Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

museumofdave "Excellent!" is a word I've heard applied to this film by so many different viewers from so many different backgrounds; one prominent New York critic refers to it as "slight and charming;" I rather think of it as "monumental and utterly mesmerizing." We observe a batch of disparate kids from various ethnicities come together as they are exposed to art, in this case the art of dancing; this is not a sugarcoated look at childhood, but a fascinating examination of what happens when dedicated teachers are able to interact with love and discipline and give kids honest self-esteem which they earn by active participation. This film is the best argument I've seen for increasing the Federal Arts Education Budget and perhaps spending a little less on bombs and already obsolete armaments; your contacts with many of the kids will leave you with a pleasant feeling, instead of feeling assaulted with car explosions, torrents of expletives and noisy special effects--this is excellent entertainment at a high level--and without condescension or sugar coating!

runamokprods Charming, funny, ultimately moving, documentary about NYC public grade school kids in ballroom dancing competition. It's inspiring to see these kids transformed by the program, where kids in thousands of NYC public schools learn ballroom dances in 5th, 6th and 7th grade, often giving them a discipline and self-respect they'd lacked before. We meet a fun, colorful array of characters (both teachers and students). On the down side, we never really get to know any of the characters deeply, only bits and sound-bites, and some moments feel staged (a suspicion bolstered by the end credit 'writer', although there is no narration, and the film is done verite style). Also, while we see how great the effect of winning is on these kids, the subject of losing, the hurt feelings, the possible damage to these same fragile egos is touched on, but never explored. We see kids crying, we hear one teacher voice concerns abut the intensity of competition at that age, but that's it. Even as an endorsement of what is clearly a terrific program for the kids, it feels like a it of a cheat to bring up such an arresting element, and then never really deal with it. Certainly worth seeing, but I can't help feeling it could have gone deeper and still been just as entertaining.

kirk-246 I first saw this movie in my Foreign Language class in the 7th grade and I hoped that I would never see this piece of trash as long as I lived.Unfortantly,I was forced to view it again in the 8th grade in the same class.I actually wanted to try to enjoy it for what it was but instead I hated it.This movie is so boring,that I can't stand the fact why students were actually forced to see this god-awful mess.The movie could've been a drama with the same plot and not a documentary.I hope the director is forced to see this movie with his eyelids open wide so he can't blink so even he knows that he never should've been involved in this piece of trash.If I could give this movie -10 stars,then I totally would.

diane-229 As I was watching this wonderful film, I couldn't help thinking that it was the first, truly positive and inspiring documentary that I had seen in a very long time. The dedication and enthusiasm of the teachers was particularly wonderful. These are people who are completely invested in these children and it was a privilege to see them. Highly recommended film. It was also extremely encouraging to hear the evaluation of one of the principals who noted that, without the ballroom dancing program, one young man quite likely would've gone on to a life of crime but - instead - had demonstrated leadership qualities (and, I believe, went on to win the contest);another young lady, who had been having discipline problems, had become well-behaved and problem-free, largely because of this program.This is an inspiring film and well worth watching.