Miles Teller and Kenny Wormald from "Footloose." Photo Credit: K.C. Bailey.
The slick sugarcoated remake of Footloose (2011) has trouble standing on its own without a love of the original, and can barely be compared to a classic like West Side Story (1961).
For one thing, it’s hard to say that Footloose is even a musical. Much of the music in this remake is used as a soundtrack, especially in one very melodramatic scene in which the protagonist, Ren MacCormack, dances out his anger as he talks to himself. This scene is an example of the many holes in the script—it is bland and negates its own best qualities with overly emotional scenes like this one. [click to continue….]
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