Fame
The New York Academy of Performing Arts is a grueling school for aspiring students looking to achieve the highest heights in the performing arts world. Every year thousands of hopeful students apply to the school, only a small handful get in. Instructed by stern but caring mentors such as Joel Cranston (Kelsey Grammer), Fran Rowan (Megan Mullally), and Lynn Kraft (Bebe Neuwirth), the students are grilled from day one until graduation, prepping to become some of the best dancers, actors, and musicians in the world. But who will graduate and who will go on to fame? 
In this updated script based on the 1980’s film of the same name, there’s certainly a lot of spirit, and there’s a fair amount of similarity to the original; unfortunately, there’s not a lot of new material, that hasn’t already been explored many times over since either. The dancing and the music are both updated, but realistically only the dance comes across as worth while, even then, many scenes feel edited to be too hip for their own good. Overall a Disney-esque film with more of a realistic outlook seems to be the outcome. Maybe worthwhile for aspiring artists as a matinee. Fame is rated PG.