Worth a second look

Rating: 9/10 (12 February 2012)

This movie is so under-rated. No, it may not be the most original storyline, but it contains so much more than a story about a girl who dances, and meets a guy that dances. It's about a girl who's trying to find her way in a life that suddenly gets turned right on its head. She loses her mom, her best friend and her biggest supporter, blaming herself for the accident that kills her mom. That amount of guilt would make anyone give up their dream, and Sarah is no different. She doesn't feel like she deserves to be happy anymore, like she should feel guilty for doing what she's always dreamed of doing, because of what happened. She's forced to live with a father she barely knows, and becomes part of a society she doesn't understand and doesn't fit into. And then comes Derek, the first person that cares enough to dig through the walls Sarah's built around herself. He's the first person to understand where she's coming from, and he helps her meld her world with his. It's a great movie. I've loved it since the first time I watched it--people shouldn't write it off so much. There's meat beneath the seemingly superficial salad on the surface.