Burn the Floor
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Movie Reviews of Burn the Floor
Movie Review: Blame Michael Flatley...
Summary: 2 Stars
... for giving every dance studio and popular dance genre the hope that they too can be the "next Riverdance". The dancers are all talented, if self-consciously hip, and in great shape. But the numbers that focus more on T & A than fancy footowrk really did this show in for me. I love it when risks are taken with conventional dance forms, but ballroom dance is OTT enough ( if you've ever watched a competition) and doesn't need to be tarted up beyond recognition, the way it is here. Add the disjointed lighting and editing effects and what you have is a hot mess.Movie Review: hard to follow
Summary: 2 Stars
This film is full of dance that is next to impossible to really watch. The camera view jumps and changes every .5 to 1.5 seconds and so you really can't observe the dancer(s) and their movement without feeling like you are under one of those department store lighting systems.Movie Review: Huge Disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
Having read the reviews on Amazon and other sites, I thought I'd give this DVD a shot. The premise of updating ballroom dance is an exciting one, and "Burn the Floor" had a lot of potential. The "making of" feature was informative and entertaining, and I enjoyed (for the most part) the interviews with the dancers. I appreciated the reminder of just how much time and training goes into a performance that only looks effortless. The different themes presented an interesting evolution from classic ballroom to modern dance fusion.
However, the costumes crossed the line from sexy to slutty (pretty shocking, considering one of the couples are brother and sister and had better be best buddies to dance with the risk of wardrobe malfunctions). The camera cuts were too fast to focus on the dancing, and frankly caused a headache. I would have liked to have seen full shots of the dancers rather than head and torso shots that cut off the feet. It seemed that when the editors needed footage, they chose ..."Let's see... feet? No! Crotch shot, or maybe buttocks! Forget about a shot of the dancers' legs... What do think this is, a DANCE show?!!!"
I've nothing against exciting, sensual dance, but let's see the performance, not an epileptically edited T&A flick.
Movie Review: What a disappointment!
Summary: 1 Stars
I looked forward to seeing this DVD based on reviews I read in Amazon.com. The costuming, sets, lighting and dancing are quite fine and the choreography is....spectacularly unimaginative...I kept waiting to see SOMETHING that was remotely compelling and creative and the "techno" dance sequence came closest to providing that. Everything else, however, seemed to be a process of finding a movement and repeating it ad naseaum. Watch Bob Fosse's choreography for "Sing, Sing, Sing" sometime and compare.Movie Review: Nothing like what I expected
Summary: 1 Stars
Given that the dancers are supposed to be real ballroom competitors, I was expecting spectacular dancing. What I saw was repetitious choreography with a few latin moves thrown in. It was worse than one would expect to see in a beginners dance class. If you want to see some real ballroom dancing, buy something else - anything else. Some of the best movies are:
Strictly Ballroom
Shall We Dance? (Japanese)
Dirty Dancing