From the beginning to end these kids were so crazy. The drag racing, the bus thing, the girl jumping in front of the train. They didn't need to outlaw dancing, they needed to outlaw stupidity and encourage common sense. And Julienne Hough's hair color was eww, should never happen.
shareThey did a lot of that in the original too(particularly the drag racing and Ariel playing chicken in front of the train), but I think the bus "death course" thing was a tad bit overboard. It's like they wanted to take the stupidity of the "tractor chicken race"(of the original) and blow it up to ridiculous proportions. And as stupid as two teenagers playing a game of tractor chicken is, I can actually see that happening in a place like Bomont. Farmland as far as the eyes can see, and a lot of the families owned tractors(and farming equipment). The fact that two of them can sneak their daddy's tractors away seems far more likely a thing than this hidden "death course" in the middle of a monster truck/rodeo arena. "Oops, better check on Chuck, I think he's DEAD!". Seriously, how nobody in Bomont knew about that made the situation even more dumb(even in the original, they commented about how some stupid teenagers gone and turned over a tractor on so-and-so's farm, meaning even though Ren, Chuck and all their friends managed to run away before getting caught, the folks at Bomont knew this incident was the work of teenage shenanigans).
It kinda felt, how certain scenes were handled, this movies was more a parody of the original than a straight up remake. It was like they said, "Okay, Footloose, that movie is already pretty cheesy as hell, but how can we make it even MORE stupid?".
Yeah, I completely agree, remaking the film was overkill. Many of the things that they repeated seem outdated, it doesn't seem realistic that any town in this day in age would out law dancing--I can understand in the 1980s, but 2011 its just unrealistic (like most of the this movie).
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