Honey (2003)

Touches You

Don't Believe the Hype

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Honey Daniels, an aspiring dancer, runs a dancing school with emphasis on hip-hop. Her goal is to keep the children off the streets of Harlem.One of several reasons that this is a good film is that there is absolutely no violence.When Honey makes it big, she begins to neglect the children and then discovers that her producer wants sexual favors before her career and really jump. Refusing to yield to his demands makes him do the most despicable thing-have her fire the children he had previously agreed to letting perform.At this point, the film takes a Judy-Mickey approach. Have a benefit to raise funds for a dance school. Of course, this is successful as you can imagine.The dancing is great. The story-line of fulfillment and promise are both realized. Jessica Alba, as Honey, is wonderful in the role.

Honey is a film that stars Jessica Alba together with Mekhi Phifer, Lil' Romeo, Joy Bryant, David Moscow and features performances by Tweet, Jadakiss and Ginuwine. This is a feature debut from music-video director Bille Woodruff. Honey is a girl from the streets who works in a record store, teaches the occasional dance class at a community center, and treks downtown every weekend to hit the clubs and try out some new moves. There, she meets a music video producer who offers her a chance to be a choreographer. But at a price she eventually learns she's unwilling to pay. Determined to pick herself back up, Honey goes back to the inner- city of her youth with plans of starting a dance school.Honey is the usual Hollywood silliness, executed with sincerity but not much imagination. For some reason, Alba's sexy gyrations are supposed to be more empowering than other dancers' sexy gyrations, while being no less titillating.But nevertheless, it provide some lift to this corny and formulaic movie.

Jessica Alba is Honey, a bartender and dancer, a deadly combination, much like Jennifer Beal's welder/artist in the wonderful masterpiece Flashdance. The stupidity is on par with the struggles encountered by another girl battling the forces against her dreams of success against all odds.Honey's goal in life is to star in music videos; oh what ambition. A local community center is in shambles and needs a complete overhaul, so our savior will come to the rescue and boy can she multi task. Honey opens a dance studio for the kiddies and arranges a benefit concert to raise money to rebuild the center. This movie belongs on the lifetime channel and the only reason I'm giving it a five is for Jessica Alba's awesome body.

This movie is wonderful, because it's great dancing on hip-hop music, but there is also A storyline that's perfect for this movie. The humor is great and the street culture is used for the storyline(it actually tells young girls and boys to get out of the thug life, because there are other things in this world then shooting someone because he disrespected you, i mean that's stupid). And Honey(Jessica Alba)has this really great strong personality, and there is one scene that's really great, that's when the director try's to seduce Honey to have sex, but when Honey says STOP IT, girls like Paris Hilton would think, ooh geezzz, i probably surrendered myself and let him screw me. This is A movie every (Beginning)celebirty must see, cause then they understand that Hollywood is SOMETIMES pretty corrupt.