It’s hard to imagine that any remake could out-shine the original Footloose featuring Kevin Bacon however I love watching any sort of modern dance movie. The fact that this movie was also free was just an added bonus. For a remake this wasn’t actually too bad. Interestingly the 2011 remake is garnering a better rating than it’s 1984 counterpart on famed review website Rotten Tomatoes.

The story lines are fairly similar – city boy moves to country town where a the Council and the Reverend has banned loud music and dancing. I can’t remember why he decided to ban it in the 1984 movie but the reason given in the updated version was that five kids had been killed in an accident a few years back after a night out. Of course city boy, whose only escape is dance, seeks to rebel and overturn this whilst at the same time falling for, course, the Reverend’s daughter.

Entertaining and heart-warming – who doesn’t love a good old fashioned love story – the dancing was very alright as well featuring actual professional dancers Kenny Wormald (as the lead) opposite Julianne Hough.