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It's a low budget film, so horrible over-acting is to be expected. The story is predictable, but I don't regret watching it. My 9 yr old daughter is in love with ballet, and it was on netflix, so I thought I'd give it a try for an evening when it was just the two of us. She loved the entire movie. (but I don't think her brothers would agree - haha) It was really cute seeing her cheer Tutu on. The final dance number was incredible!

Yes there are some talented dancers in the show, thank goodness for that. The quality of dance is quite good but the acting and direction leaves me wondering just what were the producers and directors thinking? The piano player at the studio, along with the ballet mistress and the mothers are so over exaggerated I cringe. The girls are truly dancers but the over characterized mean girl and awkward girl personas are again just too much to overlook. The story is quite predictable ad overdone. And what's with the hot pink in every single scene? I understand having a color scheme but this is rediculous: What single father would decorate the entire kitchen in fuchsia? I was so hoping there would be a well made show for dancers. They really missed a great opportunity to fill the void of quality ballet shows.

I really want to give this movie an eight or nine, but I wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror in the morning. First, let me say that this is not meant to be any type of indictment of the young ballerinas in the movie. Their dancing was the highlight of the movie and their heart is what kept the movie afloat. But in the meantime, the adults fumbled their way through the movie, rattling of "jokes" that were so unfunny, you questioned whether they were meant to be one. ("Was that supposed to be a joke? Or did I just miss something?)

The movie has its customary mean girls who predictably start off rotten and end up not so rotten. And it's Devil wearing prada, who starts off the movie with the harsh strictness of a Nazi and ends up at the end a little not so strict. Most baffling is that these transformations (which usually occur with nothing more than a single line) appear suddenly with seemingly almost no forethought.

Again, the girls (ballerinas) in this were all wonderful and should not be blamed for an uninspiring and unoriginal story. They didn't write this crap, after all. However, if you do love ballet, the dancing is wonderful! If you suffer through the first half, you'll be treated to some good dancing in the second. Turn off your cynicism for a moment and you might be able to even enjoy it -- but that's only if you like ballet to begin with.

All in all, I feel you'd have to be Hitler to utterly despise this movie with the adorable young cast and the heart they put into this. On the other hand, you'd have to not seen a single movie in your life to think the plot was either compelling or unique. Two stars is too harsh. Five stars is pandering. I land somewhere between 3 and 4.

The blatant racism and bullying from adults and children in this movie is horrifying.

Alleged Plot: A heart-warming family film about one girl's dream of dancing in the lead and realizing the only way to do it, is believing that you can. Real Plot: Nyquil.

This is the worst movie I have ever seen. Filled with thin unreal scenes, badly drawn characters and direction that will put you to sleep.

This movie feels like a really really really bad after school special. Only there's nothing special.

I don't understand why the acting is so bad in this, they were both in hollyoaks and acted fine so surely they know how too 🤔 it made me cringe all the way through and the mum's are so over bearing but my 6 year old enjoyed it. It's a just a really bad movie

This is pretty much Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer translated into a movie about ballet. Terrible people treat others like garbage because they're slightly different. Then said terrible people embrace the different folks when they provided material benefit.

The moral of the story seems to be, "Treat people like garbage until they help you."

If you told me this was written by one of the kids and acted entirely by their parents I'd believe you. That said my 3 year old loves it.

A cute movie. Acting is not great but if you look past this it's ok to watch. My 4 year old loved the dancing and was twirling along whenever a dance scene came up. The bullying was a bit overdone I think, and the over zealous dance mums as well.

It was a cute kid's movie. The characters were lovable, though maybe not realistic. Beautiful dancing throughout.

I watched this with 2 girls aged 6 and 8. They adored it!! They don't go to ballet classes but they love to dress up as ballerinas and dance and they were glued to this film from start to finish. Usually the 6 year old gets restless when watching a film and rarely makes it to the end of one, but this kept them both sat down for the entirety. The bad reviews seem unfairly harsh - it's a low budget, small production and shouldn't be compared to any big hollywood kids film. I'm not going to say it's a brilliant storyline or oscar award winning acting, but it is a cute British film with good actors and great dancing and i'm sure any young girls who love to dance would really enjoy it.

Sweet, simple, cute and enterrtaining. My son loves this film and watches it loads on Netflix.