Please don't spend money on this.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Nothing sells on television like seeing talented people do their thing. So a show based on New York City's High School for the Performing Arts was the basis for a classic film and a TV series that had a respectable run of five years in the 80s.The nice thing was that in a show like Fame it was never a star vehicle as such. Some of the faces from the motion picture are in the cast, but they were added and subtracted quite a bit over the run. Some sang, some dance, some played musical instruments. They all took the usual academic subjects.The faculty came and went as well. Debbie Allen was the constant, the dance teacher. Broadway composer Albert Hague was the music teacher. One of the best story lines was when a regular science teacher played by Ken Swofford got to be principal. At first he was quite baffled by the dynamics of the place, but over several episodes he got into it.Whether its Ted Mack's Amateur Hour or America's Got Talent, talent like they had in Fame always sells.

OK, fame is such a good show, its the best actually, I love all the characters, but of course my favorite is.... BRUNO! How can u not like bruno? He is the best character and you have to love his hair! Another good character is Leroy, the stubborn dancer. Leroy is a great character because that man can DANCE like no one else. The rest of the characters i like too, but my favorites are Bruno and Leroy. Who can for get the music in FAME, there was tonnes of good songs that i personally like, such as: Starmaker, Sho sho Shorfsky, High Fidelity, Desdamona, The show must go on, Murphy's Blues and Friday night.FAME 10/10

When I was a kind I started watching Fame with my mother. She used to watch that show all the time. She loved it. I bought the first season at Wal Mart for $20. It was cheap. I watched all 16 episodes in the season, and 1 thing I like about the show was at the end of the introduction, 2 women on the dance floor studio jumped and splitted their legs WIDE OPEN. That's what reminds me of having to watch that show. Even I was having to get up for school the morning after, YEARS ago. I felt pretty good about watching that show. And another part of the introduction was the quote that says "You got big dreams. You want Fame, well Fame costs. And right here is where you start paying with sweat. The title theme was great. I didn't like the end credits much, but the introduction was great, and the whole show too.

The 1980 film about the students and faculty of the New York City High School for The Performing Arts was quite good very good in fact.But its' TV namesake was anything but.The movie was fresh,fast paced,and interesting while the TV show had all the qualities you find in a situation comedy-drama it was stale and predictable.Hey why did the show have so many goofy skits and musical numbers on it?It sort of reminded you of an old Elvis Presley movie where Elvis would break into a musical number during a scene it never made sense,the kids too would break into some non-sensical music and dance number at any time.The emphasis on education,something the filmmakers did not forget,was lost on and forgotten by the makers of the TV show.The stars of "Fame" the TV show were also not up to par with the actors in the film.Carlo Impernato was the greatest no-talent to ever disgrace national TV with his presence.He couldn't really sing,dance,or act but he got plenty of lines on the show.Billy Hufsey was a decent dancer but he was bit insufferable considering all the airtime he got.He wasn't much of an actor either.The Fame TV show did some live concerts around the country when it was popular(one was shown by NBC)and it stayed around for a few years but the charm and exuberance of the movie of the same name was not apparent when watching it.It was a show that was all mass and no appeal.