Roller Boogie
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Movie Reviews of Roller Boogie
Movie Review: Roller Boogie.... Rolling back for another generation!
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie brings back nostolgic times for me as a kid growing up in the late 70's and early 80's and all I can say is that I really liked it and enjoyed the great soundtrack that came along with the movie. If you like Nostolga and Camp this is the real deal and it is all good. I would say this is one of those movies that has a great Cult factor and is right up there with 80's films like Skatetown USA also in 1979, Breakin, Breakin 2 "Electric Boogaloo", Beat Street. They were all campy, great dance sequences and great music.
It will be good to see this movie in "WideScreen" for the 1st time and I am looking forward to that. See you on August 24th, 2004 to get my copy.
Peace!
Austin, Texas
Movie Review: Dance Craze Time Capsule
Summary: 4 Stars
Yes, corny dialogue and paper-thin cliched plot invloving corporate goons vs. innocent fun-loving teens, but unpretentious nonetheless. With sincere performances from Linda Blair and company, real roller disco dance sequences by the leads, period clothing, choreography and music (mostly ballads and disco), this movie is pure escapism! (Added later: Note to the one reader who didn't like this review: Please know when I say "pure escapism" I mean it in a GOOD way! This is a fun movie and recommended)Movie Review: rollerboogie
Summary: 4 Stars
this is a product i had been looking for for a very very long time. my biggest disappointment is that when i recieved it i couldnt play it as the dvd player i have doesnt recognise the disk/region. this also occurred with another item i had purchased. being new to the site there was not any available information warning me that this might occur. otherwise am very pleased with the itemsMovie Review: Ashamed to say I watched it twice in two days
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is a typical no-plot fad movie (think "Rad" or "Breakin'") but my wife and I couldn't take our eyes off of it. I'm actually thinking about buying it. The Beegees-wanna-be soundtrack is worth the price of the movie on it's own.
Mega cheese factor...
Movie Review: Hey! You Got Your Pool Party In My Flute Recital! You Got Your Flute Recital In My Pool Party!
Summary: 3 Stars
Oh the humanity!
I knew I was in trouble 25 seconds into the film when the credit "An Irwin Yablans Production" rolled up the screen. (Feel free to check out his other work.) It turned out I was right: this film is basically "Saturday Night Fever" with worse music and much, much worse writing: compared to "Roller Boogie," "Saturday Night Fever" is sedate and tasteful. The story is utterly predictable: pretentious Beverly Hills girl (Linda Blair) gets involved with a buffoon from the wrong side of the tracks (Jim Bray) who dreams of his future in roller disco at the next Olympic games. The writing is painful corny, so much so that it made me laugh out loud at several dramatically significant places. The film shows roller boogie uniting all parts of the socioeconomic spectrum; look for my favorite demonstration of this, which involves an enormous afro with headphones worn over it at all times.
Blair, whose horrible rich parents just don't understand her, want her to pursue her musical art at Juilliard and are dumbfounded when she yells things like "I'm a musical genius! What a drag! What a bummer!" Sadly, this is some of the better writing in the film. While Blair gallivants around with her seedy roller boogie boy toy, the film gets down to the plot (such as it is) involving a couple of mobsters who are also real estate developers who want to buy the roller disco from the owner, Jammer. He doesn't want to sell, but they threaten to burn the building down with the kids in it. Fortunately the kids have a plan to save the disco, which involves getting Blair's dad, a lawyer, to listen to their case at a formal flute recital at their palace. Unfortunately the two goons are there and are clients of Blair's dad, so the kids have to take matters into their own hands to keep the moguls from buying the roller disco. Mostly this plan involves turning the flute recital into a pool party, and Blair pouting.
Jammer decides to sell under the threats, which is so traumatizing to the kids that one of them becomes a Hare Krishna in one of the funniest scenes in film history. But wait! The kids discover that the afro headphones actually tape recorded the conversation threatening Jammer! What will happen? Only the funniest car chase in history. It's basically a couple of kids on skates versus a Cadillac. I especially enjoyed the part where our heroes decide to get towed by the very car containing the gun-toting thugs, but the use of a table to jump over the car in what must stand as the most pointless stunt of 1979 is my very favorite. Of course the kids win, Jammer keeps his valuable roller disco, and Blair and Bray go on to win a huge roller boogie contest. The ending is high on pathos, and is humorously staged around a large roller disco trophy. The whole last half of the movie made me think how happy Jammer must have been to keep his valuable roller disco, because that will never go out of style. He was obviously right to turn down millions offered by the real estate goons and live his dream.
This film is extremely difficult to rate, as I would actually rate it differently for different viewers: if you want to see a good movie, this is in sub-one star terrain, but if you want to see a camp classic in which every single frame has something to laugh at, this is off the charts at five plus stars. Since I have to make a choice, I settled on three stars as a kind of average. This film is truly dreadful, but nonetheless absolutely and ruthlessly entertaining.