"Roller Boogie...is the sort of movie we should probably burn before it gets into a time capsule and reveals to some future generation the extent to which the 1970's could descend into cultural and artistic barrenness."
– Megan Rosenfeld, The Washington Post, 12/24/79

"The plot stinks, the acting isn't too hot, and the characters are flimsy and one-dimensional at best. None of that actually really matters at all though, because this movie delivers what you want in spades, and what you want is that special kind of camp that only the seventies disco movies can provide you."
- Ian Jane, dvdtalk.com 8/24/04

"The movie, as you have guessed, is not very deep...Let's say Roller Boogie is no better and no worse than the beach blanket/bikini/bingo/bongo movies, and from there you're going to have to take it by yourself."
Roger Ebert, rogerebert.com, 2005

"A warm hearty welcome to Roller Boogie, the dopiest movie of the year."
Janet Maslin, The New York Times, 12/19/79

"A silly and trivial attempt to cash in on a teenage craze, with much skating to unmemorable songs: it has nothing to recommend it, least of all the leading performances."
- Halliwell's Film & Video Guide

"The opening is slick enough. With Jim Bray leading an ever growing pack of attractive young people on skates, the screen is quickly filled with sharp, precise choreography on wheels. The scene is reminiscent of a certain soft drink commercial except that everyone is wearing skates. Had the producers quit after those first few minutes everything would have been fine. But you can't sell tickets for a few minutes worth of film....Bray is a good skater, Blair only so-so. The routines look good because he does all the work, lifting and hoisting her. A hernia would have been a likelier reward than a trophy.
- Toni Mastroianni, Cleveland Press

"Watching CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC and THE WIZ every day for a year would be better than this."
- TV Guide

"There's all sorts of skating on offer: disco skating, thrill skating, comedy skating, even sad skating when Bobby has a moment alone on the darkened dance floor. It's a movie about skating, get it? Roller Boogie is clunky nonsense, but has gained a camp appeal over the years which may conjure up viewing pleasure for you. If they'd made the film about skateboards it might still be relevant; as it is, it's about as cool as Cliff Richard's Wired for Sound video."
- Graeme Clark, The Spinning Image

References:
Imdb.com
Allmovie.com
Wikipedia.com
Dvdtalk.com
Rollerboogie.net
Nytimes.com
Rogerebert.com

Compiled by Millie De Chirico