NOW ON DVD

HOW SHE MOVE
Rated PG-13
Rutina Wesley, Tracey 'Tre' Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Clé Bennett, Kevin Duhaney


Brian’s Rating       

The movement is called step dancing. It is primarily associated with hip-hop culture and serves as a method of expression, a symbol of status, and a platform for competition among America’s youth.

It is also the subject of How She Move, which is now available on DVD. Shot on the cheap with a cast of relative newcomers, How She Move is intended to be an inspirational tale of one young woman’s quest to get a good education.

But our heroine matches every good trait with a bad one and it becomes challenging to cheer her on. She studies hard, respects her family, and pays homage to her dead sister. She is also disloyal, disobedient and dishonest.

Thinking she has failed an exam that would provide a scholarship to a prestigious school, she enters a step-dancing competition in hopes of winning the cash prize. I’m not sure that the film’s message will get through to the audience at your house, but the dance numbers are frequent and quite impressive.