Move over Raise Your Voice. I think I’ve found an even more clichéd movie – It’s pretty much Raise Your Voice 2 since it’s also based at a school of arts. So, if you love clichéd teen movies (you know who you are), you have to watch Step Up. During my long, delayed flight to London, I decided to watch it, since I figured if I fell asleep at any time in the movie, when I woke up, I would still know what was going on, and what was going to happen. Boy, was I not disappointed.
There are so many clichés in the movie, I don’t even know where to begin. Well, the two protagonists are from two totally different worlds: The guy comes from the wrong side of the tracks (which, as we see in the movie, is the result of coming from a broken home with the standard alcoholic/negligent foster dad) who at first hates the rich girl. Little does he know how much they have in common.
Despite the rich girl seemingly having everything – she attends the prestigious arts school, has good ethnically-diverse friends, and also the prick of a boyfriend – her mother doesn’t believe in her dream of becoming a dancer, but we find out in the end that she does in fact, truly care, but is just being overprotective and only wants the best for her daughter.
A million clichés later, including the guy finding something he truly believes in, a comic-relief sidekick, tragedy, and everything going smoothly until exactly two-thirds of the way through the movie when it all appears to fall apart. What's going to happen in the end? Will she be offered her dream job of being in a theatre company? Will he, guy-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks, learn the error of his ways, and find the one way to escape his movie-rate thug life? Who knows? It's not like it's an overclichéd teen-dancing movie!
...Oh wait...
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Hi Narin! It's Tanya. I didn't know you have a blog here. I knew you had one in msn space (so is mine). I totally agree with you about myspace. I had one there but it was too bloody hard to use and customize so I decided to stick to msn space. But like you said, more and more people still get on myspace instead.
Anyway, which part of the world are you now?? One minute you seem to be in Japan, the next you are in England!
Merry Christmas to you and your family. I'm still here in Melbourne trying to gulp my turkey down -____-!!
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