Shall We Dance?

[notinKansasanymore]

The other night, my phone rang at 9pm; it was a girlfriend who felt like seeing a movie. We left our children with our husbands and went to the 10:15 pm showing. This is the perfect scenario for seeing "Shall We Dance?" because it's such a perfect chick movie! It's also a redemption movie, and art movie, and a "find beauty in yourself" movie.

I recommend it on all of these levels, and find it to be yet another reason to distrust CNN.com's movie reviewers. That review said to avoid it, but it turned out that the reviewer was obsessed with the Japanese 1996 version. Pardon my parochialism, but I'd never heard of the '96 film, and compared the current version to nothing except my personal standard for good entertainment.

I liked it quite a bit.

[lindyhopper]

Dorothy,

You should see the 96' version. It was a great movie and I personally can't imagine why they would try and redo it. I'm sure the new one is fine, but for those of us who saw the first one, it will probobly take a back seat. The strange and goofy guy in the Japanese version was hilarious.

Another funny dancing and romancing movie was the Australian "Strickly Ballroom".

[Cindy!]

I just saw this movie yesterday on ppv...thought it was a nice movie with a good message. Would've liked to have seen Patrick Swayze play Gere's role, though (but mostly because of his dancing). He may be too young to pull off the age of that character.