movie review: the new Footloose

[marcicat]

1. Okay, the good news is that yes, Julianne Hough is in this movie, and she’s been on Dancing With the Stars, and so there was some show-to-movie loyalty going on there for me. The bad news is that this movie really didn’t translate well to 2011. I kept wondering why they were at the *library,* looking at books — computers, anyone?

2. Actually seeing the whole party-followed-by-tragic-car-accident made the “we passed a law to ban dancing” make even less sense than it did back in the old version. Numerous things would have made much more sense in terms of banning. My suggestions:
-a ban on alcohol
-a ban on driving under the age of 18
-a ban on driving with passengers
-a ban on dating/kissing

3. Lots of this movie didn’t make any contextual sense, which I’m generally fine with in a movie. My biggest disconnect was that the two characters we saw actually interacting the most were Ren and Willard. It’s like the movie-makers just assumed the romance between Ren and Ariel would be obvious, so there was no need to build it up. It ended up coming across sort of like this: [Ren & Ariel: 'hey, you're hot, I'm hot, and we're both planning on leaving in a year or two and never seeing each other again -- wanna hook up?'] On the flip side, Ren and Willard actually had conversations, and relationship development, and even a climactic dance together at the end!

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.