Roller Boogie

Starring:Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Beverly Garland, Roger Perry, James Van Patten, Kimberly Beck, Sean McClory, Mark Goddard, Albert Insinnia, Stoney Jackson, M.G. Kelly, Christopher S. Nelson, Patrick M. Wright, Dorothy Meyer, Shelley Golden, Bill Ross, Carey Fox, Nina Axelrod, Rick Sciacca, Fran Altman
Director: Mark L. Lester
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Roller Boogie is Awesome
One star is too many!
Dance Craze Time Capsule
The Poor Man's Xanadu? Or Rich Man's Dance Fever with Denny Terrio!
Fantastic

Roller Boogie
Starring: Linda Blair , Jim Bray , Beverly Garland , Roger Perry , and James Van Patten
Director: Mark L. Lester
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00026L7Q8
Release Date: 2004-08-24

Description

Love is born to boogie in this electrifying and enjoyable (The Hollywood Reporter) romantic adventure about a Beverly Hills teen who takes love for a spin with a boy from the wrong side of the roller rink! Starring Linda Blair (The Exorcist), Roller Boogie is the ultimate fast-paced, freewheeling 70s roller rompfull of hot bodies (Variety), cool skating and hard-driving disco music (Film Journal)! Terry Barkley (Blair) has a talent for the flute, a scholarship to Juilliard and her whole future planned outuntil she falls head over wheels for a roller-boogie bad boy (Jim Bray). But Terry may lose more than her bearings when the local roller park is threatened by a shady development dealand the mob threatens to turn her boogie hot spot intoa disco inferno!

Customer Reviews:

Roller Boogie is Awesome.......2007-05-07

I was so excited to see that this movie was being sold on DVD. I really enjoy the show. I grew up in the 80's and I loved roller skating. If you are not a major critic and enjoy roller skating, then get the movie. The movie is really exciting with alot of great music and lots of skating. It brought back some of the memories of my younger days. I intend to buy two more movies for my and my friends.

One star is too many!.......2007-05-04

OK, that's a little harsh. One star is probably not too many for a movie that isn't really a "movie" in the sense of having a coherent plot, credible dialogue, minimal acting skills, etc. "Roller Boogie" would have made a perfect Charlie's Angels episode -- in fact, it did, when Jaclyn, Farrah and Kate (or their stunt doubles) donned their four-wheel, suede-booted skates and chased the bad guys down Venice Beach.

But the Angels were the Angels; everything they did was in the greater service of looking good, acting very little, and trying not to laugh their way through ridiculous plots. "Roller Boogie", on the other hand, offers us Queen of the B's Linda Blair surrounded by a bevy of nonactors, a raft of horrendous disco songs (this stuff makes the Bee Gees sound like great art), and endless choreographed disco-on-skates numbers. Round, and round, round and round the kids skate. And the bad guys lose at the end.

How did we ever survive the 80's?

Dance Craze Time Capsule.......2007-05-03

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!

The Poor Man's Xanadu? Or Rich Man's Dance Fever with Denny Terrio!.......2007-04-23

I liked Linda Blair ever since her prison shower scene in Chained Heat. (U2's Bono famously introduced "Helter Skelter", "Charles Manson stole this song from the Beatles, and we're stealing it back!" Well, the musical "Chicago" stole women in prison movies, and I'm stealing them back -- with a B-Movie script I'm working on, "Bars of Iron, Bars of Soap", with Pam Anderson in mind as the warden). Anyway, back to roller disco movies.... Roller Boogie doesn't quite measure up to Xanadu, although Linda Blair is more than ample for the role of spandex wearer. [Olivia Newton-John is a goddess, but Blair is just so... skatable with (uh! uh!)] Both movies have Andy Gibb looking actors as so-so leads, so it's up to the ladies to carry the load. (And oh, how Blair carries the load, quite well in spandex indeed!) Xanadu obviously has the superior soundtrack, with Olivia, ELO, and Gene Kelly putting on the hits and ritz. That said, Roller Boogie uses Earth, Wind, and Fire's "Boogie Wonderland", although it seems to be the sole hit the producers were willing to pay for. The rest of the soundtrack sounds like an episode of CHiPs. Visually -- babe wise -- Roller Boogie does quite well, with its LA "foxes next door"... in spandex. In terms of production value, I'd say Roller Boogie's disco scenes are on par with Denny Terrio's Dance Fever - and soar above the latter era Dance Fever with Adrian Zmed (who acted at that same time with the purr-ific Heather Locklear on TJ Hooker.... Don't rent it - it's not about prostitution). I would also rank Roller Boogie over The Boy in the Plastic Bubble -- which didn't have disco or rollerskates, but did have a lead actress that looked like Blair, and a lead who was literally in a bubble, while Blair's Roller Boogie character is in the "bubble" her super-rich, suffocating parents want for her. Her lawyer dad thinks disco is dangerous! "It-it-it's that inSANE disco music! You're an artist, a musical genius! And I'm not going to have my daughter... skating." But we know better. We know more than super-rich lawyers! You can't stop disco! (Blair's home life scenes have a nostalgic quality, with the look and drama of "Dynasty" - not too shabby). Roller Boogie is a great transport back to a golden age of disco fever and gilded spandex -- you can't beat that! Except with Xanadu, the pure angelic white leg warmers to Roller Boogie's spandex tops (uh, uh!) and bare bronzed meaty legs... so honey coated... want to touch the hi-ney.

Fantastic.......2007-03-21

When I ordered Roller Boogie I expected it to take atleast a week to come in the mail, it was here in 4 days. I am going to do all of my online shopping with Amazon.I will tell all of my friends and family to do the same.

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