Make It Happen
Director: Darren Grant
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Riley Smith, John Reardon, Tessa Thompson
Details: US / 90mins / (12A)
In a nutshell, Make It Happen is Step Up 2 feat. Save The Last Dance and How She Move (club mix). Lauryn (Winstead) moves from Indiana to the big smoke to fulfil her dream as a dancer but is rejected by the prestigious Chicago School Of Music And Dance and winds up taking a job as an accountant in a club to make ends meet. While waiting for a break, she hones her skills watching the club's dancers, as romantic interest DJ Russ (Smith) pushes her to believe in herself. Although Make It Happen is a competent movie, it's also bland and formulaic; there are only so many plot variations you can have with this kind of narrative - our financially strapped hero comes to big city to learn that the established dancing community aren't fond of their street style but finally succeeds because they believe in themselves - and Make It Happen struggles for anything resembling originality. Writer Duane Adler is a dab hand at this after penning Step Up 1 & 2, and Save The Last Dance 1 & 2, but his attempt to add some depth to Lauryn (she's an orphan) doesn't ring true. You can't really have your character down in the dumps in one scene and happy-go-lucky the next without one scenario feeling false. Winstead is fine in her first lead but she's lumbered with a character that is just too uninteresting to root for. The fact that the third Step Up, pencilled in for 2010, is in 3-D goes to show that ways of reinventing this sub genre are already on the wane.
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crap - missme
what a piece of crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Review Published 20 August 2008
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crap/alright - missme
it waz all right nothin that waz amazing in it .and i thought it would be a lot better!!!!! i only went because it was me friends birthday other than that it was to crap for words.
Review Published 20 August 2008
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it was bril:) - christina
this movie was very good. i loved it. i think it is for teenagers. and it is very true you allways have to fallow your dream. no matter wat... it has love, dancing etc in te movie so. i think it is... MORE
Review Published 15 August 2008
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Made the best of a bad plot. - Meems
Make it happen is not a perfect movie. It does not appeal to every audience - not everyone can relate to its theme of dancing and sticking with your dreams. But for teenage girls everywhere, this... MORE
Review Published 11 August 2008
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its all gud - hey hey222
i liked it
Review Published 10 August 2008
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what the f**k ?? - Maryheavey
Only a few words can describe this film and they are its 'a complete load of crap'. Iam so glad that my friend had dragged me along to this film as i would have been demanding my money back 10 mins... MORE
Review Published 07 August 2008
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