musical enchantment

Rating: 8/10 (24 October 2004)

This movie was wonderful. Please, if you are reading This and have Not seen it-go! Right now. A wonderful and exhilarating movie, strongly underrated.
This movie is about finding yourself through the power of dance. It is beautifully filmed, sweetly sentimental without at all being maudlin and the dance scenes are equisite. Now if one is not a fan of movies that center on dancing they may not like this but I think all should give it a chance as it will probably charm you. There is One dance sequence between Gear and Lopez that will take your breath away.
The movie is an ode to the power of dancing and you do not have to be a fan of ballroom dancing to easily love this movie. I had a more enjoyable time watching this on the big screen then almost any film I've yet seen in 2004. Even JLO who I've never been particularly impressed by, was great here as the fragile dance instructor. Gear and Sarandon deliver as always but it is the quirky supporting cast I recommend you watch for. This movie is not by the numbers-you will not always be able to guess what is gonna happen. It is funny, touching, completely different from other films out there now, contains great dance sequences and virtually all it's characters are humanized in a way that will be relateable to almost everyone. I give this an 8.5 as a whole but a 10 of 10 for pure enjoyment purposes. Watching this is absolutely exhilarating and movies like this should be made more often.