Let's hear it for the boy!

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2006)

OK, so a town where it's illegal to dance makes no sense, but everything about "Footloose" makes it worthwhile. The plot of course has big city boy Ren McCormick (Kevin Bacon) moving to a small town where Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow) has banned dancing, and challenging this. Prior to watching this movie, I'd heard "Let's Hear It For the Boy" in a gym class, but I didn't know that it was used in this movie. Also starring are Lori Singer, Frances Lee McCain (the "Gremlins" mom), Dianne Wiest, and Chris Penn. All in all, not a masterpiece, but definitely an enjoyable movie.
Banning dancing. I mean really. Even the most totalitarian societies in history allowed dancing.