"Let's film a skate contest at an impressive rink and find some way to work a movie around it." As a kid, I was big into disco but never got around to seeing this movie until today. After looking at the cast, my expectations weren't high, but... wow. The sole good point was that the soundtrack was better than "Roller Boogie", but why did they have to use "Boogie Wonderland" AGAIN in a roller disco movie? Dave Mason wasn't even a disco artist and somehow wound up in this movie.
The script is LAUGHABLY bad and the dialogue seems to be written by a 12-year-old, made somehow worse by all-around lousy acting and directing. The cast is comprised of TV comedy actors who couldn't get hired for anything else that year. Even Maureen McCormick's hotness was negated by the part they wrote for her. Most of the women spend their time giving flirty looks when they aren't behaving stupidly (like how an 8-year-old IMAGINES grown women act and speak in a club). As far as the "skater gang" idea: how tough can you really be in disco uniforms on roller skates? For a disco movie to work at all, you need at least one actor/actress with extreme sex appeal to take your mind off the fad saturation, and Swayze wasn't quite there yet.
It's not funny. It's not romantic. I'd have been better off watching somebody fart for an hour and a half. Kudos to Patrick Swayze's career for surviving this.
Ugh.
The script is LAUGHABLY bad and the dialogue seems to be written by a 12-year-old, made somehow worse by all-around lousy acting and directing. The cast is comprised of TV comedy actors who couldn't get hired for anything else that year. Even Maureen McCormick's hotness was negated by the part they wrote for her. Most of the women spend their time giving flirty looks when they aren't behaving stupidly (like how an 8-year-old IMAGINES grown women act and speak in a club). As far as the "skater gang" idea: how tough can you really be in disco uniforms on roller skates? For a disco movie to work at all, you need at least one actor/actress with extreme sex appeal to take your mind off the fad saturation, and Swayze wasn't quite there yet.
It's not funny. It's not romantic. I'd have been better off watching somebody fart for an hour and a half. Kudos to Patrick Swayze's career for surviving this.
Ugh.