Footloose (1984) [Blu-ray] [1986] [Region Free]

This review is for the German release Blu Ray edition of Footloose (1984).The box is a slimline USA style.The cover has a large green certification symbol on the front but the cover is reversible without the symbol on the other side.The spine has Footloose in English and Paramount logo.After the disc is inserted you get the Paramount HD logo and then a choice...The choice is which language. If you choose English the disc Menu is in English and the soundtrack.The disc is exactly the same as the UK edition.I am really pleased I bought this as it is a lot cheaper than the UK edition.

It's hard to imagine what effect this very 80s film has on young people now, but if you were the age of the characters back in 1984, it exerts an irresistiible pull, right from the very 80s pop on the soundtrack, the clothes, the hairstyles, and a certain energy without edge. The world seemed a more naive place, even though the banning of dancing in public seems unusual, as has occurred in Bomont ... Kevin Bacon (Ren) arrives from Chicago and tries to overturn the ban, gets romance with the very pretty preacher's daughter (Lori Singer), gets a best friend in Chris Penn, who he teaches the dance moves to, and locks horns with the preacher himself (John Lithgow). It's a measure of the skill of the film that the Rev. Shaw Moore is drawn with some subtlety, being very opposed to book censorship, and actively stopping the burning of titles at a local school. Behind his support for the dance ban is a personal tragedy that the film blends in very well to the story about the kids in their last year at school. The dance sequences are very enjoyable, Bacon and Singer look superb, and Chris Penn is also a complete winner - it's the film to bring out the winner in you ...

This took me down memory lane: Kevin Bacon, where it all started! Footloose (this version) is such a happy, feelgood movie and who knew Sarah Jessica Parker also featured? Wanted to watch something easy on Boxing Day and give my grown up kids a taste of my movie childhood - I think they even thought it was cool! For all you 80's kids definitely give this a whirl again.

Catching up on 80s and 90s 'classics'. Never watched this before but glad I did (much better than Dirty Dancing in my view). Quite an 'old-fashioned' storyline - could perhaps have been more realistically set in the '50s (or even '30s), but perhaps that's what bible-belt America was like. Kevin Bacon and John Lithgow both excellent.

This used but like new dvd film was great. I'd only seen this film once many years ago so it was great now being able to watch it whenever I want.

My dvd came very fast, absolutely love this film as does my daughter...only problem i found was even though the dvd is new, it played up at the end of the film /: managed to sort it out so i could watch the end with out it playing up though and hasn’t played up again since so hopefully it was a one off :)

Some scenes are cut or not even included! Very fuzzy picture and the sound is diminished. Do not buy this fake!I have awarded one star because it arrived quickly.

Bought as gift, not had any negative remarks on it so can only assume it was liked, personally I prefer this compared to the remake