I think I am the only one who doesn't like this movie.

Rating: 4/10 (9 March 2015)

Recently, our high school just finished production on Footloose The Musical. I was very reluctant about joining, but since it was my final year, I decided why not it couldn't hurt. Joining the crew was one of the best decisions I have ever done with my life. Not only did I have fun, but I really liked the musical as well, mainly because its a musical. Why was I reluctant to join at first though? Because I DO NOT LIKE THIS MOVIE.
Who thought it was a good idea to make a dance movie with literally no dancing?! That's like making Star Wars take place down the street where your friend lives! Also, this becomes a major plot hole because we all know you cannot ban dancing, a physical form of expression from us.
Anyways what is the plot to this? Well, Ren (Kevin Bacon) moves into a town with his mom to live with his aunt and uncle where he learns that dancing and rock music is banned in Bomont. So he rebels against Reverend Moore and decides that is not right so his journey to revoke the law begins.
I can literally remember nothing from this movie. Not even the opening! Take the musical, you got a great opening that you can remember, awesome songs you can remember, and a finale that well, you can remember. What do I remember from this movie?....... The Reverend's daughter gets smacked by him and is assaulted by her boyfriend. Very lovely images.
Also, I can't remember any of the characters. Thankfully the musical helped me remember most of them. Willard I could barely remember from the movie, but in the musical, he looked so colorful in character. Also, The Reverend is so unlikable. You have to have some since that he wants to do the right thing and regrets it. Take for the musical again which I will be still comparing to in this review. You got a song called Heaven Help Me. A Song about him wanting to do the right thing. But no, instead of making this movie a musical, we get him being a big douche and arguing with people which is boring and makes me not care.
The songs... what do I remember, Well I do remember Footloose. A Good song. Lets Hear It For The Boy. Another good song... and that's about it. You know, the only reason I think these songs were nominated for Oscars was because they were memorable and timeless.
Oh and one of the scenes I hate so much is where Ren is given some kind of drug, gets in trouble for it, doesn't fight back, and guess what? HE DANCES IN AN ABANDONED WAREHOUSE. WHAT?! Seriously, if you don't want the drug, why don't you fight back so when a teacher comes in saying whats going on you can say HE TRIED GIVING ME DRUGS and he would get in trouble! Or you could just run away! BUT NO its this forgettable scene where they use one shot like 10 times.
The reason I liked the musical so much was because even when it was almost a decade and a half later, it fixed these problems, it made characters likable and memorable, they made songs memorable that weren't from the movie, they made it look passionate and that's what I like about the musical and not this garbage. To all high schools out there. Please do Footloose the musical! It will be the better decision then letting people watch this forgettable mess.
47/100 C-