Fresh
Essential to the result is young Kevin Bacon, superb in the lead part.
Variety Staff, Variety
Overview
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
55%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Herbert Ross directed this odd but reasonably effective blend of rock music and didactic melodrama.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Footloose is a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
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, New York Times
Rotten
A cynical and manipulative exercise with little feel for the teen culture it purports to celebrate.
Time Out
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