movie review week-41 (movie no -2)

Movie Name : - Footloose
Running time: 1 hour 53 mins
Movie Release Date: - October 14, 2011
Rated: PG 13
Starring: Kenny Wormald,
Julianne Hough and
Dennis Quaid
Director: Craig Brewer


Plot - Ren MacCormack (Kenny Wormald) is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont's local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid) responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister's troubled daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough) in the process


This is a pretty good remake of Footloose: good-hearted, sincere, enjoyable, not too stupid. If it's not Brewer's most indelible portrait of the South, maybe it's not such a bad way to bring him back into the studio-filmmaking fold.Footloose has a message to community activism rather than youth rebellion. Instead of dropping out and forming a biker gang, our clean-living hero petitions the town council with a well-constructed argument.He's a rebel with a cause, and he's prepared to go through the correct channels to justify it.
Director (Craig Brewer) has managed to update the story well while still keeping the familiar. Ren’s VW bug. His “angry” dance at the mill. Even that awful maroon tuxedo jacket. But he also gives the film an energy the first film didn’t have.One place where the old "Footloose" has it over the newer version is in the emotional quality of the acting, even though, as directed by the late Herb Ross (who gets a shout-out in the closing credits) the first film was hardly a dramatic landmark.
“Footloose” pretty much delivers the goods. Younger viewers will respond to its message that youth needs to be free to dance without having to think whether they need to be free to do much of anything else.



Final verdict - A teen dance movie - it offers a mild diversion for those who still believe “the music is on their side.” - very much enjoyable.