Movie Review: Remake won’t achieve ‘Fame’

 

Published: September 25, 2009

"Fame,” the new take on the terrific 1980 musical film about students at New York’s High School of Performing Arts , doesn’t flunk out, exactly. But it never earns better than a C.

And that’s a shame, because the first 20 minutes of Kevin Tancharoen ’s remake suggest it could have been as good as the original.

Allison Burnett’s screenplay borrows the structure of the earl...


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