The internet also seems to believe that at the end of Barbie, Gerwig and Baumbach made a reference to the 2002 Disney movie Gotta Kick It Up!, which stars Ferrera as a member of her high school dance team. Red pill blue pill? Pink shoe Birkenstock? /DT3qLU4rmr It is another awesome movie about a cheerleading team and making their way through the competitions.Barbie has to choose to go back to the what she knows or find out the uncomfortable truth.

And if you liked this movie I recommend watching 'Bring It On'. In my opinion this movie shows great team spirit and great dance moves, along with some awesome music. One of the best solutions it shows is how the girls work together to over come their problems like for example when they don't have enough money to go to the nationals so they work together to raise money and one of the girls is failing a class so if she can add up the money they raised the teacher agreed that they would bring her mark up just enough so they should would pass. They also solve problems with self-esteem and social problems. It takes you through their challenges of trusting one another and having faith in themselves and believing that they can do it, and that the things they want to do are best when they are worth waiting for. The plot is exciting and you never know what the girls are going to do next. I have taped it and taken it to school with me to a Spanish class. This movie was very enjoyable, I have watched it 4 or 5 times and never have gotten bored of it. Although fun to watch, this movie doesn't pack the emotional power of some of its more famous counterparts, but serves as a stepping stone for some young actresses to go on to greater things. The other actor of note here is Miguel Sandoval (currently the district attorney on TV's 'Medium') who plays the tough-because-he-has-to-be school principal. In addition to the dance teacher played by Susan Egan, whose long list of credits is one with which I'm mostly unfamiliar, are actors who appear later in more familiar roles, most notably the two leads, Camille Guaty (TV's 'Prison Break' and 'The Nine') who plays a dance diva who, under the tutelage of Julliard washout Heather Bartlett (the aforementioned Susan Egan), learns to become a team player, and America Ferrera ('The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'), star of the current TV hit, 'Ugly Betty'. In this case, it's a dance team, and the draw here of course are the many dance numbers strung throughout the course of plot and action. This is another in a long line of feel-good films wherein a down-and-out school team overcomes a variety of difficulties and rises to victory. After seeing it I would have to give it an 8.5 out of 10. It also takes place in southern California.

It is the typical Disney Channel movie length and about what you'd expect. I am very glad that the Disney Channel took the time to make a movie that has some Spanish culture in it and a little more variety. It was much better than I thought and was not boring. It teaches you about dance and different moves and how to prepare. If you are a girl, you will especially like it.

But other than that, it has a good story to it with a moral, is sad in some spots and witty in some. One of the flaws that I saw was that in the movie, the characters are supposed to be playing 9th graders, when they look like they are 18 or 19. The dancers in the film which are also the actresses perform just as professionals do. The choreography was very well taught and learned. Even though the movie is centered on dance and cheer leading, it still has a great story to tell. This movie has a lot of Spanish and Hispanic people in it. All in all, we could not identify with any of the characters and felt that a bad example was set by every character including the principal! Disney - what were you thinking? The main character of the 'tough girl' was so annoying my teenage daughter and I could hardly keep from smacking the TV set in response to her antics. The girls consistently were rewarded for awful behavior. While wearing a bad wig with a style from the 60's, she exhibited mostly blank expressions while allowing these generally rude, disrespectful and obnoxious girls to walk all over her. The character of the teacher wasn't believable. These supposed 9th grade girls, with no formal dance background are molded by their reluctant new coach into talented dancers in just a few weeks. Dot.com failure brings a white computer tech to try something entirely different - teaching 9th grade biology at an inner-city school where she is also drafted to coach a mixed bag of girls for the school's dance team.

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