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Footlousy

Here's the trailer for MTV's remake of Footloose, which looks about as bad and misguided as most every other MTV movie.

The true irony of the film though is the tagline, "This is our time". This is a shoddy remake from the 80's that speaks to nothing but nostalgia of another time. For the target demo, this is most certainly not their time. Furthermore, the dancing seems to lead to drinking and fornicating so I'm not sure how that's going to prove the preacher man wrong. Also, if I remember correctly, the dancing ban in the original was just how the town was, which makes more sense than having it be a crazy law that was recently passed. The outsider comes to town and... also disagrees with the law that most young people seem to hate... but he's going to make a difference. And finally, while I'm originally from Mass and shouldn't say this, the Boston accent often sounds, dare I say, "rahtaaaahded" and having a kid making a stand with, "This is owah time" seems like they were aiming for parody.

In the end, this film is simply too late. The nostalgia factor is non-existant and the dance movie craze has already come and gone and this film looks like an out-of-touch studio exec's idea of what the kids who liked Stomp the Yard, Step Up, Save the Last Dance, etc. would want.


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