Fame [2009]

Pretty bad :)

As other posters have said, singing is ok, dancing is ok. You find yourself not caring about the characters because there's too many stories going on & nobody really gets that much screen time.

Love the theme song though, it's really grown on me.

Oh & it's sooooooooooo cringey in so many places :D
 
I have one major complaint about it, IT WASN'T FAME.

Why do a film that doesn't have the same characters plot or songs as the stage version and even bother to keep the title.

Call it Fame2 or even Fame2009 but it wasn't Fame.
 
Really? Who died of a drug overdose in high school musical? People don't even know what Fame is actually about and this movie just hammers another nail in the coffin.
 
I liked it. It was a bit scattered in places and it didn't really work when they layered two scenes over each other - it sometimes did, and was very effective (near the beginning, when Malik was reading a monologue and Marco was singing) but other times it didn't work.

But overall, I thought it was a good film.
 
They should have just called it
"Fame: Actually, This Is Just Another High School Musical Film"

There was no need to remake/reimagine/repackage Fame...
 
I saw it and it and thought it should have gone straight to DVD, it was utter rubbish, the original was more gritty and had a storyline. The 2009 version was patchy and boring, it's saving grace was Ms Naughton when she sang " On my Own", that black girl will be a star, she was sheer talent
 
Fame was seriously disappointing. I went thinking that it would be really good and it wasn't. It seemed to be all over the place and no real storyline to it. I would give it like 3 out of 10. The best part of the whole thing was seeing the new moon trailer. Avoid fame its rubbish!!!
 
I can see what you mean. Whilst HSM isn't quite like the original Fame, it seems similar to the remake. I haven't seen the new Fame nor do I intend to as it is just too unecessary but from what I have heard its all very PG compared to the original making it more like another HSM.

The thing is I've always thought of Fame is very much an 80s thing so a 21st century update would never be the same or have quite the impact.
 
MUCH too much rapping for my liking.
And not enough musical numbers
Dances were good but - again - not enough of them.
Some bits went a bit "High School Musical" - especially the cutsie lead actress
And they didn't make enough of the ending.

Plus... NONE OF THEM SUCEEDED! Most depressing ending ever.
 
She already had a career in the music industry in a girlband called 3lw, i actually quite like them they came out around 7/8 years ago. Then she left and the other 2 went on to become the cheetah girls for Disney.
 
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