Irishchatter You wouldn't think two girls who were wrongly in a mental hospital and escaped to be in a band together? That was such a twist they created in this movie which was good I suppose. I swear Robin Johnson absolutely killed the place, she was such a great singer and man, she could sing like a rock angel! It was too bad that she didn't come into the movie industry after this because she was unbelievable and brilliant. That's so disappointing that she was just ditched just like that! I honestly hope even if shes older now that there would be more films to get involved in and just become more famous. Im just ashamed at Hollywood for dissing other actors who are properly talented, not like stars who are famous for being famous nowadays.I love the music in this although you do get easily lost because the storyline could go all over the place. The soundtrack to this film was excellent, I honestly thought this film had the best soundtrack that's out there in the show business industry!

moonspinner55 Nothing within the musical scenario of "Times Square" rings true. The minutiae of the narrative (slim as it is) never matches up with the film's look, nor the soundtrack selections, nor the age-old theme about struggling talents hoping to break through. Two teenage girls (Trini Alvarado and Robin Johnson, both likable), who are patients in a New York City hospital, escape their confines and move into an abandoned warehouse; after attracting media coverage via a prominent disc-jockey, the kids become cult celebrities. Johnson, who resembles a young Joan Jett, comes on like a little punk rocker-in-the-making, so its surprising (and rather disconcerting) when her moment in the spotlight finally arrives and she's transformed into a New Wave caricature (or, perhaps, a "Rocky Horror" patron). The filmmakers here are clueless as to musical trends, and probably couldn't separate punk from pop or rock from New Wave if they were forced to. It's a lazy, disjointed fairy tale, a film so shallow that it never resembles what the story is meant to be about: young outcasts finding their voices and their freedom through music. For director Allan Moyle, it's all about putting on a show. Perhaps he'd seen too many Judy Garland pictures... *1/2 from ****

shango7200 Everyone seems to LOVE this BOMB movie!I was going to school in NYC when the movie opened. The poster looked cool....then I saw it on HBO in 1983, or thereabouts. It was *NOT* a punk movie at all. Parts made no sense at all. All I remember was Tim Curry telling teenagers (on the air) "They treat you like criminals so wear masks; they treat you like garbage--so wear garbage bags" (or something like that). Then all these teenagers emerge in the "big scene" at the end wearing "bandit" masks and black Hefty bags, and I was like "What the F--k is going on?". A real "wrong time/wrong place" movie, that MAY have been altered a little bit, a few years later, into a Molly Ringwald "Brat Pack" vehicle. Maybe. The double LP soundtrack was a cut-out bin STAPLE till the mid-1980's. Stigwood & co. should have learned their piggish little lesson with the Bee Gees "Sgt. Pepper" movie. There are better "new wave" girly movies than this ("Starstruck" , "Breaking Glass" perhaps?). Overall, this movie was a corporate plan to sanitize punk rock for Mall Girl Consumption by the greedy Grease people! Nothing more. But hey, I'm a 40 year old guy (now), so maybe if I was a 15 year old budding lesbian in 1980, this would have been my "Citizen Kane"?

yougotjames I'm so glad i'm not the only one who thought this was a great film. I saw this movie in 1980 several times. I was a Freshmen in high school and into the punk scene. This movie was such a big influence in my life. I ran away from home after seeing it. Since I grew up in Orange County California and was only fifteen, Times Square was a little too far so I ran away to Hollywood. I have to admit it was kinda fun and I was lucky in that I didn't end up a statistic. I bought the sound track before I ran away and recorded it on tape and used to sit on Hollywood Blvd. and blast it on my ghetto blaster. I haven't seen the movie in years, actually I hadn't even thought about it until I was rating music on my yahoo radio station and Patti Smiths "Pissin in a river" came on. I did a search and found this. After reading all the reviews and comments I really want to see it again. I think I'm gonna buy the DVD. I've looked for it in video rental stores in the past and have never found it. Has anyone ever rented it? My Yahoo ID is yougotjamesnolan if you ever want to listen to my station, I think you'll like it if you like the Times Square sound track. Let me know what you think!