StreetDance – A Guilty Pleasure

In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.

Let me be quite frank, the storyline of this film goes a little like this:

Girl is going out with a jerk, jerk leaves girl, jerk uses girl, nice guy punches jerk, girl realises she actually likes nice guy.  That is pretty much it, with a dance competition to beef up.

Nicola Burley and Richard Windsor

The story line is poor, some of the acting is truly horrendous, not that there is that much, speaking is minimal which helps ease the pain.   BUT, the dancing is amazing.  And I certainly did not watch this film twice last night (back to back) because the dancing is AMAZING.

So if you can endure the “acting”, the stereotypical Street Dancers talk “street” (innit) and are super cool, and Ballet Dancers are so posh the the local greengrocer has run out of plums (and any other fruit currently being stocked) and are so uptight they make a ruler look bent, and you ignore some of the frankly hideous choice of clothing (on both sides), I think you could enjoy this film.

Charlotte Rampling and George Sampson

If that’s not enough, be distracted by brilliant performances by  Charlotte Rampling and George Sampson (that boy can dance!) and enjoy watching the toned, and frequently skantily glad, bodies flashing about on screen instead!

About Fanny Brown

Writer of that best selling novel you haven't read yet... mainly because I haven't written it yet, but in the mean time you can read the rubbish my brain produces on here!
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