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A comment on inaccuracy

posted 9 years ago by nocakeforyou
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When they find the kids dancing in the water park, Owen and Roddy discuss with each other what dance styles they are using. Owen says "any juking?" and Roddy says "nah, not this far out of Memphis."

I would like to point out that Juking is a real style of dance and accompanying music, based in Chicago and also called Chicago Footwork. It is a very large culture that has spread in popularoty, but is rarely practiced outside of Chicago. It would have been great to see that they did that extra bit of research before making this movie. But of course, I'm just nitpicking in the most specific way.

[–] Moss-37 8 years ago

Well,maybe these guys were on holiday from chicargo,it can't be that exclusive,surely.It's like saying you can only dance the waltz in vienna.

[–] pdlussier1 7 years ago

What an idiot! Hey, look at the big idiot, all! He doesn't even know that Chicago is in the state of Memphis!

Joking. This is the type of informative post I like (soooo much better than those "Worst movie ever!" posts) and I really don't feel you're nitpicking pointlessly.
Personally, I pretty much know nothing about dance so that 'goof' went way over my head.
Thanks.

Ignorance is bliss... 'til it posts on the Internet, then, it's annoying.