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Summary: The Best Film Ever!!!
Review: When I saw this movie, I had to watch it again just to make sure that it was that good! The storyline is fantastic and is a movie for everyone. Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas are the best actors, so together you can only imagine how good they have to be. I would give the movie +5 stars but I can't do that. This movie was so good, I went out and bought it right away and both of the Cd's! It even made me want to learn hip hop dancing. If you miss this movie, you'll be sorry when everyone's talking about it. This is a must see! I just loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: GREATEST MOVIE EVER
Review: I have seen the movie save the last dance and I personally think that it is the best movie in the world and I really want to get it. Save the last dance is my very favorite movie in the entire world. I think that this mowie deserves 5 stars instead of 4.7. That is the reason that I am writting this review. Because this is a good movie...
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Summary: Creative
Review: I love the way that they put hip-hop into ballet. That was very creative. Patrick Sean Thomas and Juila Stiles do such a good job acting in that movie. It's definatley one of my favorite movies.
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Summary: Dancing N the Hood
Review: Let's see - White girl moves to the ghetto and finds salvation in hip-hop. Indeed, here in this jarring, urban world of drive-bys and people who say "aaaight!" cute White girl meets a Black hip-hop intellectual who wants to be a doctor and can quote Truman Capote! Smells like MTV to me. If you think that a loving mother with a nice house in the suburbs and a current model-year Jeep wouldn't have provided for her teenage daughter in her will, then you have the mentality for Save the Last Dance. Screenwriters Duane Adler and Cheryl Edwards and director Thomas Carter not only enjoy throwing a contrived interracial romance in our face, they also enjoy inner city reality: Chenille is an unwed teenage mother. Aspiring med-student Derek's best friend, Malakai, is a murderous gangbanger. Like Sara, Chenille and Derek are motherless, but their mother isn't dead, she's a dope whore, or, as Chenille so delicately puts it, their mother went to jail, "for doing what women do for money when they need drugs." HA! Derek admits to Sara that he once broke into a liquor store with Malakai - I guess this is before he wanted to be a pediatrician. When Derek tells Sara he hopes to become a pediatrician, because he likes kids, she asks if he's fathered any yet. HA! So the one fuctional Black guy goes for the one cute White girl who happens to show up. Could it be because White is the standard of beauty? And don't feed me the pathetic "you love who you love" thesis. Save the Last Dance was co-produced by MTV Films, a company that, according to senior vice president David M. Gale, searches for films that "speak to audiences about subjects that resonate with the MTV demographic." That speaks volumes about this film.
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Summary: Better than Dirty Dancing
Review: This movie is wonderful on many levels. Aside from an upbeat, fun atmosphere, the dancing is wonderful, and the plot deals with many of today's important issues-- from teen parenthood to interracial dating. For those not "into" the serious issues, it is possible to take the film for its' face value, as a simple love story with a modern element. For those who have experienced first hand the hardships that come with dating someone outside of their race (as I have) this film strikes dangerously close to home. It does not shy away from the complexity of the issue, which I liked very much.
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Summary: Good
Review: I just saw the movie "Save The Last Dance" twice in two days and I really liked it.The theme or story may not be new, but the performances of the actors, especially Sean Patrick who was really awesome and believable made it really good and strong.Julia Stiles has had my attention since "Ten Things".I think she is very talented, a born actress and the reason I bought the "Ten Things" movie.There were some blank spaces about the movie "Save The Last Dance" that needed to be filled though.For example there was no mention of anything about Derek's father, unless I missed it.And by the way who was Mama Dean(sic) the old lady who watched little Christopher?I would think Sara and Derek fell in love too fast and she got jealous too fast.I would also think that Sara should have been more specific with information on the phone with her former best friend even though I could understand her lack of excitement could be due to having to deal with a new environment and her sadness at her mother's death. However, this is still a great movie and leaves me with the thought about the future of America's youth leading an older generation past it's racist past to struggle and deal with living together in the future.If it takes for the genre of hip-hop as one of the routes to lead to this,then so be it!I think everyone should see this movie since it also touches on other themes like never give up on your dreams(Sara) and rising above obstacles and stereotyping to get there(Derek).My hats off to young Sean Patrick; I think he could be the next Sidney Poitier.
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Summary: The best movie I have ever seen in my young life
Review: I remember back in November 2000, and I was reading my teen people magazine, and under up coming movies, it said, Save the last dance. I knew I would love it. But soon I forgot about it, but as Christmas came, I heard about it again, and ever since then I have wanted to see it. Finally when January 12, 2001, I saw it! And I was amazed! The movie has power and greatness. I have never seen a movie that good in a long time. Julia Stiles was so good! I mean, she was great in 10 Things I Hate About You, but she is way, way, way, better in Save the last Dance! That movie wasn't a teen flick like others, it was a romeo and juliet story gone hip hop. What I liked a lot about it, was how true it was. Like how Rasium happens in life today, and how they tried to keep their relationship even though the world wasn't letting them. Not like other movies, where they met, fall in love, break up, happy ending. No, this movie has such a great script and romance story, that you can cry and see it 100 times, and still cry. I love Save the last dance, and whoever loves action, romance, hip hop, drama, love, and ect. should go rent it today!Just ask anyone who knows me, "So does she like Save the last dance?" And I can tell you exactly what anyone would say, "No. She loves it."
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Summary: Well Done
Review: The only criticism that I might have about this film is that insufficient attention was paid to certain issues really deserving of more dialogue and screen time. But the film certainly touched on all of the key issues.Thomas Carter's (Haywood from the White Shadow) direction was flawless. The films pacing was smooth while it certainly boiled with intensity in the spots where it was needed. The only other thing I personally would have liked would for there to have been some integration with some of Ms. Stile's father's jazz tunes. To integrate that with the ballet and hip hop would have sent an even more powerful message than just the ballet hip hop combo. Ms Stiles is a talented actress but I can't say as much for her dancing talents. Though she is certainly to be commended to even be credible as both a ballet dancer and flo..in' wit some hip hop. But her ballet was somewhat stilted and her hip hop although technically correct she lacked the flavor that really is hip hop. (She had the steps down but didnt' have the flow) Great dancers don't look like they're trying to dance. Ms. Stiles always looked like she was reading some diagrams out of a book while she was dancing. A great film for teens.
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Summary: A wonderful movie to say the least!!
Review: I thought this movie was well presented and hit on some major delimas when an interracial couple come together. I also liked the fact that the lead actress Julia Stiles did not want a double and worked extra hard to learn and perform all the dances herself. This is a wonderful dance love story that can be watched over and over easily.
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Summary: the best movie out there that us teenagers can relate to
Review: This is probably the best movie i've ever seen.When i saw the movie I imediatly could relate to it.M y boy friend is black to and most pepeol have a problem with that.For example Nikki wuz jelous because Derek wuz with Sara and in my case my boyfriends ex girl friend is jelous that he's with me and we got in to a fight about it in gym class.This movie made me cry when i saw it.I saw this movie about 2 ta 6 times.I'm going to buy the movie so i don't have to return it and so i can watch it over and over again.I can relate to Julia stilles{Sara}all the way throw the movie and i just don't understand why black pepeol shouldn't date white pepoel or spanish pepeol and white can't dat blacks and hispanics can't date black.I just think that thats so stupid.You can't control who you love your not suopose to.And it seems like at first me and my boy friend spent more time defending our relatsionship that actually having one.I hope that theres a part 2 to save the last dance.I thank the makers of the movie for making it because us teenagers can relate to the movie in so many ways weather were a boy or a girl.I know a lot of teenagers that can relate to the movie.well gotta go see ya.And on the next award show vote for Save The Last Dance!!!!!!!!!!!One more thing how many of yall think that Sean Patirk Thomas is fineeee????????
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