Fluentiama
Perfect cast and a good story
Odelecol
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
FirstWitch
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
paintbrush_2003
When I caught this movie on TV the other day, I kept watching it because I could tell the points they were trying to make, but somehow the filmmakers kept missing the mark. I really wanted to like this movie. I just kept getting distracted by its disjointedness and low production values. Case in point: Because I missed the opening, I had no idea what movie this was while I was watching it, but I could tell right away it had been made in the 80s even though it was obviously set in the 60s. The wardrobe and hair look like something a bunch of kids would do for a 60s theme dance with the help the their parents and 80s clothes out of their own closet. Every look was just enough off that it didn't look at all authentic.I could almost follow the story line, and I did want the main character to succeed. BUT almost every line of dialogue was mumbled, and every scene rang false, as if I could see a map outlining that the actors needed to get from from A to B in a particular scene, but they don't actually ever get there. Yet the next scene continues on as if they did. It took me almost the whole movie to really get what was going on, and a lot of time it felt as if there were entire chunks of the movie missing. Overall it's a mediocre movie. Not terribly bad, just not terribly good. I can't quite explain why I kept watching - maybe I just kept hoping a scene would succeed. It looks as if they point they were trying to make was that time in your life when you know everything is changing. It's just been done much better elsewhere. By the way, the dancing is kinda' cool, but boy some of the moves look like 80s break dancing instead of 60s jive.
mojo2004
I saw this movie back when I used to get the "Encore" movie channel. The movie to me was campy at first but the more I saw it the more I loved it.Great dancing,likable kids,and songs you just don't hear inevery teen 60's movie.I was heart-broken when I read Orion Studios went broke and this movie was never released on a big scale.I'm not saying the acting is great in fact most of the actors are bad but the spirit of teen dance shows is alive and making you want to get up and boogie. Betten than the show "American Dreams" to me and picking Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" to end the movie was perfect.I, like others also found this movie in the dicount bin and it made my day.Again kudos to whomever picked the songs used in the movie."When You're Young and In Love", "Cast Your Fate to the Wind"..... oh it made me cry.......
alelia1
Peter Boyle (Young Frankenstein, Everybody Loves Raymond)made an uncredited cameo. It is a scene where Del walks into the studio. Sally Starr, a hero on 1950's Philly kid shows, asks "Uncle Pete" to draw Del a picture. In fact, that is what Peter Boyle's real father, Uncle Pete, did on Philly TV in the 50's, drawing pictures between cartoons on his after school show.
Lizzy_C
Donovan Leitch (model, actor, glam rock singer of the band "Nancy Boy", brother of actress Ione Skye "Say Anything", and son of 60's singer Donovan) is totally hot, and he is great in this movie! Especially his dancing! A must see for any fan of Dono, of 80's films, or of the 60's! Plus the music is great!
