LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

BeCharlene Great show! I just love it. I own the first season & watch it over & over....also watch it with my grandchildren. It lights up ones dreams, and gives you the feeling to "Go For It"; and it just makes you want to sing & dance! Release all seasons, please! More kids need to be introduced to the arts, and this show does that and more. This show allows one to see feelings expressed through a song, and moved through dance. It shows personalities and emotions, and allows the students to grow, as their talent grows and as they work with their fellow students. It also teaches them to appreciate the talents of others, and what the other students go through to explore their talent. The students learn to work hard at their craft, feel excited to perform, and also to accept the fact that they must compete, and that sometimes, someone else is better in that particular situation. The kids in the show also learn to learn, about themselves, about their teachers, their teachers ambitions, about why they must learn other subjects, and grow with education, as well as their talent. The show has heart, it has a way of touching the viewers, especially ones who dream of being a performer. It isn't one of those shows where you have to send the kids out of the room during certain scenes, which is cool. The show offers us enlightenment about so many things, and I believe that is important too. You have a show with some very talented people..... young & old. The guests on the show are some of the greatest entertainers we have. The actors are young kids, doing a television show, but they are also real people with real talent that have gone on in life and been a successful performer in the real world. The story plots are good, they are believable to the viewers, and they reach our kids. The talent in this show is fantastic and you find yourself connecting to the students and to the teachers. Kids of today should be able to see this show! I want to see this show!

Theo Robertson FAME was a show that was very popular with my peers as a 15 year old in 1982. I used to watch it myself and did enjoy it for the most part though I wouldn`t confess to anyone I did . The appeal was that it was a very feelgood show that would always start with one of the students composing a ditty then everyone joining in , next thing you know the whole fame academy would have massed ranks of singers dancing about in a real funky way . Then we`d get a storyline which nearly always involved the black kid Leroy Johnson and domestic issues . Then we`d get a serious solo number at the end of the episode , everyone would be friends again and Leroy would live happily ever after , or at least untill the next episode . I should point out that I`m referring to the first two series because I didn`t realise the show continued untill as late as 1987 , but by the time the last series was aired on the BBC it had been scheduled opposite CORONATION STREET on early evening Wednesdays which is a BBC graveyard slot so I`ve no idea what the later episodes were like and I have very nasty feeling that if I watched an episode of FAME as a 36 year old I`d find it camp and cheesy so I`ll keep the show as a distant teenage memory

Nozz With plenty of time at its disposal, the series could give us a better-developed Sharofsky/Martelli relationship, a less frantic and exaggerated Doris, and in general a better look at the characters. The movie scarcely had time to give us a quick glimpse of each of the kids before forcing them one by one into crisis.

kathleen_witt "Fame" had some of the most talented young people of the 1980s. Gene Anthony Ray and Debbie Allen are two of the most gifted dancers I have ever seen. The show, while not totally realistic, was always entertaining, heartwarming, and just fun to watch. I recently watched the movie "Fame" which inspired the TV show, and I wonder where those talented actors are today. "Fame" was one of the best shows on TV and I wish that there were more like it today.