So So movie

Rating: 5/10 (16 June 2002)

A lot of cliches, a bit too preachy about the plight in the hood and the MTV/street derived contemporary performance that got her into Julliard makes this film a little hard to swallow whole heartedly. Otherwise, the movie is OK. Chemistry wasn't really there, just a lot of one to one dancing leading up to the romance. And we don't really know if she started doing hip-hop to fit in or she genuinely was interested in it. Maybe they should have focused a little more on her experience in school and how she coped. Nobody goes to a new school, get hooked up and become buddies on the first day. And what's with those preppy whites in the school? I would have presumed it would have been Eastern European immigrants who would be stuck there.