Footloose Reviews

Movie Reviews

• you can turn the volume down, but you can't turn the radio off

  by Gabe Toro [indieWIRE ]

• the only light relief in a drama which is more about a community dealing with death

  by Francesca Rudkin [nzherald ]

• the obvious plot gets in the way of some terrific dancing

  Review rate : B by Harveycritic [Movie Web ]

• the dusty old town has been made even worse by the recession

  by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• since accents, music and dance styles are fairly one-note

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• over the newer version is in the emotional quality of the acting

  by Kenneth Turan [Los Angeles Times ]

• move your feet and hum along

  by James Rocchi [MSN Movies ]

• more colorful film, but his cast isn't nearly as memorable

  by Jake Coyle [Associated Press ]

• learn how to hand over the dance floor to the next generation

  Review rate : A- by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]

• harmless as far as it goes, but on the dance floor and off it never goes nearly far enough

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• film's climactic brawl was better with Lou Gramm hitting his proverbial sweet spot

  by Janey Goulding [Den of Geek ]

• as cornball as the original, but it's also just as exuberantly entertaining

  by Alonso Duralde [The Wrap ]

• admirable and dramatically effective

  by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]

• a critic steeped in cynicism can clap along to the disreputable, danceable seductions

  by Richard Corliss [Time Magazine ]

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