Too much of everything

Just perfect...

I wanted to but couldn't!

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Pierre Dulaine (Antonio Banderas) is ballroom dance teacher with his own NYC studio. One night, he comes across Rock (Rob Brown) vandalizing his school principal Augustine James (Alfre Woodard)'s car. So he goes to the school to offer his services to Augustine. She finds his offer ridiculous and stuffs him in with the detention kids.For a movie based on a real person, this is a very unrealistic story. These kids are strictly PG. They are all misunderstood with hearts of gold. Not to mention the fact that these kids are selected from every race and color. It's the Fame kids doing Breakfast Club. The group is fun and Antonio Banderas has a good touch. Everybody is likable. It's all very corny, but enjoyable. Sometimes there's a need for that.

Yes, I know another teacher in the ghetto movie, but this one is really good.Antonio Banderas is fantastic as a dance instructor who want to teach things like respect and courtesy through ballroom dancing. You know, of course, how it will turn out. All of these movies end the dame, whether it is To Sir With Love or Stand and Deliver or Lean on Me. There are classes all over New York and moving across the country following the lead of Pierre Dulaine.It is the music that really makes this film - a combination of ballroom tunes and rap. The energy is continuous. The tango in the classroom was exquisite.There are a lot of interesting characters in this film, as there always is with this type of work. You will enjoy them all.

Compared to other dancing and motivating movies, this was the best. I loved it because it makes a lot of sense,its simple and their is no exaggeration about the students life situations, the acting was great, it was funny as well. The movie had a lot of dancing and at the same time self esteem motivation for the students. The teacher (antonio banderas) also explained the genre of the different types of music and dancing to the students. No gang killing, pregnancy drama, or drug dealing,no continuous tiring racism remarks; they did mentioned some past problems with all of this situations in each family which help support the movie plot and save a lot of time for the movie. Their is a little drama involved, but not the kind that you get sick off hearing and crying, mushy kinda stuff. Its a "you can do it" kind of persuasive movie, either u try until u get it or don't even bother trying. The good part is that the teacher didn't get involved in the students life out side the school setting, he didn't go knocking on their parents door begging them for permission for his students to dance or butting in the students private life, like most movies do. The teacher didn't talk much about his life, he was brief and concentrated more on the students than anything else, he wasn't pushy with them either, he let them do things their way and style with no dramatic changes, like it should be in real life. I would definitely recommend people to watch this movie.

Formula for the teacher meets misunderstood/troubled students, where the result is positive for everyone.Take a teacher (male/female). Place said teacher in an inner city or remedial class room. Add conflict, usually due to social class difference or the fact that said kids have never gotten proper encouragement or positive attention from adult figures. Teacher then breaks down said barriers with some "forward" thinking alternative teaching methodology. The kids learn. There is usually a fall-back to previous behavior (usually caused by external school situations), followed by redemption. And this is usually based on true life events, for added drama.Now is the easy part. As we learned in algebra, we just place in the actual data to replace the variables. The teacher is Zorro himself, Antonio Banderas. There are the kids (too numerous and somewhat annoying to mention). And there's the forward thinking teaching method which would be ballroom dancing. There are numerous other movies that follow a similar path - Sydney Poitier in To Sir, With Love; Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds; Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver; The Rock in Gridiron Gang; Rhea Perlman in Sunset Park; and even Samuel L. Jackson in Coach Carter. The later entries on that list follow the same formula, except it substitutes sports for class and coach for teacher.There is nothing overly original about this movie. Even though this movie is based on actual events and Pierre Dulaine (which is inspirational in itself and commendable), does not mean I necessarily want to see the same thing rehashed with different names, places and dates. The music is decent and the dancing is average. I guess one really has to be into ballroom dancing to get a fuller appreciation. There is also nothing I like better than to be grilled by Zorro in a condescending fashion. On a side note Dante Basco really needs to invest time into getting his acting skills up to par and getting a new agent. He is almost pushing 32 and playing angst-ridden teenagers might be a bit of stretch right now. The problem I have with most of these types of movies is that the ending is gratuitous. The ending is usually somewhat if not completely happy in which something is achieved, but the full realization of turning one's life around and making something of oneself is never fully shown. For example, how does LaRhette resolve her mom's prostitution and how does Rock resolve his conflict with his alcoholic dad and not to mention with the local thug he just angered ?The only true worth of the movie would have to be Zorro's tango with actress/dancer Katya Virshilas. That was kind of hot, but I think that was mostly due to her intrinsic abilities. I would have given this movie a higher rating if it actually induced sleep, because at the time I couldn't. Instead skip this one and just watch the trailer. It includes the best scene of the movie.