Critic Reviews
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Variety
David Stratton
Feel-good quality fare.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
Bootmen, which proves to be a real heart-tugger, is in fact accomplished in all its aspects.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Silly in some parts, but sheer fun in most, Bootmen will get you wiggling in your seat with a big grin pasted on your face.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
The best sequences -- auditions in a strip bar and a public bathroom -- still can't compete with that industrial musical called "Pola X."
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
One expects razzle-dazzle dance sequences to lift this movie above its clichés, but they are few and far between, which is not only disappointing, it's downright baffling.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Clichés negate bona fides; hence, the movie feels like a corny Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland vehicle with cussing. That said, the tapping is fabulous.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
What sets Bootmen apart from the vast competition is its exuberant, sexy tap-dancing, but that's mostly relegated to the grand finale.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
It delivers commendable entertainment value.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
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.
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| 43 |
Mr. Showbiz
"Footloose" meets "The Full Monty" in Bootmen, a cliché-ridden tap dance drama.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Too much soap opera colors its love story, and the industrial- strength dancing by booted men that is its centerpiece falls short of exhilaration.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
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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| 25 |
New York Post
There's 80 minutes of mawkish, overacted melodrama - laced with gratuitous violence and profanity - before we get to anything more than the briefest snippet of a dance number.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
The film's overburdened, silly plot renders it a disaster.
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