Sunday, September 26, 2004

Shall We Dance?

I'd like to open this by yelling a big 'Shut up!' to all you Musicals/Movies about music hatters. And ok, I'd accept if you're a JLo hater, but this movie is about Richard Gere, not her.

Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon are the stars here, with Stanley Tucci and Jennifer Lopez next.
Tucci is particularly excellent every time he's onscreen, and Jennifer is just hot. And we all know she can dance.
Richard Gere looked very real and I really loved Susan Sarandon. She was beautiful.
The smaller parts were very good too with Anita Gillette as the dancing teacher for Gere, Bobby Cannavale and Omar Benson Miller who were also good. There 2 or 3 more good characters too.

The story is pretty simple with Richard Gere being the guy with a boring life taking dance lessons to get close to Jennifer Lopez but he starts liking it and even participating in a tournament.
Susan Sarandon is his wife and thinks, since he hides the fact that he's dancing, that he's having an affair.

So the movie is very good. It has comedy, romance, some drama, and it has dancing. Very good ballroom dancing. Very Classy.