 | Full Review…
There's a plot that would have been dated in the '50s. Hokey doesn't begin to describe the inanity, the tedium, the utter lack of originality in Dean Pitchford's script.
Marylynn Uricchio
Kevin Bacon moves like a machete chopping through the jungle. Oct 19, 2016 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Kevin Bacon moves like a machete chopping through the jungle.
Josh Larsen
It dates itself in the best possible way for a little throwback kick. Feb 18, 2014 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
It dates itself in the best possible way for a little throwback kick.
Rob Vaux
It's watchable only because the energetic cast does wonders with the banal story. May 23, 2013 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
It's watchable only because the energetic cast does wonders with the banal story.
Dennis Schwartz
For such an iconic dance movie, Footloose is an odd bird of a movie with surprisingly little dancing. Oct 10, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
For such an iconic dance movie, Footloose is an odd bird of a movie with surprisingly little dancing.
Christopher Lloyd
reignited the youth genre with the dynamics of music video aesthetics and has remained a cultural touchstone ever since Oct 3, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
reignited the youth genre with the dynamics of music video aesthetics and has remained a cultural touchstone ever since
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