A good twist on the 80's classic

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2012)

As a child of the 80's I grew up loving the original Footloose movie and was really skeptical when I heard there was going to be a remake. I have to say though I really enjoyed this remake and loved that they found a lot of ways to use some of the original scenes and music scores and put a modern twist on them. There seemed to be a lot more dancing in this version(which I loved) and while I knew Julianne Hough would really shine in the dancing scenes since she is a dancer, I was really surprised by how great Kenny Wormald was. In my opinion he was a much better dancer then Kevin Bacon was and he played the part very convincingly. There was a lot of thought in pulling parts of the original into the remake while still making it stand on it's own and really I loved this one just as much as I love the original!