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

| Jun 30, 2023

"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

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

| Feb 12, 2008

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

| Jan 30, 2007

A cynical and manipulative exercise with little feel for the teen culture it purports to celebrate.

| Jan 26, 2006

Footloose is a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2004

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2003

The kids fight for their right to party in this hokey song-and-dance story.

| Mar 10, 2003