Love N' Dancing Reviews
Paste Magazine
The bottom line is that a few pretty dances aren't enough substance to make for a fulfilling, or even moderately entertaining movie when the rest of the material is so weak.
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| Original Score: 23/100
Top CriticI'd say Love 'n Dancing felt like an after-school special about overcoming disabilities and being the best you can be, but I fear I'd be doing a disservice to after school specials.
From the acting, to the music, to most importantly, the dancing everything feels amateur in this film.
It is unfortunate when someone with a history of staging musical numbers and directing musical sequences can't make dialogue scenes flow.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Seems more like a dance studio's infomercial than a romantic comedy.
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
If you cut the extraneous parts of Love n' Dancing -- you know, all the ones except for the dancing scenes -- it might not be a half-bad movie.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
L.A. Weekly
Everyone moves beautifully, yet director Robert Iscove keeps such a coolly professional distance from the dancers that we never feel their heat.
The film starts out as an empowerment story, gravitates toward romantic drama, has bits of lame comedy, and, of course, there's the dancing. Something for everyone, presumably, just none of it very good.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Bland as its title, Love N' Dancing extends the cliches of the dance-and-romance genre -- so overplayed that it's targeted for a Wayans brothers spoof later this month -- to the world of West Coast Swing.
Metromix.com
How did it wind up in theaters? Even as a limited release? That's a mystery far more intriguing than anything on screen.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Urban Cinefile
Instantly likeable, especially if you like dancing and this originally jazz-derivative but now pop/rock driven style
