Strictly Ballroom | Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice

Strictly Ballroom | Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice | Strictly Ballroom

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	Strictly Ballroom Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice Miramax, 2002 average customer review:based on 218 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

quirky fun film

I really like this "quirky" off-beat film. It has a kind of "English" dry humor to it. If you liked "The hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy" you will like this film too. I liked this film enough to buy and send my mother a copy.

Strictly Ballroom

If you love the Australian funny movies, you will love this one. I love the story line, and the humour in this movie. My friend showed me this is college and I have liked it since. It has humour, romance and the good girls wins in the end.

Irresistible

I have watched this film numerous times. It is so delightful, full of color, humor, wonderful dancing and infectious music. You can't resist "Love is in the Air." You'll find yourself singing it for days after watching the film.

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celebration of colour and movement set to music

Strictly Ballroom made me believe in film making as a true art form. It is a celebration of colour and movement set to music. The story seamlessly weaves in the timeless themes of `one man versus the world' and `the ugly duckling'. The romance across ethnic lines adds to the spice and vigour.

You don't have to love dancing to love the movie, but after viewing it you may gain a new appreciation of dance sport as competition or perhaps art, the movie entertains both lines of thinking.

However, those who have been brought up on slick, big budget, Hollywood films might find some scenes a bit crudely cut. The humour is quirky. But herein lies its charm. In the commentary, the film makers said that a lot of their limited budget went into just a few small things, namely: the scene with the train going past, the rights to the song where they slow danced behind the curtain, and the rights to use the Coca-Cola neon sign as dance prop. Whatever, every cent was spent to perfection.

If the definition of a great movie is one that you can watch again and again without ever getting tired of it, then this perhaps could be the greatest movie ever made. I've seen it about a dozen times and I still cry at the end (and I'm a red blooded male).

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Just for fun

I only had the videotape and now also the DVD. I had to change the regioncode of my DVD player and I did watch the movie again. It was nice to see it again.

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