This version didn't have the heart like the original

I thought it was much better than the original!

See now... I think the original is amazing and has tons of heart, but I felt this one had even more. It was a lot sadder, and more emotional than the original, so I don't see how you can say it has less heart.

How dare you speak to the prince of evil that way, you SLUT?

The remake was horrible. It was on TV last night and it felt like I was watching a very bad re-enactment.

I don't by any means think the remake was better then the original, I just wanted to throw that out there before that accusation is brought up. However, I will admit that when I heard about a remake, I went to watch the original and I loved it. I absolutely adore 80s movies (The Breakfast Club being my favorite), I was born in 1992 so of course that era is not my era but I've always loved it.

Anyway, I disagree with you about the heart in this remake. I think it did have heart and I know there are a lot of people who think like you and there are a lot of people who think like me. Yes, sometimes original is better and sometimes remakes are bad... but this is one of the better remakes of 80s movies like this.

Yes Kenny Wormald is not as good an actor as Kevin Bacon but for him to be a professional dancer with only one leading role under his belt before this movie... he held his own very well. I thought he was charismatic, sympathetic, cute, a guy who was not a bad boy (I noticed that's been some of his criticism) but who was just in pain and trying to hide it by being a smart ass (though that seemed like a normal part of his personality but it seemed amplified at times). Personally, I disliked Lori Singer's Ariel, she was one of the most annoying characters in the movie and even when she started to tone down that rebel child attitude because she liked Ren and knew that he was not going for that I rolled my eyes, and I've seen the original loads of times and that never changes. Julianne Hough may also not be the best actress around but she was more likable and her attempts to be a rebel child and "bad" were more believable because that was not who she was. She was a teenager who wanted to be heard by her father, she wanted to be her own person but because she felt so restricted, she acted out even if that's not who she wanted to be... plus I loved the fact that she actually danced since that was something she disliked about the law. In the original, I think outside of the club dancing and maybe a little wiggle here or there when they were caught by Rev Moore at the diner she didn't dance. I also think because they added a little bit more depth to the leads, and tightened some of the questionable story lines from the original, it allowed the remake to stand on it's own and not even be compared to the original.

Outside of Shaw Moore, the adults were fairly in the shadows in the original, besides that random moment when they tried to burn the books. Lithgow and Quaid played Rev Moore differently. Lithgow played him up, where he was loud with his ideals in terms of the laws whereas Quaid was more reserved, doesn't mean that he didn't have conviction. Not all pastors speak with an exaggerated tone. Quaid had a fatherly one which matches his ideas of wanting to "save" everyone in his town and be their protector. Lithgow did the same and it was great watching him, and he definitely knew how to turn it on and off as lots of pastors do these days but saying that Quaid didn't have conviction isn't a fair assessment.

Also Miles Teller was awesome. AWESOME! I don't think Chris Penn would have disagreed with that casting. Yes, people do act and dress like him, when I was in high school there were plenty of white guys who acted, talked and even at times dressed like that. They were not outsiders or outcast or anything. I thought he captured Willard very well, he was funny, adorable and when they were teaching him how to dance it was a great homage to Chris Penn. Thank goodness they updated the dancing though, not all 80s dancing is awesome lol.

I thought it was done very well and it gave it more of a purpose. I think as people have said before, the original Footloose was a product of it's time and yes to those who are my age, maybe older and probably definitely younger will not like it. Personally, I love it but I do agree the remake is a product of this time... it looks fresh, the dancing is expanded to other genres (hip hop, country line, 80s pop/rock) and their is more given to the characters. The original was magic but so was this one. ( I just literally watched the Original and the Remake back to back lol)

I ran into this remake by accident. I was originally trying to get a copy of footloose from 84' with kevin bacon, and got this movie instead without noticing it was from 11'. I decided to watch it anyways, and boy I liked it quite a bit. Comparing it to the original which I watched right after the remake I saw the differences. I have to say that what they took from the original, and created better scenes that made better sense. Like the line dancing, and the jealous boyfriend coming to pick a fight. It had class unlike the original which was just too quick to the point.

I normally don't praise re-makes, but this one is a gem. I won't even bring up how awful the american re-makes are of french/italian films are. 9/10 in my book.

Everything in the remake was kinda amped up, but in a bad way. It resulted in making a movie MORE cheesy than the original. And don't get me wrong, I love the original Footloose, but it's cheesy as hell. Still, it's the only kinda cheese I can see being done in the 1980s and still being somewhat tolerable. It's like who ever they got to add the sliver of "new" stuff to the script(damn, feels like 90% of the the movie, they lifted DIRECTLY from the original, dialog and the scene to scene sequence) tried to amp up certain situations that made this movie feel like a parody of the original.

I think I would've been able to swallow this if it had been a straight up reboot(taking the core idea, but going in a totally different direction with NO use of returning characters or reusing scenes), or if they just buckled down and did Footloose: The Musical: The Movie. I love musicals. They almost went that way with "Let's Hear it For the Boy", it's just little kids were singing(LOL).

To say this movie was more cheeser than the original, which hailed from the decade of cheese, is really something!