Movie seemed ok at first and hit the cliché wall big time. I really don't know why I sat through this.
These good actors were being punished or something. Nothing but promoting "beats" headphones, lame dub step remixes at the dance contests, story was rushed...
It went beyond cliché and into its own little world.
Nothing gets resolved except the secondary plot.
-Nam
I am on the road less traveled...
"Hit the cliche wall big time" - YOU SAID IT! This movie was like a cartoon of previous movies.
Watched it with a friend and we spontaneously broke out laughing at the scene where the New York club kid charges in and takes over the small town gymnasium DJ booth, instantly resuscitating the school dance team (is this really a thing now?) with his "sick beats", causing them to finally win a competition. At this point, you just know that next comes the dance team pursuing him saying "We need your music to get to the state championships!" and he's going to be resistant to helping them because he came to this small town to be anonymous while he works through his problems...It doesn't matter that you can find millions of nearly identical mash-ups of that flavorless and tedious electronica dance music all over the internet, they need HIS music. Yeah.
It may seem foolish to pick on a movie that's obviously aimed at "tweens" - but I think Hollywood owes the kids something better than this.
I would like to start a list of elements this movie stole from other movies, please feel free to add:
1. The town that's "given so much" to the defense of this nation - The Majestic
2. Outsider who comes to town and liberates it through dance - Footloose
3. The whole teen boy/therapist thing, including the climactic, cathartic leveling of accusations at one another scene - Ordinary People
4. Already embalmed, undead leading man - the Twilight Movies
5. The high school dance team competition plot was obviously a rip off of the cheer leading team in Bring It On, which has been ripped off many times in many ways, but always in movies (like this) that are humorless and take themselves totally seriously, where Bring It On was consciously self-satirical.
6. Where have I seen that thing where the teen basically takes care of her self and her younger siblings while her mom delusionally sleep-walks through life? It's kind of a recurring thing in teen-flattery movies, isn't it?
Please, if you've seen this movie, add to the list.
I agree it isn't for everyone, but I liked it.
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