Editing Roller Boogie (section)

==Release==
===Box office===
''Roller Boogie'' was promoted with a lengthy trailer in the autumn of 1979, before premiering at the United Artists theater in [[Warner Center, Los Angeles|Warner Center]] on December 19.<ref name=afi>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/56978|work=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]]|publisher=[[American Film Institute]]|title=Roller Boogie|access-date=May 10, 2023|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510153017/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/56978|url-status=live}}</ref> The film was released in 500 theaters by [[United Artists]] on December 21.<ref name=schreger/> Though initial ticket sales were not as high as the film's producers anticipated,<ref name=schreger/> it went on to gross a total of $13.2 million at the box office, proving popular with teen audiences.<ref name=bom/> Initially, Compass International Pictures planned on a sequel (to be set in Mexico—Acapulco Roller Boogie), but probably due to the end of the disco fad, the idea was scrapped.

===Critical response===
Writing for the ''[[Santa Cruz Sentinel]]'', critic Greg Beebe called the film a "travesty" and deemed it an [[exploitation film]] capitalizing on the trend of roller boogie disco culture.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/santa-cruz-sentinel/124339272/|work=[[Santa Cruz Sentinel]]|last=Beebe|first=Greg|date=December 28, 1979|page=36|title='Roller Boogie' Is A Yablans Travesty|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=May 10, 2023|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510160728/https://www.newspapers.com/article/santa-cruz-sentinel/124339272/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Janet Maslin]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' felt it was thematically shallow, deeming it "the dopiest movie of the year".<ref>{{cite news|date=December 19, 1979|last=Maslin|first=Janet|author-link=Janet Maslin|title=Screen: 'Roller Boogie': Round and Round|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230510012715/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/19/archives/screen-roller-boogieround-and-round.html|archive-date=May 10, 2023|url-status=live|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/19/archives/screen-roller-boogieround-and-round.html|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] awarded the film one-and-a-half out of four stars, likening it to the beach party-themed films produced by [[American International Pictures]]: "There is a sense in which ''Roller Boogie'' comes as a refreshing surprise: I didn't think it was still possible, in the dog-eared final days of the 1970s, to have this silly, innocent, lame-brained and naive movie. I'd always thought that when [[Annette Funicello]] and [[Frankie Avalon]] grew up, that was it".<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|title=Roller Boogie movie review|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|date=January 1, 1980|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/roller-boogie-1980|url-status=live|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230510013645/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/roller-boogie-1980}}</ref>

The film is listed in the [[Golden Raspberry Awards]] founder [[John J. B. Wilson]] book ''The Official Razzie Movie Guide'' as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=John |title=The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst |year=2005 |publisher=Grand Central Publishing |isbn=0-446-69334-0}}</ref>

===Home media===
''Roller Boogie'' was released on DVD by [[MGM Home Entertainment]] on August 24, 2004, as a Region 1 widescreen DVD.

''Roller Boogie'' was released on Blu-ray for the first time by Olive Films on July 7, 2015.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cohen|first1=Steven|title=Olive Films' Summer Blu-ray Titles Now Available for Pre-Order!|url=http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Olive_Films/Disc_Announcements/olive-films-summer-bluray-titles-now-available-for-preorder/24001|access-date=September 10, 2015|publisher=High-Def Digest|date=June 29, 2015|archive-date=July 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703012526/http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Olive_Films/Disc_Announcements/olive-films-summer-bluray-titles-now-available-for-preorder/24001|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Roller Boogie'' will be released on DVD & Blu-ray on June 03, 2025 by Sandpiper Pictures.