This 2006 biopic is based on the life of Pierre Dulaine, a ballroom dance instructor who gets the idea to teach New York City troubled high school kids how to ballroom dance. Antonio Banderas plays the Dulaine character, and after seeing a crime, tracks down the kids school, takes over their detention, gains their respect, convinces them to dance, and takes them to a city-wide competition. This is all rather formulaic, more so, I am sure, than Dulaine's actual experience. The characters in the film are all in detention, but are all really budding stars working hard to better their lives and are in detention for some reason other than being bad kids or doing bad things. Add to this the fact that the dance was only secondary in the action. Instead, there was lots of talking about dancing and thinking about dancing, and we viewed snippets of dancing. I much preferred Street Dance II although the fact that I can actually have a "favorite dance movie I have seen this week" does concern me a bit.
2 stars (out of 5)
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