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(1 - 17) of 17 OFCS Rating: 29% Rotten Page   1   "To me, this updating of the original 'Fame' beautifully highlights the joys and heartbreaks that come with dedication to the performing arts."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker D+ "What was once a neurotic, awkward climb to the summit of personal achievement has been molested into High School Musical 4. Coco would not approve."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 2/5 "The new remake of the 1980 hit 'Fame' is not going to live forever and has clearly not learned how to fly."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger F "I actually feel stupider having watched this film."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2/4 "Some of the students specialize in classical music, others in dance, and still others in singing and acting, but the one thing they all have in common is their apparent enrollment in Clichés 101."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman C- "Tries to do so much in so little time that no characters or storylines get the attention they would need to succeed."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider D "Riddled with cliches from beginning to end...[a] misguided exhumation of what was once a pretty lively piece."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "A cheesy production with underdeveloped characters that feels more like a TV pilot than a self-contained motion picture."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy "'Fame 2009' is the cinematic equivalent of Muzak and will leave many viewers longing for the next episode of TV's 'Glee.'"   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy 3/5 "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."   Time Out New York   Keith Uhlich C+ "...despite cliched characters and parents straight from central casting, the performance numbers are executed by some pretty talented kids and Megan Mullally and Bebe Neuwirth are intriguing as the school's singing and dance instructors."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "There's no time taken for their individual progress, so we don't care about these kids as individuals."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik B- "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."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 1/5 " "Fame" is content to simply repeat the key moments from the first film without any of the grit or energy that was on display the first time around."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3.5/5 "a front-row seat to a rousing Broadway production"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 5/10 "An enthusiastic yet familiarly recycled reinvention, which is kind of a shame."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger  (1 - 17) of 17 OFCS Rating: 29% Rotten Page   1