Footloose (1984)

The 80s were a wonderful time for pop hits in film. In Footloose, you've got the gargantuan Kenny Loggins writing and performing two great hits as well as songs like "Let's Hear It For the Boy" and the dramatic (is there any other kind?) Bonnie Tyler song "Holding Out for a Hero." Kevin Bacon dances his way into conflict with a fundamentalist Christian town led by John Lithgow in a surprisingly well-rounded "villain" role. The film is cheesy, and it's hard not to be when full-length synth-laced 80s pop hits are playing every five minutes. When Kevin Bacon dances in the warehouse to his little car stereo, they don't even attempt to make the music sound like it's coming out of a car stereo. The instant he turns it on, it's already completely omnipresent and blasting full volume. This logic follows for every boombox and stereo in the film. And that's how hard they must have been pushing the Footloose soundtrack to sell. It worked.

7/10

Edit--corrected the title of the Bonnie Tyler song