Fame Teaser Trailer

Where I Completely Lose the Desire to Live Forever

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (40)

Here’s the teaser trailer for Kevin Tanchoroen’s remake of Fame. Funny thing: I don’t feel very teased. In fact, I find it striking that, though Kelsey Grammar, Bebe Neuwirth, Megan Mullally, Debbie Allen, and Charles Dutton headline this turd, they’re nowhere to be found in the teaser.

You remember last year when we announced they were remaking Fame? And remember how we all expected that it would blow turkey wabbles? Well, before you watch the teaser, set your expectations even lower. No. Lower. Seriously: Lower. Oh screw it, you’re still going to be disappointed:

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I thought they already remade this movie. It was called American Idol. No, So You Think You Can Dance. No, wait, um ... Project Runway.

It's on every frickin' night of every frickin' week. Is this movie necessary?

Posted by: Duane at April 2, 2009 5:37 PM

Can somebody help me pick the rest of my melted face up off the floor, because I accidentally opened the Ark of the Covenant. I thought I was just clicking on a link to a trailer.

Posted by: annoyingmouse at April 2, 2009 5:42 PM

You know, at a completely theoretical level Bebe and Kelsey make sense because I could see them playing Sherwood and Shorofsky, but what the hell is Mullaly whatsherface annoying ass DOING there?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 2, 2009 5:43 PM

Good singer, terrible lyrics, the acting's bound to blow, it's a remake for fucks sake.

Yeah, this movie will suck.

Posted by: George at April 2, 2009 5:45 PM

No, this movie is absolutely NOT necessary.

On an unrelated note, that advertisement with the evil-faced baby is freaking me out big time.

Posted by: tt_marie at April 2, 2009 5:47 PM

Theres a morning train that gets into Chicago at 1 or an evening train that gets in at 11 pm.

I used to always take the Monday morning train - - you get in to the station right around 9 and it is a five minute walk to the Sears. You could pack really light b/c I have most everything you need???

Posted by: tt_marie at April 2, 2009 5:49 PM

Whoops, sorry about that. That wasn't meant for Pajiba.

Posted by: tt_marie at April 2, 2009 5:50 PM

I can't even bring myself to feel any more than mild annoyance at this movie. If they're going to make movie-musicals, at least get people to write some new ones.

Posted by: That Girl at April 2, 2009 5:54 PM

Whoops, sorry about that. That wasn't meant for Pajiba.

That's the funniest thing I've ever read here, especially because of its innocuousness.

This movie makes me glad for that modern term "fuckery", since that's what it is. I don't even like the original, so this is doubly unnecessary for my well-being. Now get us some news on that Castlevania movie.

Posted by: Jay at April 2, 2009 6:10 PM

One of the best parts of the original was the fact that most of the kids looked normal. Not beautiful, not ugly, just normal. This lloks like they cast the leftovers from one of those stupid modeling contest shows.

Sigh. When is hollyweird going to stop desecrating my teenhood?

Posted by: lateformyfuneral at April 2, 2009 6:14 PM

Honestly it looks better than the original. Just sayin'. *ducks to avoid incoming tomatoes*

Posted by: Quincy at April 2, 2009 6:54 PM

That seems like a lot of hetero romance for a performing arts school . . .

Posted by: will at April 2, 2009 6:57 PM

It looks like Moulin Rouge! and Chicago gangbanged High School Musical and they all had a celebutard. Now that my morbid curiosity is appeased I can go on forgetting this movie exists.

Posted by: TylerDFC at April 2, 2009 7:03 PM

Most of the kids in the original looked just like the drama geeks I went to school with, which is why every single one of them identified hard core and had an annoying habit of breaking into song in the hallways of the art building. Why did they have to repackage this, gloss it up, and sell it to a new generation of drama geeks. Wasn't the whole High School Musical franchise enough? Jeezy creezy.

Posted by: Leigh Hacksaw at April 2, 2009 7:06 PM

Oh. My. God.
I'm torn between feeling sick and becoming incredibly violent.
Violently ill?

I don't like this, not one bit.

Posted by: Sharon at April 2, 2009 7:07 PM

I'm saving my true and utter anger for when the eventual tagline comes out: The ORIGINAL High School Musical!. If I'm not a puddle of anger and sorrow, then I must be pretty good at ignoring such travesties. Fame was kind of cheesy, but dammit, as an actor, you cannot help but relate to the movie in some way. And it made you feel that you too could be like these kids! I'm expecting a predominantly hetro abortion of an eighties classic set for the Disney tweener crowd. Goodbye all of the racy material from the source material. This is gonna blow, I can sense it. Even the hip hop remake of the title song gets me ill.

Posted by: Kamikaze Feminist at April 2, 2009 7:15 PM

Oh my.

Why, hollywood, why?

Jay, fuckery indeed.

Posted by: redhead at April 2, 2009 7:18 PM

My baby takes the morning train.
He works from nine till five and then,
He takes another home again.
To find me waitin' for him.

Oops, sorry. Did I sing that out loud?

Posted by: A Bowl Of Stupid at April 2, 2009 7:19 PM

I thought I remember that we all decided that the original really sucks so no matter how shitty this remake (or is it a re-boot?) is, it won't even hit a 2 on the rage-ometer. Did we all not agree on this? Now the remake of Total Recall, that is fucking right-wing tea bag party/stuck on the 405 in the summer rage.

Posted by: Handel at April 2, 2009 7:20 PM

The original movie and subsequent series had "that guy" you know the one, the one who would, during ANY musical number would jump 20 feet in the air and do a split in front of the camera shot.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 2, 2009 7:24 PM

I'm slightly ashamed to admit I recognized her, but one of the main girls there was on So You Think You Can Dance last summer, Kherington Payne. Kinda awesome name, mediocre dancer, and an irritatingly large amount of self-importance. Actually, now that I think about it, she's probably perfect for a craptastic remake of Fame.

Posted by: Adrienne at April 2, 2009 7:29 PM

Adrienne, don't feel bad. I recognized her, too. But you admitted it first, loser!

Posted by: Sharon at April 2, 2009 7:43 PM

I can tell you one thing, the Devil sure won't like this!

Posted by: Anne at April 2, 2009 8:04 PM

Heh. Unless the girl singing the theme song is going to be crying while taking off her shirt in front of some weird guy's video camera while all the while having thoughts of her gay boyfriend Leroy (which how in the hell did I not realize just how gay he was as a child? And how in the hell did he manage to get a ballerina pregnant when he was so gay that he most likely had an allergic reaction to the pussy?) and just how far she will go to be FAMOUS, I am so not interested.

Besides. There was no Debby Allen telling them how much "fame costs and right here is where you start paying...in sweat". So, yeah EPIC FAIL.

Jesus, I just became one of those people who say the word 'fail' when they think something is going to suck.

Besides

Posted by: cmoody at April 2, 2009 8:04 PM

Didn't the original kind of suck-ish acting wise because the actors were all actual dancers, not actual actors? Or am I making that up? I do that sometimes...

Posted by: totally not Anna von Beaverplatz at all at April 2, 2009 8:32 PM

am i really the only one who thinks this looks amazing? so be it. i will be seeing this bundle of choreographed, spontaneously bursting into song, awesomeness--and i will love it. even if there is no Leroy.

Posted by: pq at April 2, 2009 9:04 PM

Didn't the original kind of suck-ish acting wise because the actors were all actual dancers, not actual actors?

Was that Chorus Line?

My memory of the original is that it was awful. And I was a big drama geek - I even went to that theater camp that was in the movie Camp and tried to figure out how I could get my parents to let me live with my 28-year-old cousin in Harlem so I could go to the School of Performing Arts.

So if *I*, theater hag I was, didn't like it, it must have REALLY sucked. So I'm not so pissed off about this remake, as lame as it looks.

Posted by: The essence of fanciness and class at April 2, 2009 9:48 PM

The problem with remaking this movie is that the every other dance movie that's ever come out since is a carbon copy of the original. So remaking it is kinda... redundant.

Posted by: jess at April 2, 2009 9:58 PM

cmoody made me pee a little.

Posted by: Lainey at April 2, 2009 10:05 PM

I went to a college with a large dance program and a tall dorm. If you ever had to hold your breath for 18 floors, stopping at Every.Fucking.Floor, with a load of dance majors fresh (wrong word) out of a studio, while they prattled on about "Are you having performance? I'm having performance" ...

Well, you'd fucking want to fucking set fire to fucking "Fame," its fucking remake, and everyfuckingone ever associated with it directly and tangentially, and their fucking families, and their fucking friends, and their fucking acquaintances.

Is all I'm saying.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 3, 2009 12:43 AM

Didn't the original kind of suck-ish acting wise because the actors were all actual dancers, not actual actors? Or am I making that up? I do that sometimes...

That's not enough these days. Apparently now you have to be a triple threat. Except the definition of triple threat is someone who can sing and dance a bit who they put in movies to recite lines whilst attempting to make actressin' faces.

Posted by: rach at April 3, 2009 3:57 AM

I honestly can't remember ever laughing as hard and attempting to conceal the noise it produces so late at night than when I read these hilarious comments just now.

God I love you people...

Posted by: Beckster "tri-tip" Goddess at April 3, 2009 4:09 AM

Adri and Sharon, the joke's on me. I've known about Kherington's role here since it first got to the tubes, so, I'm the major sucker.

I'll still watch this, though. Hell, I'll watch anything just for one single develope.

Posted by: Miss A at April 3, 2009 5:36 AM

That looks like a disney editor got ridiculously high and edited together 'Camp Rock' and the start of Hannah Miley Destiny Ray Hope Cyrus Betsy Loo Who Montana, then panicked and slapped a 'Fame: The New Class' stick on the front of the reel.

Posted by: Nieve at April 3, 2009 9:00 AM

I'm there because I never miss a Channing Tatum dance film. Wait, this isn't STEP UP 3?

Posted by: Andrew at April 3, 2009 9:27 AM

Leroy was gay?

Posted by: courtney at April 3, 2009 9:39 AM

Unless they bring in Debbie Allen and her disciplinary cane, I'm.not.watching.it.

PLUS that damn child singing in the beginning changed the lyrics! It's STRONG people, STRONG. Not thrown. Jeez.

I was always amazed Leroy could fit his bulging thighs into jeans. It looked hella uncomfortable and yet kinda hot.

Posted by: amanda47 at April 3, 2009 9:59 AM

A Bowl of Stupid - First thing that popped into my head too!!!

Posted by: missh at April 3, 2009 10:30 AM

"I thought they already remade this movie. It was called American Idol. No, So You Think You Can Dance. No, wait, um ... Project Runway.

It's on every frickin' night of every frickin' week. Is this movie necessary"

The funny part is that one of the contestants from So You Think You Can Dance, Kherington Payne, has a main role in this movie. I nearly shit my pants when I saw the trailer...I was like, "no it can't be....IT CAN'T BEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

So yeah, this is definitely going to be one of those movie where most of the young "stars" are chosen due to their skills rather than acting talent.

Posted by: citizen_cris at April 3, 2009 4:35 PM

the acting looks ridiculous, but I am going to have to see this on video because I am pretty much a whore when it comes to dancing in movies. I'll see almost anything, including Save the Last Dance, just to watch the dance performances.

I'm only kind of embarrassed about it...

Posted by: icyn2 at April 3, 2009 11:22 PM

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