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Movie Blurb by Shale
October 14, 2011
Some movie purists would like to dismiss this remake of the classic 1984 movie as some kind of sacrilege. While a lot of remakes are just money grabs by unimaginative studios and some, no matter how good they are like True Grit, ultimately are unnecessary, this one was very timely.
I just watched the original Footloose this week preparing to see the remake. I enjoyed the old movie that sorta launched Kevin Bacon but that, as he said in the script, was his time. This movie is our time (or at least the time of those young ppl in it who did line dancing, break dancing and other steps that I can't name and show how dated the '84 movie is). This is one movie that needed to be remade - and it was so faithful to the original that those purists should at least give it a chance.
If you haven't seen either movie it is a fairly simple story. Ren McCormack (Kenny Wormald) is from Boston and has to relocate to Bomont, a small Southern town and live with his uncle.
He is a misfit in the culture but makes a friend in school of good-ol-boy Willard (Miles Teller - who is every bit as good as Chris Penn in the original movie).
He meets Reverend Moore (Dennis Quaid) and his wife (Andie MacDowell) at church and the Rev's daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough) who is a bit messed up and has a death wish for starters.
The conflict is that after a dance a bunch of teens in a car get killed and the town makes a lot of laws against teens having fun; a curfew, no loud music and no dancing. (This is not some made-up story. There was a specific town that it is based on and several Southern/Western towns had such laws at the time of the first movie.) And of course Ren from the big city can't just roll over and let that happen.
Well, it is a musical so you know Ren and Ariel are going to successfully confront the town leaders and her father the Rev. They are going to have their dance and are going to get together.
This movie followed the original scene-for-scene with a few improvements. It opens with the same feet movement of the original movie but goes from that initial dance to the car crash that is only alluded to in the first movie. The dancing on screen was much more exciting in this movie - Wormald being an actual dancer. The cute scene where Ren and his nieces teach Willard how to dance is even cuter.
If you liked the original movie you should like this one - (is it sacrilege to say "even more.") And, it is a teen movie for kids a generation removed from 1984 - This is their time.
Movie Blurb by Shale
October 14, 2011
Some movie purists would like to dismiss this remake of the classic 1984 movie as some kind of sacrilege. While a lot of remakes are just money grabs by unimaginative studios and some, no matter how good they are like True Grit, ultimately are unnecessary, this one was very timely.
I just watched the original Footloose this week preparing to see the remake. I enjoyed the old movie that sorta launched Kevin Bacon but that, as he said in the script, was his time. This movie is our time (or at least the time of those young ppl in it who did line dancing, break dancing and other steps that I can't name and show how dated the '84 movie is). This is one movie that needed to be remade - and it was so faithful to the original that those purists should at least give it a chance.
If you haven't seen either movie it is a fairly simple story. Ren McCormack (Kenny Wormald) is from Boston and has to relocate to Bomont, a small Southern town and live with his uncle.
He is a misfit in the culture but makes a friend in school of good-ol-boy Willard (Miles Teller - who is every bit as good as Chris Penn in the original movie).
He meets Reverend Moore (Dennis Quaid) and his wife (Andie MacDowell) at church and the Rev's daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough) who is a bit messed up and has a death wish for starters.
The conflict is that after a dance a bunch of teens in a car get killed and the town makes a lot of laws against teens having fun; a curfew, no loud music and no dancing. (This is not some made-up story. There was a specific town that it is based on and several Southern/Western towns had such laws at the time of the first movie.) And of course Ren from the big city can't just roll over and let that happen.
Well, it is a musical so you know Ren and Ariel are going to successfully confront the town leaders and her father the Rev. They are going to have their dance and are going to get together.
This movie followed the original scene-for-scene with a few improvements. It opens with the same feet movement of the original movie but goes from that initial dance to the car crash that is only alluded to in the first movie. The dancing on screen was much more exciting in this movie - Wormald being an actual dancer. The cute scene where Ren and his nieces teach Willard how to dance is even cuter.
If you liked the original movie you should like this one - (is it sacrilege to say "even more.") And, it is a teen movie for kids a generation removed from 1984 - This is their time.
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