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MOVIE REVIEWS FAME

If audiences react the way critics have to the remake of the 1980 version of Fame , Leo the Lion will have to go back into hibernation at MGM. The first movie to be released this year by the struggling studio is being pummeled in virtually every major review. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times comments that "the new Fame is a sad reflection of the new Hollywood, where material is sanitized and dumbed down for a hypothetical teen market that is way too sophisticated for it. It plays like a dinner theater version of the original." Many of the critics observe that the movie looks more like a remake of High School Musical than the original movie. Lou Lumenick in the New York Post suggests that it ought to have been titled Lame rather than Fame and describes it as "a desperate, cynical -- and most likely unsuccessful -- attempt by a dying studio to stave off oblivion by jumping on the High School Musica l bandwagon, exploiting one of its legacy titles in ways that dishonor the original." And Michael Sragow concludes in the Baltimore Sun "The only unpredictable thing about this movie is the all-encompassing totality of its banality."

25/09/2009