"[The film] is a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly. It wants to tell the story of a conflict in a town, it wants to introduce some flashy teenage characters, and part of the time it wants to be a music video."
Answer Footloose
Footloose was certainly flash when it was released, but it did not find a fan in Roger Ebert, who wrote the negative review you saw.
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