I gotta cut loose
Oct. 20th, 2011 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23Footloose- I probably should start my review by saying 1) I don't really have any feelings one way or the other towards the original and 2) I just was hoping it wasn't terrible.
It is MTV films, so the possibility was there. Still, Footloose is really a fun movie- one of those movies where you care less artistic statement, and enjoy it on TBS on a random Saturday afternoon. It is generally enjoyable, and it is destined for those TBS replays.
Kenny Wormald plays the James Dean archetype, and generally works as the Boston kid transplanted to the South. It is all a bit cliche but Wormald for the most part pulls it off. It's hard to imagine it would work as well with Zach Efron in that role as originally planned.
Julianne Hough plays the 'Are you really trying to pull off being a 15-year old?" love interest. The supporting cast is generally better than one would expect (Ray McKinnon and Miles Teller in Chris Penn's role for starters), and Dennis Quaid (who I always thought was under-rated) channels his inner Rick Perry as the John Lithgow replacement.
There's plenty of music and dancing, but it's not a musical as advertised. I grew up in a county that still doesn't sell beer on Sunday, so I have a great affinity for these characters, and in the times of the Tea Party, a ban on dancing hardly seems that far fetched.
I am going to give it a thumb's up for what it is. The idea struck me as a bomb in the making, but for all intents and purposes, it is hard not to like this movie at least a little.
It is MTV films, so the possibility was there. Still, Footloose is really a fun movie- one of those movies where you care less artistic statement, and enjoy it on TBS on a random Saturday afternoon. It is generally enjoyable, and it is destined for those TBS replays.
Kenny Wormald plays the James Dean archetype, and generally works as the Boston kid transplanted to the South. It is all a bit cliche but Wormald for the most part pulls it off. It's hard to imagine it would work as well with Zach Efron in that role as originally planned.
Julianne Hough plays the 'Are you really trying to pull off being a 15-year old?" love interest. The supporting cast is generally better than one would expect (Ray McKinnon and Miles Teller in Chris Penn's role for starters), and Dennis Quaid (who I always thought was under-rated) channels his inner Rick Perry as the John Lithgow replacement.
There's plenty of music and dancing, but it's not a musical as advertised. I grew up in a county that still doesn't sell beer on Sunday, so I have a great affinity for these characters, and in the times of the Tea Party, a ban on dancing hardly seems that far fetched.
I am going to give it a thumb's up for what it is. The idea struck me as a bomb in the making, but for all intents and purposes, it is hard not to like this movie at least a little.
