Two worlds, one dream.
As Mark Kermode pointed out re High School Musical 3 (2008), you've got attractive athletic young people displaying fantastically skillful dance numbers to foot-tapping music in a coherent narrative. What's not to like? The lead actress was very charming and the supporting cast were fine if unremarkable.
True, the story was fairly unoriginal, seeming to pretty much retread the narrative of Step Up 2 (2008). There wasn't much verbal acting for the supporting dancers. There wasn't a big villain, as in the High School Musical franchise, to create lots of conflict.
As for the 3D... It's annoying and I find it gets in the way of my appreciation of what's happening on the screen. I actually find that it's somewhat difficult for my eyes to physically focus on what I'm trying to look at. Worse, it seems that everything is calling out for my attention, and I'm being distracted from the main action by insignificant peripheral objects. For example, there's a bed scene where we're looking up at the lovers from the foot of the bed, and there are various planes of vision: first, in the foreground, the foot of the bed, then the sheets on the bodies of the lovers, receding to the more distant head of the bed, where the main action of the heads, arms and faces of the lovers can be seen. But alongside them, calling for attention, are various cups, etc.
I think there is a use for 3D, connected to what seems to be vertical planes of vision bisecting the audience's view. So, for instance, a film using the kind of tracking shot that Peter Greenaway used in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) movie... But they didn't make such great use of it in this film.
- Rating: Matinee
- When seen: 2 Jun 2010
- Where seen: Cinema
- More information: IMDB | RottenTomatoes | Wikipedia
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Amendments: 1) A few tweaks of the text, mainly to add years to films mentioned. 2) Corrected foolish link to "Step Up 3" (wrong film entirely) in Amazon.com to StreetDance 3D - Sorry! Removed link to Wikipedia-sourced image. Added ranking image.
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