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Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: The story of two brothers in Newcastle, Australia. One (Garcia) wants to pursue a career as a tap dancer, and the other (Worthington) wants to start his own business.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 14
  2. Negative: 3 out of 14
  1. Reviewed by: David Stratton
    80
    Feel-good quality fare.
  2. 60
    The best sequences -- auditions in a strip bar and a public bathroom -- still can't compete with that industrial musical called "Pola X."
  3. 50
    What it gains in fun, the film loses in credibility, as the production number itself more closely resembles a high-priced Las Vegas extravaganza than a quickly organized charity event.
  4. 38
    Bootmen is the story of a young dancer and his friends who revisit the cliches of countless other dance movies in order to bring forth a dance performance of clanging unloveliness.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. GinoB.
    9
    An Aussie Billy Eliot with a great dance sequence at the end. Makes you want to learn tap.

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