Review by Joshua P.
If you want to witness the bright neon spandex days of yore, of Venice Beach and sunny Los Angeles circa 1979, where all the kids want to do is roller skate with wide smiles plastered on their faces and shimmy shake their bodies to a disco beat, then let me tell you about Roller Boogie. This is one of those time capsule movies—it could be 2053, and it will still SCREAM late 1970s/1980s in all caps. Linda Blair plays a rich girl from Beverly Hills who just wants to skate instead of going to Juilliard to play the flute, and there’s a romance and the mafia and a big boogie contest and so many roller-skating sequences you’ll be sore from just watching whilst on the couch. How can a movie with such a ridiculous story and screenplay, terrible acting, and absurd roller-skating dance sequences be so fun? It’s a cinematic mystery. The phrases cult classic and guilty pleasure were created for films like the achingly silly Roller Boogie. So bad, yet so good.
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