2011 Loosening of Foot

Directed by: Craig Brewer

A movie that will fire up your dancing feet, make you groove to the beat, and take you back to your first and only love. Compared to the 1984 version of Footloose, this enhanced version is updated with the most recent comic wit, dance styles, and music to help this new generation to understand this classic masterpiece. Footloose invites you to this small town that's been tainted with a tragic past, and is reliving it day after day with the ridiculous laws they enforced because of the death of the town reverend's son. Dancing is illegal along with any music the town counsel deems inappropriate or too loud.

Amid all the illegal partying and fun the youth main characters have in this movie in order to hold the viewers attention, there is a underlying meaning that rings true. Ren MacCormack, an outsider who moves into the town, takes initiative to abolish the laws that prevent everyone from expressing themselves through dance and always being reminded of the loss of a loved one. Ren spends the time to study the laws of church and state, the separation between the two, and how the people in a society should have the freedom to dance, sing and praise when and where they personally see fit. This film reminds viewers that everyone has a choice and voice in governmental situations, and the rights of humanity stand true in any situation, whether it be to able to put on a town dance or having the right to marry whomever you please.

The characters are brilliantly portrayed, from the reverend's daughter going through a identity crisis to Willard the high school comedian with redneck blood flowing strongly through his veins. There are big shoes to fill when remaking a classic film, and this 2011 reproduction of Footloose did an excellent job, if not a better one.