I'm gonna live forever? Fat chance.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2010

The high school is so sanitized that there are no drugs, cutthroat competition, or-inconceivably for a theatrical milieu-no gay students.

| Oct 2, 2009

There are enough hoary soap-operatic plottings for a thousand Gossip Girls (emotionally distant parents, almost-rapes, suicide attempts), yet Tancharoen individualizes each crisis so that no one character comes off as a mock-universal surrogate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2009

It is a revealing reflection of its target audience: kids used to keeping up to date via tweets and Facebook status lines...the entire audience diagnosed with ADD.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 28, 2009

I don't mind the cornball and I don't mind the clichés, but I just think that the thing has to be executed a little better than this.

Full Review | Sep 28, 2009

The devotion to the PG rating is damning, because 8 p.m. shows airing on ABC Family can be edgier and more topical than the new "Fame."

Full Review | Sep 26, 2009

Like its gifted if excitable protagonists, Fame would have done well to stay in the classroom a bit more, rather than trolling the New York streets.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2009

It's almost fatally modest. But it has a sweet spirit, and it offers only one true moment of inadvertent camp: a (lame) finale featuring an African dance routine completely at odds with all the white bread we've just been served.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 25, 2009

There are six new songs in the remake, but not one makes any impact, or is likely to end up as the ring tone of 2010.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2009

First-time filmmaker Kevin Tancharoen struggles to flesh out the 10 characters we meet during their freshman year at PA.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 25, 2009

The production numbers are great, sometimes jaw-droppingly so.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2009

Way back in 1980, when the Oscar-winning theme song of the movie Fame declared "I'm gonna live forever," it was easy to believe the lyric was an example of artistic license. Now, it's not so clear.

| Sep 25, 2009

Nothing resonated, nothing at all, each character just a thinly constructed snapshot of a human being never given enough focus or attention to allow for growth.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2009

This film makes even the most gaudy of Saturday night 온라인카지노추천 talent contests look like Dostoyevsky in comparison.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 25, 2009

Culturally derivative, structurally bland and almost meaningless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2009

A desperate, cynical -- and most likely unsuccessful -- attempt by a dying studio to stave off oblivion by jumping on the High School Musical bandwagon, exploiting one of its legacy titles in ways that dishonor the original.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 25, 2009

The awful truth about no one from the Fame movie or 온라인카지노추천 show going on to become famous may not yet have dawned on the cast of this new and bizarrely pointless remake.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 25, 2009

"Already?" the woman behind me said plaintively when the words "Sophomore Year" flashed up on the screen. That's the joy of this Fame. Like the old ones, it convinces you that high school, if not life, should go on forever.

Full Review | Sep 25, 2009

That fame seems assured to those who merely crave it -- without sacrifice, or spiritual and physical effort -- emerges as the underlying message in this sanitized and unrewarding production. Simon Cowell has much to answer for.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 25, 2009

Fame offers slick entertainment with some exuberance, but it's devoid of soul or heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2009