A feel-good movie with a fun little story and good music. I love the '80s in movies so that helps as well.
Quite the iconic Kevin Bacon role and deservedly so! An incredibly well rounded film that I enjoyed start to finish. I can understand why they made a reboot, but this one really didn't need it with how well this holds up nearly 40 years later.
Rating: 3.5/5 - 8/10 - Would Recommend
In a quiet town, a young man from the city and his music scandalize.
“Footloose” had one of my favorite soundtracks, nearly everything charted on the Top 40. And the Dolby 5.1 mix of the songs on the movie sound WAY better than the released soundtrack. You can especially tell with the way all the vocals are spread out across the soundstage.
Good movie, great songs!
A great story about a town where everyone has sticks up their butts.
The soundtrack is great. The dance scenes are fun. Everything else is kinda meh. I thought it would be better with how relevant it is in pop culture.
Oh man, that Ariel is no damsel in distress. And Ren is about the most likable character I've seen in an 80s movie. I love this couple and I love everything about this entire movie. It's timeless.
Much better than the remake!
Wow. This is 50 shades of bad. I actually thought it was bad because I didn't pay attention in 84. It's 2017 now and it's full of nostalgia and great music but nobody can tell me it's a good movie. This makes The Goonies look like The Godfather.
Sometimes you just have to dance even if you're not allowed to. Whilst I quite enjoyed the lively 80s soundtrack I found the story itself to be a bit flat, predictable, and boring. There could have been a better ending as well as I felt that it left a couple of loose ends.
Is this town crazy or what?Best starting credits ever and Ren is one of the best male characters in this kind of a movie. And great hair too!!!
Did NOT need a remake!
Review by drqshadowBlockedParent2024-04-29T14:19:01Z
Hip teen Kevin Bacon moves from the big city to a podunk town in the sticks, where he’s shocked to learn that dancing has been forbidden. The absurd legal prohibition frustrates his fellow high schoolers, but they find other ways to act out. Particularly Ariel, the preacher’s daughter, a would-be angel who rebels against her ultra-conservative upbringing by sleeping around and risking her life in a string of dumb stunts. Bacon’s boundless confidence and earnest manner nets him plenty of friends around the school, and the romantic attentions of Ariel, but also waves red flags in the community. Doubly so when he speaks out at a council meeting and organizes a senior prom, complete with rock music and dancing, at a grain mill just outside city limits.
This one kept surprising me. It skips most traps of the silly, stereotypical ‘80s high school comedy and delivers an impressively thoughtful, level-headed take on the generational divide. Bacon’s character is a smart, personable, even-tempered sort who has no trouble forming lasting friendships and possesses the self-assurance to call out his peers when they posture and front. He pushes his friends to grow and his opponents to think again, shows maturity in tough situations and, goddammit, he really, really loves to dance. Intense, precise, balletic dancing. Especially when he’s all charged up with adolescent rage in an abandoned warehouse. Even the hard line preacher / councilman (John Lithgow), driving force behind the city’s anti-dance crusade, is afforded a layered, sympathetic back story. I wasn’t prepared for so much impartiality in a music-driven PG comedy from the heart of the ‘80s.
While its tempo is up, Footloose is a refreshing change of pace for an era that was flush with shallow screwball sitcoms. Though it provides an easy conflict, a catchy pop soundtrack and an embarrassment of montages, just like many of those contemporaries, its cast is less clichéd and more human. Most of the third act lingers in self-pity, an excessive drag, but it rebounds in time for the big finale and hits the credits at just the right time. Much better than I expected.