Movie Information
Overall Rank: 21328
Average Rating: 2/4
# of Ratings: 24
Theatrical Release Date: 09/25/2009
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 01/12/2010
Language: English
Genre: Musical, Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Actors: Naturi Naughton, Kelsey Grammer, Megan Mullally, Kay Panabaker, Bebe Neuwirth, Charles S. Dutton
Plot: An update to the 1980s musical - follows a group of students at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts as they pursue their dreams of dance, music and art in hopes of making it in the professional world.
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1.5/4
patjohnson76 - wrote on 05/19/2010
Yikes. It seems like someone wanted to make Fame for a new generation yet still copy the original close enough to please fans who liked the original. As a result, the first hour is mostly performances featuring characters you don't really know yet, the second hour is stories devoted to characters you should know by now, and the result is a movie that is horribly edited. Hilariously, the credits at the end start by showing the actors dance with their names so we know who they are, but I spent them wondering 'who was that?' Grammer, Mullaly, Neuwirth, and Dutton are cast as the teachers - who don't really do anything and are utterly wasted - especially Grammer, who I guess was just told to give disapproving looks. Just watch the original.
Rating of
2/4
Ikkinbot - wrote on 09/27/2009
The original fame was kind of gritty and depressing and this fame pretends to be gritty . . . overall the movie suffered a lot from this. It was more like a Step Up movie or something like that than FAME. That being said all the musical numbers were quite good. The plot pretty much didn't exist and where it did it was lacking.
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