Take the Lead
May. 7th, 2006 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmI normally don't find Antonio Banderas charming, but he was in this.
The dancing was really good, although not always filmed in a way that useful.
The script was flat and boring and contained about 800 too many side plots designed to illustrate that these kids had tough lives -- fewer side plots illustrating this, with more of a point to any of them would have served teh film better.
That the film's two interacial relationships were also the film's two relationships involving heavy characters (a girl known only a Big Girl and a guy known only as Mountain) was slightly weird, but really neither here nor there.
And OMG, that little white girl who decides to learn dance with the poor kids, she's a Hewitt girl! They don't name the school, but she's in their uniform through teh whole thing. Like woah! Also she looked just like my best friend from those years of my life.
I'm glad I saw it, it was fun, in spite of itself (and hello, hot hot hot tango sequence with a girl and two guys -- the whole thing is developed poorly, from the initial rivalry over he girl to whatever the hell teh resolution of it is, but it _really_ comes off as a threesome in more than a dance sense).
The dancing was really good, although not always filmed in a way that useful.
The script was flat and boring and contained about 800 too many side plots designed to illustrate that these kids had tough lives -- fewer side plots illustrating this, with more of a point to any of them would have served teh film better.
That the film's two interacial relationships were also the film's two relationships involving heavy characters (a girl known only a Big Girl and a guy known only as Mountain) was slightly weird, but really neither here nor there.
And OMG, that little white girl who decides to learn dance with the poor kids, she's a Hewitt girl! They don't name the school, but she's in their uniform through teh whole thing. Like woah! Also she looked just like my best friend from those years of my life.
I'm glad I saw it, it was fun, in spite of itself (and hello, hot hot hot tango sequence with a girl and two guys -- the whole thing is developed poorly, from the initial rivalry over he girl to whatever the hell teh resolution of it is, but it _really_ comes off as a threesome in more than a dance sense).
