I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

How can you not love this movie? It's a super classic with real acting and it's original.

This film is great for the most part. Pretty good acting in most scenes, a pretty great story, great soundtrack, great setup, etc. It's good, but good lord, it is SO cheesy. I mean, seriously. Some scenes in this film are so corny, that it's almost cringe-worthy. On top of that, some scenes can come off as more hilarious due to how corny they are. While the acting is good for the most part, a few actors/actresses kind of exaggerated with their teenage mentality, which was hilariously off putting. Besides all that, I greatly enjoyed this film and I think it's gonna be a permanent staple in the filmography of Kevin Bacon's. I recommend this film to those who like to dance and/or to those who are die-hard 80s fans. Because besides it being extremely cheesy, it's actually a great film.

Footloose is the reason why the 80's became such a hit there were so many great movies back then and this one is no exception i do like Kevin Bacon and he was really good in this movie and the dance scenes were really good performed and directed there's also some fight scenes and pretty much the final fight in the movie was the best i mean boot in the face. Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie i think a 59% or something and i try to understand how do they hate movies that they turned out to be Classics on todays standards? Critics even hated The Shining and Predator and even IMDb gave it a 6.5 i mean common? it's nowhere near that bad it's a great great movie.

Either I missed the boat on this one, or it's really as superficial as "Flashdance". "Footloose" has that packaged-for-MTV feel to it and the rest is cartoonishly serious. I dig Lithgow, but his character's turn from pained fascist to sympathizer is awful. Between the book-burning scene and the spirited game of tractor chicken (set to "I Need a Hero", sheesh), this gets pretty silly. What was odd is that usually movies are able to pull off teenagers with older actors, but everyone looked way too old here.This is a soundtrack movie all the way, and Loggins is calling the shots. But I'd rather just have the album.5/10