I remember catching this eons ago on a small B&W TV when it was featured on a late Saturday Night Movie. My primitive technology of viewing it though didn't dampen my opinion of how ludicrous and extremely outdated it was. This was after the roller- disco-rink-phase long wore out.
An "artistic roller skater" who's name and shoes-on-wheels glory obviously faded out, is the love interest to Linda Blair, who helps him save their precious roller skating rink from a criminal land developer who wants to tear it down and make way for a more profitable enterprise.
There's a glamorized musical number where the throng of skaters on the rink move in unison and even do a line dance where they're happily tapping their skates to the corny disco beat. That would've been awe inspiring for the roller skating fanatics back then, but today, it comes off as completely laughable.
I don't mean to maliciously dish this old piece of a fad long gone, but times have changed and so do opinions. On a good note, it's an excellent peek into the era for those who experienced it. For those who didn't, well it's an unintentional laugh-fest all the way.
Maybe the roller skating craze will come back one day all these decades later, but until it does, we'll have fragments of stuff like 'Roller Boogie' to remind us of how it once was.
An "artistic roller skater" who's name and shoes-on-wheels glory obviously faded out, is the love interest to Linda Blair, who helps him save their precious roller skating rink from a criminal land developer who wants to tear it down and make way for a more profitable enterprise.
There's a glamorized musical number where the throng of skaters on the rink move in unison and even do a line dance where they're happily tapping their skates to the corny disco beat. That would've been awe inspiring for the roller skating fanatics back then, but today, it comes off as completely laughable.
I don't mean to maliciously dish this old piece of a fad long gone, but times have changed and so do opinions. On a good note, it's an excellent peek into the era for those who experienced it. For those who didn't, well it's an unintentional laugh-fest all the way.
Maybe the roller skating craze will come back one day all these decades later, but until it does, we'll have fragments of stuff like 'Roller Boogie' to remind us of how it once was.