Review of Fame (1978) by Victor L — 02 Nov 2008

Watches like a high budget documentary of kids pursuit of fame- and the hard work and trauma that they go through in high school for the performing arts.

The characters are easily relatable and the drama is there, but doesn't get into the melodramatic. I have only 2 complaints against this- the first one being the ending was very rushed and we didn't get any closure on Coco after being taken advantage of by that skeeze (a scene that gets parodied many times over now) and then the dance sequences the actors break out into always appear like a mass epileptic fit- there is no direction to their motion to where it was like the director just said "do what you want!". It's laughable there is a credited choreographer to this movie.