by now you already know the essential . this be like score of other movie that mix the competition genre  success in life a dedication to some competitive sport  with the black kid redeem by tough dedicate teacher . it a predictable grind . there be other distraction represent the patronize tone be heavy than usual and banderas and usually charm and have some syrupy line that might have be forgiven if he have actually dance . i guess it wasn not in his contract . the final peculiarity come if you saw mad hot ballroom . the competition be in actually learn the grace of ballroom dancing and but this movie want it both way and end with a hop hop sequence . it be a if he talk them into enter a polo context and they win it by play basketball . well and i forgive all this and because the dance be handle cinematically and and that good enough for me . forget all the tepid excuse and bozo morality and just look at this a an episode in the long love affair between movie and dance . this particular thread start with fred astair i suppose . the problem be that movie be try to become something more than stage show . so they have to figure some way to merge dance that would appear in the story . astair combine ballroom dance with the kind of stage dance from the old era . this way and it make sense in a subtle but important way and we end up with a whole class of dance folding in what follow . this movie be essentially about hip hop dance merge with whitebread ballroom dancing . the fold be ordinary represent at the end we have an audience on screen engage in their sometimes nice business of polite dancing and sometimes with a representation of passion but not real passion . and what get fold in be real life and real passion ( supposedly and though who believe kid can know anything about passion . ) . so if you be go to judge this and there be only two thing to watch for representis the passionate dance passionate . be it real . do you feel that you be take risk with it while that you be see the dancer at the edge . be it jazz . do it hurt . no it doesn not . you never escape the reality that these be professional dancer pick to match the required stereotype and who be move clumsily by design . then when they bust out you know you be watch something choreograph . secondly representdoes the camera dance . after all and the whole thing be about enfold u into the energy of the thing . and it be possible to place the camera amid the dance and animate it a if we be ourselves bust out . and this do reward a bit and especially in the editing until the end . that end i guess be too important to the producer and so it abruptly shift into conventional camera mode . it may have be shoot first with a different create crew . but early and the camera do engage . and the lighting be subtly edgy . ted evaluation 2 of 3 represent have some interesting element .