Flashdance in the ghetto

Rating: 6/10 (6 January 2002)

The way I see it, this isn´t anything more than a Flashdance for the afro-american audience. Replace Jennifer Beals with Julia Stiles and the Flashdance´s male leadplayer with Sean Patrick Thomas, change the music from 80´s pop/rock to R&B and you´ve got Save the last dance. Let´s face it:

a girl with only one relative she has a bit contact with - occupied in the daytime so she can only train at night - an unfolding lovestory - The lovestory is troubled by the male´s family/friends - The endsequence is practically identical, including the fowlup in the audition.

They should not have copied Flashdance this close. Flashdance is a classic, this is definitely not.