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Mad Hot Ballroom [DVD]

Rated: Universal, suitable for all | Format: DVD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 20 Mar 2006
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000E3LIGI
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 16,433 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
A splendid film 1 Mar 2006
Format:DVD
This film is so enjoyable, it completely caught me by surprise. Not being interested in Ballroom dancing I thought it might be a bore, but I was captivated. A little over-long in some of the competition parts where you have to see each performance of each dance, but completely necessary plot-wise. Its a gem of a film, exploring not only these children learning the particular dances and their investment in the competition side of it, but also a glimpse into their lives and opinions about growing up in NYC. You'll find yourself rooting for the children to win their competitions, but also wishing you could see them ten years on, to see where they end up in life.
Rent it or buy it, its really fun to watch!
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Mad Hot Ballroom 20 Mar 2006
Format:DVD
Don't hesitate! if this film is advertised near you, get your butt down there! Even better, buy the dvd, as I have just done. As the lights went up my face was aching from all the smiling I'd done, and by the look of the faces in the theatre, we all felt the same. There was a crowd of people standing longingly by the exit waiting as every credit rolled, every now and then there was another clip and no one wanted to miss them.
Yes, it sounds like we were a bunch of sad sacks, but we weren't. watch it and enhance your life. Love of ballroom dancing not necessary.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Beautiful 28 Jan 2006
Format:DVD
There is a scene about one third of the way into this brilliant documentary about the more than sixty New York City elementary and middle schools that have organized programs and competitions for salsa, merengue and other ballroom dancing where a young female teacher can no longer hold back her emotions. She speaks directly into the camera while students talk amongst themselves in her classroom. She puts her best, most professional foot forward for the camera, to best express the importance of what she is doing in an honest but demure and educated fashion. But when she thinks about what she is witnessing, more than what she is doing for these children, her heart becomes full and overflows before our eyes. She knows what she has to say is the most important thing for people to get about what she is doing and the entire movie--and maybe her life's work--but she tries to say it without crying, until she realizes she cannot.

She finally loses her polite smile as her lips begin to tremble and says something to the effect of "I'm watching them become ladies and gentlemen..." and the tears begin rolling down her cheeks.

Not to mention mine.

If you ever find a movie that can make you believe in the redemptive power of art, the joyful majesty of dance, the culturally kaleidescopic beauty of New York City and the fact that "the children" really are "the future" simultaneously better or moreso than this film, please e-mail me and tell me the title so I can go and buy it. I had an apatrment in Manhattan about a twenty minute walk uptown from the first school showcased in this documentary MAD HOT BALLROOM, but I can tell you, a person in Des Moine or Chicago--or Beijing, for that matter--will be as deeply touched by this movie as any native New Yorker. Other reviewers have wisely revealed that part of the magic exists in the documentarists making you care about the lives of specific children involved in this. You really have to see the film to see how true that is. But that serves as the vehicle through which we are led to discover how incredible the dance competition is, and how important it is as a cultural phenomenon.

I walked away from this movie feeling this: if the Constitution were set to music, the music would be jazz. But the dance would be merengue!

It is impossible not to see this movie and feel good about life afterwards.

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