Gag me with a freakin' spoon!

Rating: Null/10 (31 March 2001)

I hate to sound condescedning and judgemental, as it's against my articulate nature, but if you liked this movie, you're a lamb being led to the slaughter. (and I realize the irony of being hurtful and mean-spirited towards a movie when I say I'm not a judgemental person, but hey, this movie deserves it in spades).
MTV, perhaps one of television's lowest forms of entertainment (should I actually call it entertainment?), produces a new, hip movie for the teenage crowd. One with "slammin" dancing, insightful (ha!) looks into interracial relationships and, well, if you can't tell that I'm being sarcastic, you need to go bang your head on the driveway.
Where to start? I shouldn't even be giving this wretched excuse for a movie the time of day, but seeing as just about every lame-brained teen across the friggin' United States and the world beyond have given this movie their weak thumbs up and seal of approval, I just have to ask, why?
A white girl moves to a black majority town, and, through a series of painful, shmaltzy and MTV contrivances, learns to be black from her new, hip, black boyfriend, who also teaches the girl the true lesson of life (never give up on your dreams - ugh), and the art of hip hop dance. Oy.
To insinuate this girl made it into Julliard is downright insulting, as there are tons of dancers out there much better than her hippin' and a hoppin' who struggle just to make it to a community college! But hey, this is MTV for ya, and I never said anyone there had the brains to write a *real* story.
What irked me the most about this dough-headed movie was the plot. I'd like to see a movie where a black girl moves to a white town and learns to be white. The opening of the movie would draw black rights activists a mile long, saying that it could even be made in this PC day and age.
I'm going off track, but rightfully so... This movie gives me a headache just to think about it, so I'll go and say, don't waste your time, money or energy seeing this garbage when there are real movies out there, like Traffic, Unbreakable and Snatch, ironically three movies that never made it to the number one spot, whilst this one did. Just goes to show you the how shallow teens are today.
No stars. And if I could judge lower, I certainly would... Perhaps to the depths of hell, where this turgid mess belongs.