Footloose (1984)

Footloose jumps with spirit, dazzling dance numbers and an electrifying musical score. It portrays the timeless struggle between innocent pleasure and rigid morality, when city-boy Ren McCormick (Kevin Bacon) finds himself in an uptight Midwestern town where dancing - and therefore all youthful joy - has been banned. Ren revolts with best friend Willard (Chris Penn) and the minister's daughter (Lori Singer).

Running Time: 103 mins approx

Footloose (2011)

Get ready to cut loose! Boston teen Ren MacCormack (Kenny Wormald) relocates to a small southern town and gets a heavy dose of culture shock. On the heels of a tragic accident, Rev. Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid) bans loud music and dancing. Challenging the Reverend, Ren falls for his troubled daughter (Julianne Hough), shakes up the status quo, and revitalises the town.

Running Time: 109 mins approx

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First released in 1984, Footloose now enjoys the same sort of semi-ironic nostalgic cachet as John Hughes' contemporary schlock-fests about angst-ridden teens with silly hair. This is partly due to the fact that, as breathtakingly predictable kids-against-the-squares romps go, it's really pretty tolerable, but it's mostly because of the soundtrack. The songs that appear in the film--notably Kenny Loggins' infectiously vapid title track, and gale-force screecher Bonnie Tyler's excruciating "Holding Out for a Hero"--are possessed of an awfulness so monolithic that they have transcended their era and become reliable floor-fillers at 80s nostalgia discos all over the western world.

The plot, such as it is, sees the eerily androidal Kevin Bacon playing a hip rock & roll youth from the big city rebelling against the strictures of the conservative small town in which he finds himself living. Inevitably, he falls for the daughter of his nemesis, the local preacher (the latter, it has to be said, is played with some aplomb by John Lithgow, who very nearly wrings depth from a character otherwise straight out of the colour-by-numbers guide to movie-making). Inevitably, there are some dance sequences. Inevitably, the kids win out, and the grown-ups realise that maybe they aren't so bad after all.

On the DVD: Footloose can be watched on disc, should you so desire, dubbed in German, Spanish, French or Italian. There also subtitles available in pretty well every European language, as well as Arabic, Hebrew, Russian and Turkish. Other than that there are no extras. --Andrew Mueller --This text refers to the Blu-ray edition.

• Ilość płyt: 2
• Data premiery: 2012-10-15
• Aktorzy: Kenny Wormald,Julianne Hough,Kevin Bacon,Lori Singer
• Reżyser: Craig Brewer,Herbert Ross
• Format Filmu: PAL
• Napisy dla niesłyszących: Brak Polskiego,Angielski
• Napisy: Brak Polskiego,Duński,Holenderski,Angielski,Fiński,Norweski,Szwedzki
• Audio: Brak Polskiego,Angielski
• Dubing: Brak Polskiego,
• Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
• Czas: 216 minut
• Region: 2

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