Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

SnoopyStyle Various students audition and eventually complete the four years in the High School of Music & Art in NYC. Principal Angela Simms (Debbie Allen) leads a faculty that includes drama teacher Mr. Dowd (Charles S. Dutton), dance teacher Ms. Kraft (Bebe Neuwirth), singing teacher Ms. Rowan (Megan Mullally) and music teacher Mr. Cranston (Kelsey Grammar).The movie simply has too many people and tries to go through too much time. The original has the advantage of being original. Instead of diving into one or two of these characters, the feel is scattered and the four year span doesn't help. It's the same structure as the original but once again, the original was original back then. There is also a cleaning up of the original in this G-rated version. So it's not even as good or edgy as the original and lots of these Step Up Dance Up movies have been made since then. None of this is memorable.

MishMash88 First of all let me make this clear; I LOVE MUSICALS. Even when they're not great, a little song and dance always gives me something to look forward to in a movie. Second of all, let me make this also clear; my expectation of a remake is never set too high. Same as sequels, very rarely do they capture the magic of the original movie.So I didn't watch this movie expecting to be blown away, to be honest I barely expected anything; but somehow it managed to disappoint. Really.The actors all look the same, well at least the boys do, they're all safe, mediocre choices. And that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the movie- safe and mediocre. They tried to have all the components of a hit (complete with a hip hop performance); teenage drama, success, failure, betrayal and even a make over. But the lack of emotional depth in all the characters (even the angry kid whose sister got killed) and story lines makes you lose interest half way through.Sorry Fame 2.0, you sucked.

Jetset971 Man, watching this tripe filled remake of the vastly superior 1980 version of "Fame" made me want to just abandon this disaster and break out the older flick. To be fair, at least they didn't just rip off the old characters and story lines and transplant them over. On the hand, considering what we are left with here, maybe they should have. Despite the acting caliber of Grammar,Newerth, and Dutton, it still suffers from a bad TV movie script. Were is the gritty realism of the 1980 film? I know they wanted to keep this version a PG, but that just destroyed all the things that made the original work. This lame, tame, tepid remake just makes you walk away with a curse on your lips. What a lousy film.

smcgann14 This film is just awful. I didn't want to see it, but my mom did want to see it. I did like musicals, so I went. It was like "Rent" or "In the Heights", without lovable characters, a good plot, or necessary development. The only good feeling was an awkward Megan Mullaly singing. By the way, why is Megan Mullaly in this movie?! The same goes for Kesley Grammar. And Debbie Allen. Well, she was in the original movie, but she shouldn't be in this movie still. At only one point did I think. I was thinking of better times than this!!! Just take my word for it. If you read my reviews, I just praise everything. Well, not this time! Just an awful, terrible movie. The worst movie of 2009.