Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

James Bowie That's what I said as the end titles rolled.This film is nothing more than a drawn out promotion of Donna Summer and The Commodores and a bunch of other contracted artists on the Casablanca and Motown record labels.What little there is of a plot is risible. The dialog is dreadfully amateurish and I pity the few name actors trying to work with it. Most of them simply phone in their lines.Andrea Parker makes the best of a bad lot.Leonard Maltin summed it up perfectly when he declared it to be 'perhaps the worst film ever to have won some kind of Academy Award'.Simply awful.

preppy-3 One night in a disco involving various characters and situations.Most people like this for its accurate representation of the Disco Era. Its all here--the terrible clothes, music and casual drug taking. It also has a great five minute or so bit where Donna Summer belts out "Last Dance" (a deserved Academy Award winner for Best Song). But one good bit does not excuse the rest of the movie. It's badly written and badly acted full of characters you could care less about. The dramatic moments come across as unintentionally hilarious while the intentional comedy is downright painful. It's hard to believe that Jeff Goldblum, Debra Winger and Donna Summer still had careers after this fiasco. I caught it on cable TV a few years ago and it was a real chore watching the whole thing! The only thing I could think of after was TGIO--Thank God It's Over! For a much better and more accurate representation of disco rent "Saturday Night Fever" (the R rated version). Avoid, at all costs, this mess. Gets a 2 just for "Last Dance".

buby1987 TGIF feels like a Robert Altman disco film -- multiple characters and story lines intersect and bounce off each other. Released a few months after Saturday Night Fever, TGIF is a wonderful artifact of the 70's. Looking back almost 30 years later, it all seems so carefree and innocent.There are some delightful surprises in the cast -- Debra Winger makes her film debut. Jeff Goldblum gets his biggest film role to date. And best of all, Donna Summer makes her film debut. It is great to see Donna caught on film, performing at the height of her powers. She does the show-stopper Last Dance, a song that would win the Best Song Oscar.In addition, the Commodores make a cameo appearance. Lots of great music throughout -- great Casablanca Records soundtrack.Lots of great character actors -- Chuck Sacci as Gus, a garbage collector who meets up with an unlikely computer date.It is great to see L.A. as it was in late 77/early 78 -- billboards on the Sunset Strip for Eric Clapton's Slowhand and other 1977 albums. Plus, Osko's disco on La Cienega, which is now a strip mall. In one shot looking north on San Vincente, there is a giant gap where the Beverly Center currently sits. Also, gas prices were a lot cheaper back then.In sum, this is a fun movie, a great escape from all the bad news we're bombarded with today.

vhpstar I really like Thank God It's Friday because reminds me of my very young years. Perhaps this movie today does not represents much, but is itself a simbol of an era. At that time (1978) the movie was a fashion hit due to the disco vogue, becoming the Academy Award Winner as the best musical theme in 1978 (Last Dance). Donna Summer was at the top of her career, and Jeff Goldblum with Debra Winger were new debutants in the movie business, who years later became big Hollywood movie stars because of this movie. This movie is actually a lot much better and fun than many other musicals. The music itself has better quality than much of today's music which absence of quality, taste and talent is so evident (and presence of violence, terrible languaje and sex and drugs abuse is so evident as well). The only one thing I really don't like from this 1978's movie is the consumption of drugs, but at that time that was considered pretty tame. However the young people at that time watched the movie more for the fun to enjoy it and the fashion of the disco vogue, than the drugs use or abuse. This movie is much fun and it is a way to say : go ahead and have fun at least one time in your life!. Be young and be happy once everywhile! Dance and enjoy yourself! This is an Anmerican classic in my opinion because it is the mirror and reflex of an era. 1978's Thank God It's Friday obtained actually the Academy Award that Saturday Night Fever didn't get in 1977! And both are pretty much about the same stuff. However Saturday Night Fever focused more in the personal life of a dancer ("Tony", John Travota), but Thanks God It's Friday was made to focus in the common and real people having fun in the best Disco of the town, as we actually did in the discos at that time, with Tarzan included!.