Directed by: Bradley Walsh
Starring: Romina D’Ugo, David Giuntoli, Adam T. Brooks
You know what’s a weird recent trend? The burgeoning genre of “dance movies”. Films which are just about people dancing or learning to dance or winning dance competitions or being in a drum corps or cheerleading or something. You know what’s not weird? They’re all terrible.
Turn the Beat Around is about a girl who wants to be a backup dancer for music videos. That’s her actual motivation. She meets a club owner and tells him her brilliant idea for a new club: What if it was exactly like a normal dance club, but the music was all techno remixes of disco songs?! AMAZING! The club owner obviously sees the merit in her totally original and unique and brilliant idea and builds a new club, then hires her to teach a ragtag group of dancers an opening routine for the club. There’s drama, people sleep with each other, and the whole thing culminates in what is, essentially, a really terrible dance number. Like, even judging it against other dance numbers.
It’s funny and a bit ironic that the final dance number in the movie is just SO bad, but it’s even funnier that they spend the entire movie dealing with this and it makes NO SENSE. Why in the world would there be professional dancers in a dance club? I’m no club-hopper or anything (obviously, I’m writing movie reviews on the internet), but doesn’t that defeat the entire fucking purpose of a dance club? I dunno, just saying.
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