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Summary: that's YOUR dream, Mom! Not mine!
Review: Oh, this is awful. Basically, a ballerina from a small town gets the chance to study for a year at the American Ballet Academy in NYC, where she meets a bunch of trite friends (great dancer with too much attitude, girl with eating disorder and mommy issues, yadda yadda yadda). She also likes the forbidden fruit -- a dance choreographer! and maybe she's not as good a ballerina as she thought she was now that she is in the big-time.Yawn. Who cares? I watched this from a hospital bed when I had seen everything else in the video box. And I still regret it. Even when the girl (whose character's name I can't even remember) was supposedly dancing so great (to a 1987 Michael Jackson song) I still thought she was boring and terrible.
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Summary: kaylas review
Review: i'ts about a group of wemon and me trying to earna spot in the best Art performence school ever so they seperate into two diffrent goups and try to put on the best play /ballet anyone has ever seen.
On opening night the judges will be waching and chose a small amount of peopel. so , both groups perform and a 1/2 after show they call 1 person at a time back and the last girl they pick jody decieds to go to a diffrent company and becomes a teacher ,then the group of peopel thet pratice togather and stuff they became friends and they were sad when they had to leave eachother.
my oppion on the movie is well it is a 4 star.
It has really good dancing and The preformance at the end was great. The plot of the movie was really romantic and,best part of movie ws most of the dancers in the movie were real dancers such as Ethan Stiefelwho played {Cooper}and Amanda Schull who played (Jody).my advise is if you havent seen it go see it. bmaby they will make part 2,well find out.
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Summary: AMAZING!
Review: this movie glows in the fact that it is very sophisticated,sexy,sentimental,and sharp! center stage deserves 5 stars!
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: I loved this movie. It has amazing dancing. The preformance at the end was amazing. The plot was romantic. THe best part was that most of the dancers in the movie were real dancer such as Ethan Stiefel(Cooper) and Amanda Schull(Jody).I love this movie and think they should make a sequel.
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Summary: Lots of fun
Review: Ballet was my first passion, and, consequently, I find it fascinating, and I know the work involved with it. This movie does a very good job of showing the struggle that a ballet student goes through -- the rigor of study and exercise, the attitude of both students and teachers in a professional studio or school...even the stereotypes. A lot of previous reviewers have complained about all the stereotypes in the movie, but the fact of the matter is, those stereotypes EXIST. In mass quantities, I might add! MOST dancers fall into one of those categories; if they had not been in there, quite frankly, it wouldn't have been very true to reality. So I was glad they put them in. I do agree that some of the acting isn't exactly earth-shattering. On the other hand, this is a movie about DANCE, and I would rather see them employ DANCERS than actors. There is nothing more annoying than watching an actor who can't dance try and pull it off, it just doesn't work. So I was glad they went with that particular choice. The actors they had that didn't dance didn't actually HAVE to. For example, Peter Gallagher. Peter Gallagher wouldn't have been my first choice to cast as the director of a major company, but when he first came onto the screen, I laughed out loud! He played the role PERFECTLY! I watched him and thought, "Oh, my gosh, it's all the directors and teachers that I had when I was a ballet dancer!" He couldn't have done it any better if he actually WAS a ballet director. The story, though predictable, was still sweet, and the characters ended up being pretty likable. But, of course, the dancing is why you watch this movie. The dancing is wonderful. The only thing that bothered me AT ALL was the fact that some of the final dance number is blatantly IMPOSSIBLE to do onstage, but oh well, it was incredibly fun to watch anyway! I love classical ballet, but when you can successfully mix the classical and the funk, that's fabulous too! All in all, a very good movie, one of the best dance movies out there! If you want to see a good dance show, if you want to be entertained on more than one level, this is a movie I would recommend!
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Summary: Great dancing
Review: I liked this movie a lot. However, the storyline is pretty unorginal and there's nothing new that you won't have seen in any other dance movie. Still, the dancing is excellent in this movie, you can't deny that the actors are awesome dancers. I really enjoyed their performances. I was relieved to see that they casted actual dancers for this movie, as opposed to actors who go through crash-course dance training to put on mediocre performances (i.e., Save the Last Dance). The dancing makes up for the not-so-creative storyline.
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Summary: A good fun movie for the average Joe
Review: I know nothing of dancing and am not really that big on dancing movies. I found fame to be a bit of a bore to be honest. However my girlfriend introduced me to this movie, being a dancer herself. I found that it was a good movie that kept me interest. There is nothing spectacular, but if you are looking to be entertained by something that does not require much thinking and just watch this is a good movie.
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Summary: Great Movie :) Cruddy DVD :(
Review: My best friend bought me a VHS copy of Center Stage a few years ago, and since then I have worn it out watching it on rainy saturdays and at 'chick' parties. Tonight I purchased the DVD, specifically for the deleted scenes the 'making of' featurette and the directors commentary. I WAS SOOOOOOO DISAPPOINTED! The commentary consisted mostly of "...errr...umm...err...yes...good dancers...errr...yes....see that...um...." And there were only two deleted scenes, when I know there has to be more. And the featurette was pure crap. I was expecting (that's what I get for expecting!) interviews and footage of rehearsals, etc. What you get is an extended version of the trailer. So, if you're thinking of upgrading to the DVD simply for the special features, don't bother. The only special feature on this DVD is the movie itself.
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Summary: Fun, not award-winning
Review: This movie is simply a cheesey chick-flic that is ultimately heartwarming. The dancing is great, as expected since most of the main characters are actual professional ballet dancers. It's nice that this movie is more than just classical ballet; it has modern ballet and jazz, too. The acting is good for the most part, although Ethan Stiefel as Cooper Nielson is overly dramatic at times. By the end of the movie, you want Charlie to get his girl, you want all the dancers to be chosen for the professional ballet and you're ecstatic that everyone's dreams come true. You'll get sucked into this movie and want to watch it again and again.
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Summary: good dancing makes up for terrible script
Review: Centre Stage is a really fun movie and has fantastic dancing. I say this as a dancer. (Most of the choreography sucks, but that's another soapbox.)
That's the real reason to watch this film, becaue if you pay attnetion to the wooden acting, the stupid script and the cliches strewn haphazardly through the film, you'll be disappointed. It really does show the sick mindset of the dance world though, about how dancers are expected to be thin whether that is their normal body type or not. One of the main supporting characters is bulimic and through the course of the movie stops dancing and confronts her mother their dysfunctional relationship. There is nothing fundamentally wrong here, except that the whole thing is presented very simplistically. In the real world, these events would never happen. When you have an eating disorder you are so emotionally dysfunctional that usually, confronting the people at the root of your pain is the last thing you are capable of doing. It was hard to believe that this girl was seriously ill when all of a sudden she found the self-respect to start standing up to people and vocalising her needs. That just doesn't happen overnight.
On the otherhand, I suppose that someone with an eating disorder who saw this movie might concievably be encouraged to take steps towards recovery. I guess it's possible that you might see what the character did and be given some hope that you could take that direction too.
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