Critic Reviews

Feel-good quality fare.

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.

Bootmen, which proves to be a real heart-tugger, is in fact accomplished in all its aspects.

The best sequences -- auditions in a strip bar and a public bathroom -- still can't compete with that industrial musical called "Pola X."

It delivers commendable entertainment value.

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.

What sets Bootmen apart from the vast competition is its exuberant, sexy tap-dancing, but that's mostly relegated to the grand finale.

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.

Clichés negate bona fides; hence, the movie feels like a corny Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland vehicle with cussing. That said, the tapping is fabulous.

"Footloose" meets "The Full Monty" in Bootmen, a cliché-ridden tap dance drama.