I saw it anyway, hoping for a surprise. I guess it just wasn't my lucky day. When her mother dies, Sara is so crushed that she gives up dancing. She is sent to live with her estranged father in urban Chicago. There's nothing in this film that can't be seen from the comfort of your living room.
Many scenes are no more than an excuse to show some barely legal flesh.
The scantily clad grinding clearly serves only to rouse the hormones of an adolescent audience. The great majority of characters are simple cookie-cutter stereotypes. They're predictable, unmemorable and downright irritating in their blandness. Thomas' character, is both intriguing and admirably portrayed. Stiles, however, seems to have stumbled into her role.