Well, this was one of those guilty pleasure/curiosity killed the cat/E is sick and has become one with the Chase and requires something only slightly better then Everybody Loves Raymond re-runs to keep her catatonic mind occupied while recuperating from the flu and hey- if we don't rent it right now we probably never will.
In other words, my movie-whore nature got the best of me once again. This one was made-for-TV-movie bad. Absolutely everything was color by numbers. In the beginning I think they were just doing things because they knew they had to, because that was the plot they needed to set in motion. Actions were not motivated at all. The girl needs a dance partner and immediately selects the guy washing the windows doing community service (because the Freshman and sophomore dance academy students are too inexperienced. Right.... and yet she had to teach him up from basic ballet). It was totally like Wayne looking around the recording studio and naming artists.... Areosmith... Sting... Old man fashioning a Kayak out of a block of wood. No! His only qualification was he had the upper-body strength to lift her and he did a few dance-club spins and she is Bang!- into the principals office lobbying for him to be her partner.
But of course he hasn't yet learned to finish things and be there for people who depend on you, so he flakes out a few times, and learns to dance via-montage, and then they get close, but her boyfriend gets jealous, so he has to become a dick and leave her for the plot's sake so it is ok for her to be with danceman. Then something bad happens to an expendable friend character, Mom shows up to support her at the 0-hour and together they pull off the dance and, whattaya know, she gets offered a job.
Every step of the way they were just doing things because they had to. Absolutely nothing was natural at all. The plot was about on the level of a Scary Movie sequel, you know where they go to an old house in Japan and you instantly say 'ok, here comes the Grudge scene and you get ready to see the most memorable aspects of the grudge like the creepy green hand and the weird pale dark haired Japanese kid. Ok, well same thing here (here comes the turns his back on her scene only to go back later but it's too late she moved on...) the only difference is that Scary Movie is trying to be funny, this movie is trying to be serious.
Trying, and failing. Utterly predictable, bland, boring, worthless drivel.
I think I need to see something with some substance. and soon.
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