Movie: Footloose (2011)

Hey everybody, let’s dance! Lets watch Footloose online and see the teen, male version of Flashdance inspired a love of dancing to bad pop music — especially if you could do the move where you run, jump, and slide on the dance floor on your knees. Cool, man! Footloose is one of those films that’s both appallingly bad and completely watchable at the same time, the story of a city kid (Kevin Bacon) who moves to a midwestern Bible Belt town with his parents — a town where pretty much everything is outlawed, especially dancing and rock music. Hell, there’s even a book burning now and then. Bacon’s Ren (great name, kid) immediately tries to change their backward ways — which include playing chicken with tractors and driving across the county line to go to the country/western bar — by launching a campaign for bands like Men at Work (sample dialogue: “Where do they work?”) and The Police. But there aren’t any good ’80s bands on this soundtrack. Instead it’s crap like Kenny Loggins (with the title track) and Denise Williams (remember her?). Despite a love affair with the grotesquely unattractive Lori Singer, Bacon carries this movie with an unending series of dance moves that have never before or since been performed by a heterosexual man. Who choreographed this nonsense? Paula Abdul? Where is DJ Scat Cat? Footloose has so much heart plus a legitimate message (that the Southern Baptist religion is really, really stupid) that it makes the film hard to dislike. But the movie is so sadly, sadly dated (what with all the break dancing) that it’s equally hard to fall for again. Kenny Loggins, save us!

Footloose poster

  • Director: Craig Brewer
  • Writer: Dean Pitchford, Craig Brewer
  • Release Date: 14 October 2011 (USA)
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • Genre: Comedy / Drama / Musical
  • Cast: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid, Ziah Colon, Ray McKinnon, Miles Teller, Ser’Darius William Blain, Patrick John Flueger, Andie MacDowell, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Jayson Warner Smith, Mary-Charles Jones, Josh Warren, Corey Flaspoehler, Brett Rice

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