Dance movies!! :)

I LOVE that feeling after you watch a dance movie, when you are so inspired and just wanna get up and dance! I think dvds that have bonus features where you can learn a dance routine are really good. I've always had an interest in dance, from a young age, i just love the freedom and self expression you can achieve through movement!

I just watched step up 3 there, and i really liked it, i'd seen it in the cinema when it was in 3D and i thought that was really cool, sometimes 3D movies work, and others not so much, but i think they choreographed really interesting dance routines that worked well in 3D! My favorite of the step ups will always be the second one, I liked the story line and i love street dance so this movie was definitely more my style. :)

My two favorite dance movie's of all time are "Save the Last Dance"(2001), which stars Julia Styles as Sara and "Dirty Dancing" (1987) which star Jennifer Grey as Baby and Patrick Swayze as Johnny. This movie is an iconic classic, everyone has heard of it, and i believe it was one of the first movies to really stretch the boundaries of dance in a film and all the dance movies that have followed have taken inspiration from this movie. This movie along with Flashdance and Footloose paved the way for future silver screen combinations of love on the dance floor, in other words without these movies there wouldn't be save the last dance or any of the step up movies!

It's both the choreography, and soundtrack to Dirty Dancing along with the incredibly talented cast that makes this movie sensational, and i must say they are pretty convincing actors because in real life they hated each other, its pretty tough to not only pretend to like someone, but to convince millions of people that you are in love so I think they did a great job. This movie is one of my timeless favorites, it's also a musical, which i'm hoping i'll get the chance to see next year.

Save the last dance is an incredible movie that mixes different cultures and styles of dance effectively. As i mentioned before i love street dance, but i also think ballet is incredible, i was never really great at it as a kid though, i was much more into free movement. I think what makes this movie so strong is its story line, right from the beginning it evokes a lot of different emotions in the audience. It shows how dance has the power to change things, dance can overcome social and racial boundaries, and can break down prejudice. As they say in step up 3 "dance isn't just jumping around, it has a vocabulary, its a universal language that brings all kinds of people together" i think that is a perfect description of what dance is. Everyone is equipped with their own beat to follow, and thats your heartbeat, so whether your a great dancer or you consider yourself a bad dancer, the truth of the matter is we're all born dancers, and i think thats why dance movies and programs such as so you think you can dance, americas best dance crew, dancing with the stars and so on are so popular.

Other movies such as center stage, rent, chicago, how she move, dance with me, take the lead, fame, stomp the yard, hairspray, make it happen honey, you got served, and street dance are also great dance movies and if you haven't seen some of these i suggest you check them out! :)

So what are your guys favorite dance movies?
Do you think the remakes such as hairspray and fame did the originals justice?
Let me know xx

disney movie remakes number 1- Sydney White

So i've noticed recently that a lot of old disney classics and fairly tales are being remade, the most recent disney movie being "Beastly" and the fairytale being "Red Riding hood"
Beastly is based on the academy award winning movie "Beauty and the Beast" It stars Vanessa hudgens and Alex Petyffer who i recently did a review on for his role in the movie "i am number 4"I haven't seen this movie yet, so i can't give an accurate or non bias review on it, but an observation i made from reading about it is that i'm not sure vanessa Hudgens was the best fit for the role, but i know i'll have to wait and see before i write her off.
Beauty and the Beast was one of my favorite movies growing up, and i really hope Beastly will do it justice.
So the first movie i am going to review is "Sydney White" which as i'm sure u've guessed it, is a modern day adaptation of Snow White. I know it was released in 2007, but i only recently saw it and i must say i was impressed, i liked how they turned this disney classic into a modern day version thats very relatable and funny. The movie stars Amanda Bynes as "Sydney White" and although she plays pretty much the same role in all of her movies, i still find her enjoyable to watch, she managed to carve a respectable career starring in movies that, with any other female lead would feel just as stale as the hundreds of others before it, but Bynes' charm and humor manages to give these movies a new lease of life, just like in "She's the Man" which is a modern adaptation of shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" where she surprised critics everywhere by doing a really good job, better than anyone could have predicted. Sydneys character is a tomboy, who was raised by her dad and his fellow construction workers after her mom died when she was 9. She lived a very sheltered life and spent most of her days helping her dad out on the construction site, that is until she gets accepted to SAU, the college her mother wen't to and not only did she go to this college but she was part of the college's most elite sorority Kappa Phi  Nu, so in an attempt to feel connected to her mother she decides she's going to do whatever it takes to become a Kappa. Her dorm roommate when she gets to college is none other than Dinky (Crystal Hunt) who's also a Kappa legacy because her mom too was a Kappa.
Things aren't happily ever after for Sydney though because of the big bad witch on campus Rachel Witchburn (Sarah Paxton) who is out to get her, because first of all she doesn't think Sydney fits the Kappa stereotype and more importantly because her prince charming ex Tyler (Matt Long) showed an interest in her and Rachel would not stand for that so spends the movie plotting to destroy her, the first thing she did was had sydney kicked out of the sorority leaving her nowhere to go except the Vortex, which is an old run down house for people who didn't quite fit in, in any of the other fraternities and sororities. This is where she befriends the 7 dorks, each of them represented the different dwarfs very well, you could tell straight away who was who, we are first introduced to Lenny (Jack Carpenter) who represents sneezy, Sydney bumps into him during a pledging challenge.
She moves into the Vortex and decides that enough is enough, these great guys are being forced to live in a house thats falling apart just because they don't fit the required stereotype to live elsewhere, so she persuades the dorks to run for president, Terrance (Jeremy Howard) being the oldest and smartest steps up to the challenge and all is going well until tragedy strikes and sydney white has to save the day.
I thought there were some very good references in the movie like the hot list website on Rachels laptop was a modern version of the magic mirror, the poison apple was infact an apple laptop and it gets poisoned by a virus, the movie was cleverly written and it was funny and enjoyable to watch. This movie also has a positive message, being that you don't have to be blonde and cookie cutter perfect to be beautiful, and that the Rachel Whichburns of the world don't have a right to make you feel down about yourself.

Overall its' a good teen movie that you can watch again and again.
i give it an 8.5 out of 10 xx

I am Number 4 movie review

Hey guys, right so i'm sure you've all heard about the new alien movie whereby these special extraterrestrials from the planet Lorien are the only remainder of their kind and are being hunted by............ no? right thought as much, so  let me rephrase my sentence... you've all heard about the new movie that hottie mc hotster  Alex Pettyfer is in yea?? haha.... better?

Okay so i remember when stormbreakers came out, and i saw this cute blonde dude in it...and i thought to myself.. he's going to be hot when he's older... and BAM... few years later he was in Wild Child and i think thats when he stole the hearts of teens and adults everywhere, and theres no sign of him slowing down any time soon. He stars in the movie I am number 4 along side glee's Dianna Agron who he recently just spilt from, they were sharing a house and everything?... little crazy seein as they knew each other a whole of what... a week?? ... right maybe a few weeks.. but still.. its nuts, although if i was Dianna i'd have been more than happy to shack up with him... even it had just been a day... hmm.... right back to the review, so basically the movie is exactly what it says in the tin, he's one of 9 extraterrestrials that are living on earth and are being hunted down by the Mogadorians, which are basically a group of weird freaky looking guys who's goal in life is to destroy these 9 extraterrestrials one by one. and at the start of the movie you see number 3 being killed, so then John Smith (alex) who shockingly enough is number 4 and his guardian henri are constantly on the run, barely staying one step ahead of the Mogaadorians.
They flee to Ohio to a small town called Paradise, where John falls for the sweet Sarah (Dianna) who's a budding photographer and befriends the schools nerd Sam (Callan McAuliffe) which does nothing to help him stay inconspicuous, it instead has the opposite effect and attracts the attention of the schools alpha males, and the leader of the pack Mark James (Jake Abel) who just so happens to be Sarahs ex so he gets all kinds of jealous when Sarah and John start hanging out.
The movie didn't have much substance, Sarahs character lacks charisma and depth, and Alex Pettyfer emotes precious little emotion throughout the movie, though he was indeed easy on the eyes, i don't believe he did the character justice, although he didn't do a terrible job.
In the end the Mogadorians catch up with Number 4, and thats when the movie goes from a normal teen movie to a sci-fi movie... or an attempt at a sci-fi movie, it was more like a cheap video game.
Number 6 makes herself known towards the end of the movie, and i think she was a good character and should have been incorporated into the movie more, she's a fiesty bad ass who helps John in the battle against the Mogadorians, then these, what i can only describe as weird beasts came on screen, it was like watching jurassic park or something, i feel like the director tried to incorporate too many different aspects into the movie instead of focusing on the actual story line and the characters.

The movie itself was confusing, there were a lot of gaps in logic throughout the movie and there were also a lot of eye rolling moments, but overall John Smith (Alex Pettyfer) made the movie watchable, and the nerd Sam was entertaining to watch, he was a good fit for the role.
If you're looking for a good sci-fi action movie then i don't recommend this, although if you want to see a bit of a brainless movie with an unbelievably hot male character, then this is the movie for you, theres also a scene where he's shirtless... so watch out for that. :P

I give the movie a 6 out of 10 and had Alex Pettyfer not been in this movie, it would have gotton a 3.
xx