| Burn the Floor
Released: 2000-01-01
| | Only $1.99 | | | Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Brilliant
Comment: I have the DVD for almost 3 years and watch it repeatly until I lost count. Love it! This is such a joy, entertain, educate and inspiration. I am not saying that I am going to get dancing lesson but I learnt 3 things from "Burn the Floor", dedicate, teamwork and think outside the box. I love the quote that the Producer mentioned in the making of about the dancer that eventhough they were so tried but still work harder to make the dance perfect. That's BRILLIANT
Rating: 1 (out of 5)
Summary: Not what I expected
Comment: Poor quality video. Not at all what was expected for a dance movie. The description made it seem like a ballroom dance movie, and I'm honestly not sure exactly what it was, because I turned it off after about 10 minutes.
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Summary: Couldn't watch it
Comment: I should have known. It sounded Broadwayesque. I generally like movies about ballroom dancing (there are many modern classics), so I gave it a chance. What a mistake. I sensed something was horribly wrong as soon as the little sailor costumes came out in the prologue. Ouch! Wrong demographic. Also, am I the only one overexposed to all this excessive attitude modern performers apparently need, so they can project miles away into the cheap seats? To be fair, I am certain all of the dancers are hardcore, dedicated professionals that give it their all, day in, day out. I'm happy for their careers, but this is just not for me, kids.
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Exceptional dancing
Comment: Burn the Floor enthralled me with the dancing, energy, and costumes. Watching ballroom dancers is the next best thing to being able to dance like them, which I cannot! Also quite interesting is the making of the movie, and some of the dancers' stories.
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Summary: Great dancing ruined by gimmick and glitz...
Comment: The dancing or dancers are by no means 2 stars! They are very talented dancers, but the "visionary", if you want to call him or her that, did not do the dancing or dancers justice. I think they were going for an innovative approach that just came off as flashy and gimmicky. The costumes, lighting, and make-up detracts from the dancers and over-all just doesn't flatter them. I mean, they dancers wore metallic jeans and combat boots with black lipstick and eye make-up during a samba and for their paso doble the men wore metal shin guards while a women danced around in a huge head-piece. All this really took away from the dancing, the dancers looked so made up at times that I didn't even bother to look at the dancing. I know that the show was trying to be bold, new, and daring and I don't blame them, it was 1999 and everyone and everything back then was trying to be new, daring and futuristic. It might of worked back then, but now it's just cheesy and cheap. The sequel to this is so much better.
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