From different sides of the track, will dancing bring them together?

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2007)

In a theme that has been done many times in movies, a take-off of Romeo and Juliet, a boy and girl are attracted to each other via their common interest in dance. Hers is classical, including ballet, his is hip-hop street dancing. She is a serious student with a structured home life, with life goals,he is a screw up who lives in a foster home and 'borrows' cars for joy rides along with his foster brothers. His goal is to wake up out of jail tomorrow.
Channing Tatum (an accomplished athlete in high school) is Tyler Gage, and one night an opportunity via a broken window gets him and his buddies into a school auditorium, where they proceed to goof off and do lots of damage. Security manages to capture Tyler, who is then given (lucky for the plot of the movie) 200 hours community service as a janitor at the school of arts.
Pretty Jenna Dewan, a dancer, is Nora Clark, dancing student at the school. She is preparing for an end of year show, and hopes to get a dancing contract, but her partner is injured. She auditions every able bodied boy at her school, but none of them are any good. Tyler steps up, offers to help, Nora is surprised to see he has potential.
The rest of the movie involves encouragement, then discouragement, miscommunication, anger, breaking of commitment, re-commitment, all the types of things to move the plot along. So as we watch, we wonder, "Will Nora and Tyler end up together?" Most of us can guess.
The lead actors are good, and nice to watch. My wife really enjoyed this movie a lot, I enjoyed it, but at a somewhat lower level. But overall fairly well done, for its type.