tbills2 (Start 'What A Feeling' now)Man, I really love Jennifer Beals. Jennifer Beals is a classic beauty. Jennifer as Alex in Flashdance is super hot. She is perfect for the part. She's got the look, she's got the attitude and the moves. Jennifer is super sexy and really delivers an all-around awesome performance. Flashdance is an all-time classic. It's a smash cultural hit and it's definitely from the '80s. Jennifer's dance sequences in Flashdance are really beautiful and seriously moving and absolutely unforgettable. I love watching this movie over and over again. It's a classic. Flashdance's 'What A Feeling' by Irene Cara is forever classic."All aloooone I have criied silent teeaars full oof priiide. In a woooorld made of steeel made ooof stooooone. Weeelll III hear the muusic. Close my eeyes feel the rhythmm. Wrap aroouund take a hooold of myy heearrrt. What a feeeeling..beings belieeeviing..I caan have it aall now I'm dancing fooor my liiiiiife..Take your passioon..and maake it happeen..Pictures come aliive you can dance right throough your liiiiiiiii-i-i-iife!!!"Irene Cara is awesome. If there were an all-time greatest Oscars ceremony for every movie ever Irene Cara's 'What A Feeling' would be nominated in the category for best original song for a motion picture and it would probably win. If I were a judge I don't think I would have to consider anything else. It fits the movie to an '80s over the shoulder tee. I love it. Irene can wail!"Noow IIII hear the muusic. Close my eeyes I am rhythm. In a flaaash it takes hooold of my heeeee-aa-aaart. What a feeeeeliiing..beings belieeeviing..I caan have it aall now I'm dancing fooor my liiiife..Take your passion..and maaake it haappeen..Pictures come aliive now I'm dancing throough the niiiiiight. What a feeeliiiiing!!!"Jennifer Beals is awesome God she has an incredible body! She's a great dancer. The Jennifer Beals' sultry Flashdance stage dance is all-time classic and hot and the end dance is even better. Jennifer is awesomely gorgeous and awesomely hot and awesomely sexy. Yeaaahhh!"What a feeeliiing (I am music now) Beings belieeeeviiiing (I am rhythm now) Pictures come aliive you can dance right throough your liiiiiiiiiii-iife!!!"I'm listening to 'What A Feeling' as I write this I suggest you do the same as you read it.

Ian (Flash Review)With a story as thin as a White Castle burger, the story gets totally squashed by the vibrant and avant-guard dance scenes which are over the top 80s in style. The director failed at evoking any emotion from the young protagonist dancer who tries to work her way from, believe it or not, a welder to getting accepted to a prestigious dance school. The failings lie within a story that is choppy, unfocused, poorly paced and edited. That being said, there is a killer break dancing scene and I give it credit for actually focusing on the dancing, more than other 80s dance-focused movies, which are boldly memorable. Lastly, why are there so many scenes of people walking down industrial train tracks in the 80s? There was a random scene of that here too.

Mr-Fusion I'll admit right now that "Flashdance" was probably doomed when I saw Jerry Bruckheimer's and Joe Eszterhas' names in the opening credits. But to be fair, the movie's got their fingerprints all over it. Jennifer Beals has the same irrational rage that Elizabeth Berkley had in "Showgirls". and it's a tired blue-collar-underdog-fulfilling-her-dreams story, shot like a music video. Not to mention the high-powered pop soundtrack. Peel away that packaging, and there's not a lot there.And oddly enough, there's also not much of a payoff after she nails the audition. It just sorta happens. 5/10

d_m_s I really liked the first half hour of this film because of Lyne's fantastic direction and the great editing and sound. However, after that, the lack of story began to take its toll and I found the film dragged. I also felt the story was quite confused, with characters and sub plots popping up without rhyme or reason and being left with loose ends.I didn't like Jennifer Beals's acting and I found the portrayal of her character too aggressive. You can imagine her becoming a diva if she ever hit the big time. She wasn't given much back story so I never felt I know who she was, why she was working as a welder or why she wanted to get where she was going.The last 5 minutes, with the dance audition, became horrendously cheesy and quite out of tone with this otherwise mature film.