Under the clunky direction of Peter Chelsom, while forced to mouth inane dialogue by Audrey Wells ... a swell bunch of troupers get mangled in a monsoon of clichés.
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10/21/04
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Shall We Dance? (2004)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:15
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: The cast is warmly appealing, but with the loss of cultural context and addition of big-name celebrities, this American version loses the nuances of the original.
Theatrical Release:Oct 15, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $57,825,111
Synopsis: A workaholic lawyer’s life and marriage take an unexpected twirl when he follows a beautiful woman to a Chicago dance studio and becomes a clandestine ballroom dance competitor in SHALL WE DANCE.... [More]
Starring: Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci
Director: Peter Chelsom
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Reviews for Shall We Dance?
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10/19/04
Top CriticOccasionally charming but ultimately forgettable bit of fox-trot fluff.
10/15/04
Top CriticTakes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid American movie. Still, it must be said that as glossy and overproduced as the thing is, it's a good Big Stupid American movie.
10/15/04
Top CriticTurns a sweet, lilting story into a clunky, clichéd and tedious movie sitcom.
10/15/04
Top CriticThe original remains the standard, and it's a far deeper work, but this paint-by-numbers project manages to get by on its good humour and undeniably entertaining ensemble cast.
10/15/04
Top CriticWhere the original soared, the new version hugs the ground. It's like the difference between Fred Astaire's dancing and Richard Gere's.
10/15/04
Top CriticMiscast, misguided and woefully misbegotten, this clumsy American remake of the deftly delicate 1996 sleeper hit from Japan is too blah to bludgeon.
10/15/04
Top CriticA pleasant, uncomplicated, adult night out -- an event nearly as rare as a new romantic Hollywood musical.
10/15/04
Top CriticThere isn't even any exciting dancing here, and what hoofing there is has been heavily edited, usually with the dancers' feet cropped off.
10/15/04
Top CriticA comedy with two left feet.
10/15/04
Top CriticA sleek Hollywood crowd-pleaser, more movie than art film, but its makers have wisely stuck not only to the spirit but often even to the letter of the original.
10/15/04
Top CriticA funny, well-acted adult tale about the difficulty of holding onto happiness.
10/15/04
Top CriticSayonara sushi, hello turkey.
10/15/04
Top CriticInvigorating, hopeful, funny and perfectly consciously corny at times.
10/15/04
Top CriticAsks us to return to the days of yesteryear, when we would accept Cary Grant as a country bumpkin and Marilyn Monroe as an ugly duckling. These days, that's asking too much.
10/15/04
Top CriticWaltzes us into a world where interesting emotional realities give way to stock responses.
10/15/04
Top CriticFeels engineered the way women's magazines too often do: to deliver the feel-good without burdening us with too much feeling or thought.
10/15/04
Top CriticIts missteps turn the delicate footwork of the original into a clunky thud.
10/15/04
Top CriticConventional as it may be, Shall We Dance? offers genuine delights.
10/15/04
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March 11, 2005:
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