Honey (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: Honey
Review: This movie really sucks. The dancing was good but the story is really bad. Jessica Abla does not know how to act. She is very cheesie. She looks good but that about it. If i could give it a zero or worst i would.

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Summary: Love the movie!
Review: I like hip hop and stuff so I really enjoyed this movie! I was watching it w/a friend from work and her two yr old daughter and boy did her daughter move to the music! There are many amazing moves in this movie and I was wishing I had her moves. This was an inspiring movie and since I'm an emotional person, I almost cried. If you wanna learn moves, watch this! Jessica also inspired me to go for my goals in life like she did!

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Summary: One of the best movies this year
Review: I thought is was a very good movie that i could watch over and over. I do not care what other people said about this movie, if i were you i would rent it and see if you like it for yourself and if you do then buy it.

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Summary: Alba's SO talentless and tasteless...
Review: First off the movie-predictable, shallow with horrible acting. I knew that going in but figured Jessica alba would be worth it and my girlfriend liked it so I got the DVD... If you watch all the way through the outtakes the director sneaks in some footage of Jessica being really snotty to Lil' Bow Wow. "Could you please stop touching me!" she says to the playful boy on the set. That right there blows it for me.

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Summary: Hello? AWSOME MOVIE!
Review: I dont know what all of you are talking about, it must have been guys reviewing it...i loved this movie. it had awsome music just like save the last dance and a cool story line but without having to watch julia stiles's crappy acting. i realy liked it, its a movie that you can watch repedtedly untill your boyfriend goes insane and throws it out the window. GREAT MOVIE!!!

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Summary: Too predictable for my taste!
Review: Honey is a sickly sweet teen-orientated dance-drama, drawn from the same cheesy mould as Glitter, Showgirls, and Staying Alive. There is absolutely nothing original about this cliché-soaked movie, which tells the story of a dancing bartender who dreams of the bright lights.

Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) works as a bartender at night. During the day, she also works in a record store, and in the afternoons, volunteers, teaching dance classes to underprivileged urban kids. When not helping to keep street kids off drugs and comforting old ladies, Honey dreams of becoming a dancing superstar.

After being 'discovered' while dancing in the club that she works at, Honey enjoys a meteoric rise to become the premier hip hop music video choreographer (within a week or two). But alas, the sinister Music Video Director Michael Ellis (David Moscow) begins to drool over the supple and lithe Honey. When the sweet and innocent Honey rejects his advances from her high moral horse, maintaining the movie's kid-friendly rating, Ellis tries to have her black-listed in the industry. Meanwhile, the community centre where Honey volunteers at is being closed. Oh oh, the poor homeless kids will have to put on a show to raise money to keep the centre open . . .

Gee, I wonder if it will all work out in the end?


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Summary: Why is everybody slating this?
Review: I have to admit, I loved this movie. Sure, it doesn't take brains to watch it, but it's easy to watch, and enjoyable too. It's along the lines of Save The Last Dance too. I'm never going to be a dancer; I don't have the discipline or the patience, or the body for that matter, but I still love these movies. The soundtrack needs to be played blaring, without anyone else in the house, which I did today.

I hadn't previously heard of Jessica Alba, I only knew she's in a TV series called Dark Angel, and she's going to be in the Fantastic Four movie? (How do I pick this stuff up?!) She was bubbly, and great to watch though, although I preferred her hair straight, as it was on the cover. I loved the cover for this DVD, it instantly makes you want to pick it up & buy it - plus it looks Holly Valance on the cover.

I wasn't so keen on Lil' Romeo being in it, he's not that big over here in the UK, although I see he appeared in Jo-Jo's last video. Lil' Romeo grew two inches and his voice deepened before shooting completed. In the scene where Benny and Raymond go to class and Honey says that she has to go to a video shoot, Romeo had to stand with his legs far apart in order to appear shorter, because he was as tall as Jessica Alba.

OK, so quite a few people are slating this movie, but they're probably expecting it to be some kind of gritty, realistic movie, when really it's for people who love to dance - or who love to watch it. There's some quibbles about this movie: there's not a single dramatic moment, and the setbacks come right on cue - Lil' Romeo's character gets arrested for example. The characters are straight on the train from Cliches Central, from the saintly title character of Honey, to the sexually predatory rival dancer. And I'm sorry, but no music video ever has the choreographer's name on it. It's just the movie's way of showing Honey Daniels did become famous. There's a lot of R'n'B cameos in it, although I know who Missy Elliot is, I was scratching my head when it came to a lassie called Tweet, or Genuine. There's also a love story, with Mekhi Phifer as the barber, basketball playing love interest, but the story is barely shown, apart from a few scenes with lingering looks, and chaste pecks.

This is one of those films which is always going to be compared to others, such as Save The Last Dance, Dirty Dancing, Coyote Ugly or Glitter, and sure it's not original, and it's totally formulaic, but it's great fun.

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Summary: Slow-Moving But Inspiring
Review: of this very HORRIBLE movie?!


That's all I have to say.

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Summary: Reply
Review: Someone wrote that this was a bad movie, said it was boring, corny, and not real. Well it aint supposed to be real, its supposed to be enternaining,and that it is. I enjoyed this movie enough to make me watch it twice.

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Summary: The Dancing and the Music make the movie bearable to watch
Review: I like this movie and the only reason why I like it is because of the dancing and the soundtrack. Other than that, the movie was just too cheesy and unrealistic for me. Although the movie tries to portray itself as deep by taking place in the 'hood, it just doesn't work. Alba's character (Honey) is bubbly and positive, which are good character traits. But her personality just doesn't fit in at all with the grimy inner city atmosphere of New York City. The acting in the movie wasn't even that great. It was very amateurish except when it came to Lonette McKee and Mekhi Phifer. Lil' Romeo can't act to save his life and he can't dance either. Most of his dance moves looked like they were copied from one of Bow Wow's videos. I give credit to Jessica for performing her own dance moves instead of using a body double like Jennifer Beals did for 'Flashdance.' I've heard a rumor that Aaliyah was supposed to be casted as 'Honey Daniels', but I agree with the other reviewer that Mya should've been the first choice for this film.