STAR RATINGS EXPLAINED
Unmissable
Excellent
Good
Poor
Tragic

FILM DETAILS

Certificate

Cast Kenny Wormald Julianne Hough Dennis Quaid.

Directors

Screenwriters

Running Time minutes

LATEST FILM REVIEWS Everybody Has A Plan Easy Money Fast And Furious 6 Beware Of Mr. Baker Liability, The 5 STAR REVIEWS Gatekeepers , The Stoker In The House Lincoln Italian Job, The

Footloose
A newer version of the same old number

Tweet

Plot
Newcomer Kenny Wormwald steps into the skinny jeans of Ren McCormack for this musical version of the Kevin Bacon original.

Review
In development for several years, this version updates the story from the 1984 original, switches the setting and swaps a few elements. But essentially, this is just the old dance number with some new choreography as big-city boy Ren MacCormack (Kenny Wormald) shakes up the music-hating town of Bomont. No matter how much it might still go on in small US towns, the dancing ban is still not the world’s most dramatic hook, Wormald is no Kevin Bacon (the angry warehouse dance number is still silly) and Julianne Hough never really sparks as rebellious minister’s daughter Ariel. But it all jigs along harmlessly, the big musical moments offer some excitement and there are some decent laughs via Miles Teller’s gawkward sidekick Willard.

Write Your Review
To write your review please login or register.

Your Reviews

Average user rating for Footloose

Reasonable

A big city boy comes to a small Redneck town and ruffles some feathers - hardly original but then you wouldnt expect originality from an 80s remake. At times the modernisation (iPod use) sits uncomfortably with the 80s homage (playing classic 80s hits in a 2011 prom? Surely not, where's the dubstep blud?) but overall a timeless theme of how far parents and adults let minors do their own thing. - so a ban on dance wouldn't happen in the U but is not out of place in smalltown America (indeed is t... More

Posted by filmsunlimited at 21:06, 26 October 2011 | Report This Post

CURRENT HIGHLIGHTS
		Movie Poster Mashups: The Furniture Edition You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be appalled at the punning...
		Cannes Film Festival Videblogisodes #1 Leonardo Di Caprio, Baz Luhrmann and a mysterious stranger kick things off
		Exclusive: Why Man Of Steel Wasn't Called Superman Writer and producer David S. Goyer speaks
		Dwayne Johnson Talks Fast & Furious 6 'I wanted to come in and frankly dominate the movie.'
		Music Celebration: David Holmes On The Making Of The Out Of Sight Soundtrack 'I watched the film... the music was all over the shop'
		The Rise And Fall Of The Movie Power Ballad What happened to those endless movie theme no.1 hits?
		Hans Zimmer Career Interview On The Dark Knight, Man Of Steel and Going For Gold

Follow @empiremagazine