Ugh. Another remake.
The brain trust in Hollywood has decided that 80s cheese flick, Footloose, needs an update.
You remember Footloose, right?
OH MY GOSH, it is so bad it's good. Like, you cringe when seeing it on cable, but you can't take your eyes off it. The dialogue? Weak. The cast? A mix of goofy and earnest. The dancing? Ridiculous. But the soundtrack? I bought the soundtrack after seeing this movie. Because it worked. It made the movie. It kept you from thinking too hard about how thin Lori Singer was or how much actual dancing Kevin Bacon did himself. It also kept you in your seat and not running like you were on fire to find the theater manager, demanding your money back, because you just witnessed a TRACTOR RACE and OMG, what? Really? But you sat there and watched and it didn't cause you to turn to therapy because Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For a Hero" was perfect in that moment.
And you know you tapped your feet to "Let's Hear It For the Boy," so don't even try to say you didn't. No one will believe you.
Now they want to try to catch lightening in a bottle again with a remake starring Chace Crawford from Gossip Girl. XOXO, y'all! Perennial Flat Ironed Hair King Zac Efron actually dropped out of the film because he didn't want to be known as the dude that sings and dances his way through movies. Uh huh.
Chace Crawford is not better, or even equal to, Kevin Bacon. Efron wouldn't have cut it, either. Kevin Bacon, as Ren, will always win out.
Better get started on that soundtrack.
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