One of the great things about revisiting a film after any period of time is discovery: new details, new concepts, even new theories. In the case of FOOTLOOSE ... there comes multiple discoveries ...

| Feb 13, 2024

For those of us that remember when Footloose came out, this release is a walk down memory lane and offers a slight improvement from previously released version.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2024

It’s very, very silly, but, ahem, kind of fun.

| Jun 30, 2023

While Footloose is fun, it's not very good. Its story is a dud

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 13, 2021

I will always be grateful for the way this film has positively impacted my life.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 8, 2020

Footloose is elevated to something much more than a teen romance. It becomes a social parable about the dangers of extremism. Footloose is about what happens when you try to control people too much.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2020

These movies are produced only to promote album sales. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 10, 2020

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

Kevin Bacon moves like a machete chopping through the jungle.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 19, 2016

"Footloose" turns out to be a sort of Boy Scout version of "Flashdance," a carefully toned-down, overly respectable piece of schmaltz ...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 17, 2016

It dates itself in the best possible way for a little throwback kick.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2014

It's watchable only because the energetic cast does wonders with the banal story.

| Original Score: C+ | May 23, 2013

For such an iconic dance movie, Footloose is an odd bird of a movie with surprisingly little dancing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2011

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2011

A dated rebellion tale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2011

"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.

| Original Score: B | Feb 13, 2008

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

| Feb 12, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 30, 2007

Herbert Ross directed this odd but reasonably effective blend of rock music and didactic melodrama.

| Jan 30, 2007