Justine's World of Films: Center Stage: Turn it up

I had a dance-movie-marathon with one of my friends last night. Since there are only few dance movies left that we haven't seen, we decided to rent 'Honey' with Jessica Alba. Unfortunately, this particular dvd was nowhere to be found. We came along another -rather unknown- one called 'Center Stage: Turn it up' and decided to go with that one.

Story: All self-taught dancer Kate Parker has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Academy of Ballet (ABA). She didn't get in however after auditioning. So she looks for a job and with the help of male dancer named Tommy who díd get in at the ABA gets one in a hip-hop club after showing her own hip-hop skills. Together with his and her sisters help she may just find the passion she needs to make her dreams come true.

It wasn't a bad movie, it had some laughter and Rachel Brooke Smith, who plays Kate, did a pretty good job, seeing that this was her very first acting job. My friend and I had a disagreement over her love interest in the movie, she was very pro-Tommy, but he had an earring and his character was a too-good-a-guy, whilst he didn't look as a good guy and just didn't came over like one. So I thought she should end up with one of the ABA's teachers (a young one, don't worry) who was very nice and also quite good looking. We made a comparison between these guys and the guys from Pride and Prejudice. I said Tommy was Wickham, the attractive seemingly good guy but is just not right for her on the inside and the teacher being Darcy, cause she couldn't stand him at first.

I'm straying off. Let's talk about the music. The music was great, it really was a great soundtrack. The dancing: pretty much every actor are clearly great dancers rather than expierenced actors. So the dancing was very good. There was plenty of chemistry between the lead couple's relationship, they were very natural with each other.

Watch it with friends.