enjoyable crap

Rating: 5/10 (13 April 2007)

For anyone who's ever seen a movie, there are no surprises in this film. Everything about it is predictable, including the death of one of the protagonist's friends. The plot is as thin as Kleenex, but the dancing IS quite good. I'm at least 3 times the age of the target demographic for this film, and -- surprise to me -- I actually liked the music! The big obstacle to my enjoyment of the non-dancing part of the film was the central character. For the first half of the movie I thought he was a reprehensible, thieving, moron who should be shot on sight, saving the state in which he lived the trouble of executing him later. By the end he had improved in my eyes slightly, but not much. Through the entire film I was hoping he'd eventually appear in some pants which actually fit him, and ditch the bleeping backwards ballcap while dancing. This is an idiotic youth film which happens to employ some good dancers. I was deeply surprised to see Rachel Griffiths in this film, as her work with which I'm familiar is much edgier, has much more of an independent energy. This is decent entertainment if you love dance, but at the bottom of my personal list of dance movies.