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91Stepping into sacred shoes once worn by Kevin Bacon, Wormald handily owns the role for a new audience. Same goes for a terrific Miles Teller (Rabbit Hole) in the sidekick role of Willard so memorably originated by the late Chris Penn.
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90Brewer, who spent most of his childhood in Memphis, is one of the few contemporary filmmakers I know of who can make movies about the South without sentimentalizing it, glorifying it or looking down on it.
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83Wormald won't make anyone forget Bacon, but he dances better, and without a stand-in. Hough's dance ability is well-known, but she also displays flashes of acting skill.
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75Footloose won me over early, with a sequence in which the hero gets all heavy metal while restoring his badass ... VW Bug.
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75The new Footloose does everything it needs to do. It's a vibrant youth musical that will appeal to audiences who haven't seen the 1984 original. And it has enough charm and life to it to compete with the memory of the earlier version.
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67It hardly needs to hang its head around the original, and it bolsters Brewer's standing as a talent of note.
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67Finally, along comes a remake – a darn faithful one, too – that's not a just a pointless rehash or mindless retread.
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67Brewer's Footloose has sex, swagger, and even an edge of danger, but in the end, he's hamstrung by the project's innate ridiculousness.
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63Plotwise, though, Brewer's Footloose is anything but loose. In fact, it's rigidly loyal to the original, to the point of slavishness.
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63Footloose never needed to be dragged into the 21st century, but Brewer has made it look and sound a little bit more like the real world.
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63As remakes go, Footloose is fine, serving up slightly fresher batches of cheese and corn. But why? Why?
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63This remake does something less organically fun. It makes kids nostalgic for something they never experienced.
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63The result is that rare breed of big-studio pictures: A remake that makes sense.
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Oct 12, 201163If the Footloose remake had its own signature dance, it'd be called the Push-Pull, as this hip-to-be-sorta-square movie, much like the small-town teens within it, has a mind for propelling itself toward a progressive future while continually being yanked back by cherished hallmarks of the past.
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63Brewer gave the film a little Southern hip hop, and brought in real Southerners Quaid, Andie MacDowell and Ray McKinnon to further Southernize it.
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63When the characters in Footloose are dancing and the music is blaring, the film comes alive. It has energy and personality. Would that the same could be said about the dramatic scenes, which are hamstrung by a combination of mediocre acting and atrocious dialogue.
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60Stays remarkably close to its predecessor in all the ways that count.
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60Oddly, Craig Brewer has softened the tone for his remake. But nearly everything else remains intact, and -- surprisingly -- that's just enough to win us over.
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60This Footloose it's a pleasant reminder of the past for fans of the first one, and an agreeable-enough experience for everyone else.
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60Suffering through flatlining romantic and dramatic interludes isn't any less painful now than it was in '84, but when this musical occasionally kicks off its Sunday shoes, the dynamic memory-lane trip actually approaches - Kevin help us! - something resembling genuine fun.
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Oct 11, 201160Nothing in Footloose comes close, in this respect, to the best moments of Brewer's previous, vibrant if uneven films "Hustle & Flow" and "Black Snake Moan," but this heartfelt retread of a notably thin popcorn property does come alive during an illicit dance-off.
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60There have been far, far worse remakes out there. Harmless, feel-good fun.
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Oct 5, 201160From start to finish, Brewer's remake exudes the look and style of its forebearers: semi-awkward dance choreography, clunky dialogue and an obedience to formula that borders on cliché. But somehow, it works.
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60Paramount's Footloose reboot never quite cuts loose enough to distinguish itself from the original.
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50This same premise holds for the remake, and it seems more pandering (and dated) than ever.
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50While dance sequences are not particularly well edited compared to the new breed of dance flick, Wormald and Hough are exciting hoofers to watch.
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50Silly as it was, the first movie had a more innocent and campy spirit than this calculated, if faithful, redo.
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50Footloose poses as a bold update, but it's shockingly out of step with the times.
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50Somehow Footloose never finds its rhythm. The maudlin scenes drag on, and the livelier moments pass by too quickly. It only works when it settles down and lets the characters (and the audience) hang out and have a little fun.
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50Footloose 2011 is harmless as far as it goes, but on the dance floor and off it never goes nearly far enough.
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50Brewer must have convinced himself that a schlocky old movie would speak eloquently to today's teens. About half of the time, he pulls it off.
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Oct 13, 201150The movie plays like a slightly degraded version of the original: the dialogue is a little lamer, the acting a little poorer.
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50The result is a film that feels hidebound. And nobody ever called a dance-driven movie "hidebound."
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50The new film may also serve a purpose by showcasing a dynamic and attractive new actor, Kenny Wormald but, otherwise, this is a by-the-numbers affair.
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38This new Footloose is a film without wit, humor or purpose.
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