An average movie

After her breakthrough with ‘Dark Angel’ (which I have actually never seen), Jessica Alba became the new ‘hit girl’ and quickly moved towards full length features. Instead of taking any risks, she decided to make a dance movie which must have satisfied her fan base at the time but I thought that it was actually rather underwhelming. I mean, to be honest, it was rather well made, Jessica Alba looked terribly charming but the whole thing had a rather pedestrian plot with the usual stereotypes. I mean, the rocky romantic relationship, the evil producers, the big show at the end,… It went just by numbers but I guess that the target audience didn’t mind much (I think I saw it at the time with my step-daughter who was just 12 years old and she probably thought it was pretty neat). On the positive side, the ending was pretty cool, with a catchy tune and some nice dancing but, beside this, the whole thing was just terribly forgettable. A few laters, Jessica Alba would show up in ‘Sin City’ (probably the only good thing she has done so far and she seems to like working with Robert Rodriguez since they made no less than 5 movies together) and her career was really launched. To conclude, I didn’t care much about the whole thing and I don’t think it is really worth a look, expect maybe if you really love the genre.

5/10