A doubly tired remake: first of the infinitely better 1997 film from Japan, and second of virtually any cliche you can imagine from situation comedies.
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10/14/04
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Shall We Dance? (2004)
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Reviews Counted:145
Fresh:69
Rotten:76
Average Rating:5.5/10
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?
So supple is this story about the man with two lead feet who walks into a dance class and then waltzes out of his midlife funk, that it pretty much survives the transplant from its Tokyo Zen garden to a Windy City rose arbor.
10/14/04
Top CriticThis version of Shall We Dance? tosses circumspection out of the window, milking every ounce of sentimentality, pathos and thrift-shop idiosyncrasy from the story line.
10/14/04
Top CriticThe filmmakers aren't afraid to lay on the schmaltz, especially at the end, but it never gets so heavy that Shall We Dance? doesn't step lively.
10/14/04
An unwieldy mess that gives every impression of having been made under a mandate to fill the Miramax crowd-pleaser slot.
10/14/04
Good-natured fluff.
10/14/04
The movie tries hard to duplicate the original's mood and story, but, like Gere or Lopez, is too much of a visual knockout to rope us in.
10/14/04
Top CriticThe original is about the restorative power of dance. The remake is about working a rap number into the movie so kids will buy the soundtrack.
10/14/04
Shall We Dance isn't half the movie its predecessor is, but it succeeds on its own terms.
10/14/04
Top CriticYou're better off being a wallflower.
10/14/04
Stanley Tucci is the reason to see Shall We Dance?
10/14/04
'The Rumba is a vertical expression of a horizontal wish,' says J. Lo. Then again, so is sleepwalking.
10/14/04
The new Dance is a lukewarm Hollywood T-ball game, where the only goal is to please every potential audience member out there in the great unknown.
10/14/04
this is a thoroughly likable flick, one that will have even the most rhythmically challenged schlub leaving the theater with a bounce in his step and twinkle in his eye.
10/14/04
Too bad the title Lost in Translation, which aptly describes much of the story of the Shall We Dance? remake, was already taken.
10/14/04
A movie that can't decide whether to frown or twirl.
10/13/04
Top Critica melodramatic nightmare marred by poorly contrived situations and emotionally weak characters
10/13/04
Peter Chelsom's one of the rare few these days who can truly create a world on film.
10/13/04
Shall We Dance opens so promisingly that it's a big disappointment when the picture suffers crucial missteps that throw off its entire rhythm.
10/13/04
Instead of class, we get crass. Instead of living characters, we get lazy stereotypes. Instead of light effervescence, we get a lead balloon.
10/13/04
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