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Fame (2009)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C Source Brief Review Grade* Boston Globe Wesley Morris "Original Fame is the one to remember." more... C   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "Why bother to remake Fame if you don't have clue about why the 1980 movie was special?" more... C   Chicago Tribune Matt Pais "Frankly, dawg, this flat remake is a little pitchy." more... C- E! Online Peter Paras "...this one's all fame, no journey." more... C+ Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum "...unnecessarily tepid..." more... C   Filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell "The young cast attending the fictional New York High School of Performing Arts is uniformly great." more... B   Hollywood Reporter Stephen Farber "This remake is not destined to live forever." more... C   New York Times Andy Webster "While Fame suffers from a surfeit of flash, it nonetheless offers the undeniable power of young performers pursuing art at peak dexterity." more... C   Reelviews James Berardinelli "...there are too many characters and too long a time span for any story to achieve critical mass." more... C   USA Today Claudia Puig "...devoid of soul or heart." more... C   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)