Footloose (2011)

I saw the original first and liked it. This is not as good as the original- but few remakes are. (But this is coming someone who currently prefers Van Sant's Psycho.) Some parts bored me but I still found it to be a worthy watch.Not much else to say here. The girl in We Bought a Zoo is in it too. She was probably my favorite character. Just see the original.

This film could have been an improvement on the campy original. However it failed once they cast Julianne Hough. She can dance but she can not act.Sticking closely to the original the film changes Ren from having a mother to being an Orphan. The wreck that was talked about in the original is shown here.Denis Quaid is not a good choice to laying the preacher. In real life he is known for being a huge drunk with stints in rehab. His own persona overwhelms his part here. In general this film was just bad from the idea of it to the casting. Julianne Hough needs to take acting classes. Ever since this film she has stunk in "Grease" and "Dirty Grandpa"I wonder who she is sleeping with?

It's enjoyable, though if you never watched the original and intend to watch both movie, watch this one first, so you won't be biased and saying this movie is not as good. Well in my opinion this is not as good as the original, but I might be biased, and to be honest it's not that bad to deserve less than 5 stars, even if you don't particularly like music or dance, or can't dance, at all.Both movie contain 98% same plot, just switched the time a bit and different minor plot, so you won't be missing a lot, it's just feel this kind of in a slower pace, but any other things are good, choice of actors is nice, not the best acting, but still, music is good too, most are new music of course, that's the purpose of this movie anyway, but they are all fits perfectly, and the classics are still here.I think this remake, in context of it, is good, although some people argue that this movie is pointless since it has the same storyline, but a remake doesn't always have to be a reboot. Still this is a good one to revive a classic to be enjoyed by current generation teenager.

What was the point? The director just went through and removed all the good stuff from the first movie. The original is based on events which took place in Elmore City, OK and yes, they banned dancing. It's hard for today's teens to fathom how religious the 80s were, which might be why they can't grasp a movie like this. You can't make a modern remake of this movie because today's kids aren't suffocating under this type of extreme religiosity. In the original, the ban is on dancing, including a teen prom. The kids are only being reasonable to protest this. In this remake, the ban is on "lewd and lascivious dancing" which the teens think they have a right to perform in the streets.In the original, Ren is an old soul. After his father dies, Ren and his mother must shack with his uncle, moving Ren from Chicago to a tiny town where dancing is banned. Instead of making things more difficult for his mother, Ren tries to fit in and treats everyone politely and respectfully, which results in him being bullied by the small towners. He even tolerates this and tries to play by their rules, never once pointing out the obvious insults a typical obnoxious city teen would have for the rural folks.In this remake, Ren is instead that typical bratty teen, thinking an accident of birth makes him better than everyone, and greeting practically the entire town with the insult that they are hicks. Despite this, the town isn't even that small and is actually multicultural, and the kids dance to hip hop! The only issue the kids face is that their parents don't want them bumping and grinding too suggestively to it! Yeah, that's Ren's issue. His parents are dead, but that's his issue. Even the judge in this town had long hair as a teen, and Ren's uncle reminds him of this, to justify Ren blasting the town with noise pollution.In the original, Ren must struggle to please an unreasonable uncle who blames him for things he didn't do, while this uncle has Ren's back before even asking him if he's guilty. Ren basically has no real struggles to speak of, yet he does a lot of whining anyway. We are supposed to sympathize enough over the loss of his parents to support him humping his girlfriend openly in the streets. The uncle thinks his little girls (and all little girls) should be exposed to this. Ren even declares to the adults that "as kids, its our job to do stupid things", yet he doesn't expand on what the jobs of adults might be.Ariel's father protests not so much because he's a pastor, but because he maintains some shred of hope that his daughter is still a virgin, but when she informs her father that she's not, and Ren informs her father that his daughter is a slut, the pastor gives up and accepts that he will be a grandfather soon. Ren's revelation that Ariel is already hot for his bod means she should be allowed to dance lewd and become a teen mother.In the original, the pastor and Ren finally bond because the pastor lost his son and Ren lost his father. Ren cleverly uses Bible verses to make his point at the town meeting, because it is the only way to convince a highly religious town that bases all of their rules on the Bible. He does this because he is a wise, respectful young man who isn't paranoid of a little studying. In the remake "sir, your daughter is already a slut" is the extent of Ren's argument to the pastor, yet it is (apparently) oddly persuasive.This movie is just laughably bad, so much so that even people who can't quite explain why it's laughably bad still know that it is.