Center Stage: On Pointe

2016

Action / Drama / Music

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 1444 1.4K

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Plot summary

Jonathan Reeves is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy, and enlists his top choreographers Charlie, Cooper and Tommy to recruit dancers to compete at a camp where the winners will be selected to join the Academy. Bella Parker, who has always lived in the shadow of her hugely successful sister Kate, finally gets her chance to step into the limelight as one of the dancers recruited for the camp.

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by HotToastyRag 6 / 10

Sad, but I'll watch any 'Center Stage' flick

Oh, how sad. The Step Up franchise continued to wow audiences with flashy camerawork and dirty dancing, and the original dance movie, Center Stage, got demoted to television. Two years after Step Up made a splash, Center Stage made a sequel and pretty much copied their formula, focusing more on modern and street dancing than ballet. Sixteen years after the original, Center Stage: On Pointe was the third in the trilogy. Peter Gallagher, Ethan Stiefel, and Sascha Radetsky, were sixteen years older, and the latter two transitioned from principal dancers to teachers at the American Ballet Company. Die-hard fans like me will appreciate seeing the three from the original film, but it is a little sad to face the fact that we all get old, and dancers get old faster than the rest of us.Since appreciation for classical ballet has dwindled in the past sixteen years, Peter, as company director, has agreed to expand the academy with a modern dance branch. Ethan, Sascha, and the star of the second Center Stage (and the remake of Footloose), Kenny Wormald, have "dance boot camp" in a fun cabin in the woods to recruit the best of the best to join the academy. You'll also see Kenny's costar from the earlier film, Rachele Brooke Smith, since it's her younger sister (See, we all get old), Nicole Munoz, who is the lead in this one.While I'll watch any Center Stage film, my loyalty lies with the 2000 original. I love seeing classically trained ballet dancers, since their dedication to their craft starts practically as soon as they can walk, as they alter their bone structure while their bones are still soft and pliable. Modern dancers have to learn techniques and possess great muscular control, but they don't permanently alter their bodies for the chance of a few successful years of dancing before injury or "age" (at thirty) cuts their careers short. It's just not the same thing. Ballet is danced to classical compositions; modern dance is set to rap and hip hop, and frequently relies on sexuality to attract fans and viewers. I'd rather watch a ballet performance than an MTV video, even though the dancers in the latter have practiced and worked very hard.
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Reviewed by exlemor 5 / 10

Decent attempt at expressing a little known world...

I wonder how many of the other reviewers have *actually* danced or been in a Ballet company/auditions. I may be a hetero guy but I did 8 years of Ballet.

While the main actress Nicole may have lacked in *enough* ballet training, she did a pretty good job considering. I am so tired of people judging body type or shape to judge if or if not they can or can not be a dancer... wake up people, we are in 2016, the world is not a cage made of perfect ballerinas... we are all different and all allowed to express who we are through dance.

This is no different than a movie like High Strung where the main actor does NOT play the Violin well (been playing that since I was 5) and yet people don't get nearly as bent out of shape and yet for me, it's somewhat painful to watch...

One aspect of the movie that I find quite accurate and well played out is the competition, gossiping, even some would say backstabbing that happens in the Ballet world..

The plot is interesting while not entirely original if you spend enough time in and around Ballet Companies..... The Ballet Instructor, Lorenza was quite hard, harsh, bitter and that is quite common and realistic.

For most people who have no idea what the Ballet world or even dance world is really about this is a nice introductory glimpse into the discipline, amount of work, difficulty that it is...

All in all, I'd probably be willing to give it a 6 out of 10 but settled on 5 for the lack of authenticity of the main actress' dancing even though I am sure she tried very hard. Plus we don't know who was there to coach the quality of dancing during production so it's a little too easy to give 1-2 reviews and give out very harsh comments.

I found it entertaining enough and didn't find myself wanting to fast forward once or quit watching. Even though there are better movies in the genre, it was still a nice way to spend time while stuck in bed with a leg injury.

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