She can dance, but she cannot act

Rating: 3/10 (25 March 2012)

In 1984 Kevin Bacon starred in Footloose. It was not a great movie, but it was a fun movie that started a nice career. Now there is the remake. Remakes have a bad habit of tearing a treasured movie down and making a terrible movie in it's place. This is so true of this version of Footloose. It starts with all the bad remakes of 80's songs--why not just use the original artists rather than a terrible singer trying to sing. Like we need some bad singer remake Bonnie Tyler or Kenny Loggins. Next Julianne Hough may be able to dance and sing, but she was the absolute wrong choice for the lead actress. She is not an actress and her money may get her some roles, but she is one of those bad actresses that became popular in another genre that quickly disappears. My biggest disappointment is Dennis Quaid. What is happening with him? I was a big Quaid fan, but he is now making bad movies. He needs to reevaluate his decisions and either take roles for a man his age that have substance or retire from film.