Center Stage (2000)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

the audience applauded

Simply Perfect

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

So to start off, i am a dancer (modern not ballet) and will be as along as i can stand. i found this story very relate able. I think fellow dancers can also identify with many of the same situations and perhaps see some of our friends (dancers) in the characters. This does not mean by any means that non-dancers can't appreciate it. I think they can appreciate it as well but perhaps not understand some concepts. The acting was fairly good not the greatest in the world and the dancing was absolutely superb. The dancing was never boring. The movie overall was pretty good but not something that i would want to watch 3 times in one night or anything.

i quite enjoyed this movie.it follows a group of people as they try to make it as as dancers with a prestigious ballet company.as soon as i saw it was about ballet,i groaned inwardly.i thought there's no way this could be anything other than boring.but i was proved wrong very quickly.this movie is not just about ballet.there's more going on.lets just say this is a very high energy movie,with some great dance sequences.if you don't like ballet,i feel very confident in saying that won't matter in this case.for one thing the performances are all very good,both the dancing and the acting.and the movie is choreographed very well.not to mention the great soundtrack.for me,this is a really good 115 minutes. 8/10

Center Stage is a film in which one can see the troubles and the influence of "what looks good" can have on certain individuals. In this film, one can see the psychological effect that having a perfect body, and being pretty can have on the ballerinas in this film. Also, one can see how insecurity can drive you to do insane things. One can retreat themselves from the world, get away, get depressed, and have competition to be the best. For example in one scene, Jodi (one of the ballerinas) is told that she doesn't have the right body type, that her feet are not right. And she wished that she had her roommate's feet. She cried and despised the fact that she was told that she wasn't good. She practiced as hard as she could to be her best. She was ready to give up, because she saw herself as a failure. Later in the film she decides to practice dancing at another dance class. She met a man who saw talent in her and made her feel good. At the end of the film, she was given a main part in her original dance school. She than was offered to be partners with a private company. This shows the troubles that Jodi went through but yet found herself once again and gained her self esteem back. Another character that went through rough times was Maureen. Maureen was a ballerina because that is what her mom always wanted her to be. She always had to watch what she ate and at the long run she became bulimic. She was obsessed with looking thin and making her mother happy. Her boyfriend discovered that she was sick and made her realize what she was doing to herself. At the day of the audition, she gave her part to her friend who was also a dancer. Her mother went furious, Maureen told her mother that this was her dream not her owns. She told her that she was sick and that she didn't want to be this way any more. This film portrays the above and many more psychological effects that society "ideas" can have on an individual. These effects can minor and to another extreme can be very dangerous and even deadly.

Having read most of the other comments on this film, I find I fall pretty-much in the middle of the range of opinions. The reviewers who think this is either The Best or The Worst movie they've ever seen are equally mistaken. The plot and characters certainly are trite, but the cast performs with such enthusiasm and talent that I don't care. I love dance, on film or on stage, and the dancing in Center Stage is great. This is the Turning Point for the end of the millennium, blended with elements of Fame and Flashdance...or almost any "gotta dance!" sort of story. There are also story elements which seem to have been lifted directly from the novel Ballerina, by Edward Stewart.I especially enjoy the sequence wherein Amanda Schull goes to an off-limits Jazz class, runs into her dance hero/crush, and has a complete ball just shaking' it loose without Ballet discipline. It's a really enjoyable sequence, in no small part because the other class members are FANTASTIC dancers (Real non-company classes rarely include more than 2 dancers of the caliber of this entire class. Many of the unnamed people in that class are current or former members of the American Ballet Theatre).If you enjoy dance movies, you'l like Center Stage; if you don't, you won't.