entertaining, but still stereotypical

Rating: Null/10 (16 January 2001)

i entered this film very skeptical. being a teenage boy, the previews for this film portrayed it as your classic chick flick with a lot of airheaded twenty-year olds playing adolescent kids. i was presently suprised to see that this film was more than that. the scripting, the dancing, and the movie was all done very well and way beyond normal mtv standards (i try to forget movies like "bevis and butthead do america" or "the wood" even exist). Sean Patrick Thomas was great in the male lead, very calm and cool, i think we will see him again soon. although this film was suprisingly good, it still managed to throw african-americans into a stereotypical environment. unless you are a genius heading for georgetown, your only hopes are to be a drugdealer, and gangbanger, or an unwed mother going nowhere. i felt that it still portrayed the black society as one that in uneducated and unwanted.
all in all, i did end up enjoying this film and it is a great date movie, but the stereotypes behind the dancing are still difficult to see past.