It's a fine movie - nothing amazing, but nothing horrible either

Rating: 8/10 (11 October 2004)

Ye gods, lots of bitter folk reviewing this. It is nowhere near as bad as the other reviewers would have you believe.
Alright, let's break it down - it's a hip-hop movie, so of course:
* It involves street dance.
* It involves kids being kept off the street through the sheer power of dance and corn-rows.
* There is, of course, a predictably attractive heroine with a heart of gold (why aren't there ever ugly heroines with hearts of gold?)
* There is an evil bad man who offers the heroine one thing but then tries to give her another.
and wait for it!
* there's a fund raising DANCE at the end!
... but aside from it being a predictable hip-hop flick, it's a FUN hip-hop flick. Terminator 3 was god-awfully predictable too, yet for whatever reason people don't rip into it quite the same way as a predictable movie not in the action genre.
This is most definitely a chick flick. You'll need to enjoy dancing to "get" it, or at least go with someone that does (that you can relate to). If you're bitter, or can only enjoy movies where people explode into technicolor displays of blood and guts - then of course you're not going to like a feel-good dancing movie, stay far away, why are you even reading this review?