Take the Lead

[rm]

I 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).

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yup. There's also a long tradition in film of tangos for four (generally 1 woman and three men). It's sort of bizarre. There's a digression on it somewhere in the DVD exrtas of Moulin Rouge or the Red Curtain Trilogy box set (not that those extras aren't one long, insane digression, but that's a seperate matter).

[melebeth]

Now I have to decide if I'm willing to suggest to the gods that Moulin Rouge is tolerable by renting the DVD just to look at the extras. I LOATHED that movie, primarily because they spent all this time on what looked like fabulous choreography and then filmed it in a way that made it moot.

[rm.livejournal.com]

My Australia _thing_ is entirely Baz Luhrmann's fault.

But I do hear you.

Anyway, let me figure out if it's on the extra red curtain disk or the extra moulin rouge disk, and I'll let you know in case you do want to rent it.