Save The Last Dance 2 Movie
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The best move... is following your heart.
Continuing the story of the original film, Sara (Izabella Miko) follows her dream and becomes a student at Juilliard. As she is excels and becomes a star pupil, Sara becomes torn between her love for traditional ballet and her passion for the urban street rhythms of hip-hop, complicated further by her new love, hip-hop musician Miles (Columbus Short). When pushed to make a choice, will she follow the path of the tried and true or will she take a risk and dance into uncharted territory?
| Izabella Miko | Sara Johnson |
| Columbus Short | Miles Sultana |
| Jacqueline Bisset | Monique Delacroix |
| Aubrey Dollar | Zoe |
| Ian Brennan | Franz |
| Maria Brooks | Katrina |
| Matthew Watling | Marcus |
| Roshan Amendra | Breakdancer |
| Ray J | Savion "DJ Scientific " Gibson |
| Ne-Yo | As himself |
| Ashley Evelyn Bell | Friend at the play |
| Ashleigh Rains | Ballet Dancer |
| David Petrarca |
4.80 out of 10 (709 votes)
Visitor Reviews
boy likes girl. boy gets girl. music involved along the way
posted on 23 Jun 2009this movie is something that you would watch if you have nothing better to do and you are stuck in a baking desert bus stop, with it being your only form of mental stimulation. The comment above is totally wrong. this movie is the same as the 1st and nothing has changed except the actors get worse and the budget is minuscule. Anyone who has seen this movie will agree with me that love when your young does not happen in the way portrayed in this movie. not that it was ever meant to portray a true sense of young love. moreover, the scale on which they portray love and relationships is beyond fairytale proportions which Walt Disney himself could not have conceived. in closing i would not recommend you wasting your valuable time watching this movie. if however, you are stuck in a baking desert bus stop think of this article and laugh as you watch it and say isn't that something.
Don't See If You Liked the First
posted on 02 Apr 2009This was a terrible movie with a bad plot line. They repeated the same story line as the first but with a different love interest for the same main character. The girl that they got to play Sara however was a terrible actress and was like watching a bad car crash. They had her in red gothy lipstick throughout the entire film that was distracting and unlike Sara. I can't even remember the dancing or the music because all I could think of was how bad this movie is. It totally ruined a great movie and now I am going to have to try to forget that I ever saw it in the first place. I honestly only watched it because it was on t.v. and there was nothing better to watch. It did not relay the message as the first one did. It sent out weird racial messages and was a disgusting display of how Hollywood is out of original ideas. I'd hate to be the writer of this script.
Good Entry
posted on 17 Feb 2009I'm a sucker for dance movies, even teen dance movies.Its one of the most basic pleasures, to see young people dance and if I am lucky, to dance with them.I'll tell you straight out that this is one of the very best of these. Yes, it has problems. Those first. Its stuck with this teen notion of "being yourself," to not let adult traditions become expectations that guide your life. Like all such movies, it itself is a rigid expectation, and the "freedom" here has our gal move into the most commercially defined trend in all the world. Its hardly free and individual to follow an adult template (refined to capture your ticketfare) which guides you to a mere collection of styles (appropriated and packaged to collect other dollars).Today, there is no genuine Hip Hop. Anywhere. And there are problems with the movie as well. There clearly were huge cuts. An entire story line involving a modern dance teacher seems to have been excised, even to the point that the actor isn't even credited! Some edits are really bad. All of the background characters are offensively trite.And maybe the worst offense is that the hip hop dance sequences aren't energetically photographed. Shucks. Our girl, is pretty. Very pretty. But the makeup is so perfect and extreme that it fights the impression we are supposed to get.Because this was made cheaply, it rents stock footage of New York and the exteriors of the center. One shot has the skyline with the twin towers. Its so jarring it breaks the flow.But forget that, because what's good is very good. I saw this young actress in "Forsaken" where she was merely the designated boobs. She's come a long way. She's credible in this rather constrained character. She seems natural, perhaps because she actually went through a similar experience.She really is a dancer, with a dancer's body. Strong back which we are allowed to see move. Ballet moves that because she is a real ballerina seem genuine. I see in the credits that she is doubled by a real dancer, but I could not see where. She is credible in both the ballet and "street" dancing.The male interest is also playing a role close to who he is, or thinks he is. So he does well.The story is a bit choppy, but it isn't at all the typical fare. There's a real surprise here that raises deeper issues of family than you expect. It really is nice to be surprised in the middle of one of these things. Its not predicable at all.The one ballet performance is photographed well, really well. Its only few moments, but dear, borrowing from Altman and "Red Shoes." Now, let me tell you why I want you to see this. Teen projects almost exclusively start and end clumsily. Its because they are so formulaic they needn't introduce you to the world because you come to the theater already tuned. This project starts so expertly I was charmed from the start.Our girl is in a chair with a small table, white background. She is speaking directly to us as if we were interviewing her. She explains the background of the predecessor movie as the background behind her changes. It seems she is controlling the staging of what we see while she is giving it.This is a scriptwriter's intelligence. The central notion in all these is to fold the audience in the theater to one on screen watching the climactic performance. This opening tells us that we will be a folded audience all the way through. Its a schooled technique, but I was glad to see it.The story comes to a close with all sorts of hanging threads. In an ordinary production, you'd see each of these in turn being resolved. Does she quit? Does she move in? How are the upset parental issues resolved? Thankfully, all these are left hanging. The final image we see is our girl in a frozen ecstatic leap, in the midst of a fusion dance, free. In a sort of Olivia Newton John wild girl outfit. Juices flowing.Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
If not compared to the first it's a pretty good flick
posted on 09 Feb 2009If you don't think of this as a sequel its actually a pretty good movie. Again with a great soundtrack, it's just a bit more grown up. With a lot more ballet, but a little less plot. It carries on the story where the original film ended. Kindly giving us a detailed reminder of the first in the opening and introducing us to the new actress who is playing Sarah, who seems the ballet dancer much more than our first Sarah did. Short one hunky boyfriend we soon find a new love interest in the shape of Sarahs uber hot hip hop teacher. From here the film is pretty predictable, what is Sarah's real dream and how can she reach it. I'd recommend this to anyone who enjoys films with love and dancing. It may not be original but it's still a fun watch.
Sarah, Hip Hop, and Ballet
posted on 15 Dec 2008Sarah Johnson had a lot of talent before her mother died but gained a lot more talent having to live in the Chicago ghetto (A lot of talented people come from the ghetto). Sarah gained the talent to dance hip-hop, even to use it in one of her audition dances for Julliard. Sarah was caught in a dilemma of choosing ballet or hip-hop and she finally felt in her heart that performing hip-hop was better than trying to be a famous ballerina. She had a new lover, new friends and a new life. There is no interracial problem but she does have a new black boyfriend (last one dropped he for his scholarship. The basic story is did she make a mistake going for Julliard.
save the last dance 2
posted on 06 Oct 2008Hi haven't yet seen Save the last dance two as i live in the UK and was wondering if anyone had an rough idea of when its going to be released over here in the cinemas? If anyone could comment me back then that would be great as i love save the last dance the first one.also if anyone had seen the film and have comments on it or opinions i would love to know what people think of it without giving it away about what actually happens!I'm still in shock they didn't get the original cast back,as i think it would be much easier to follow if it was but hey i'm sure it will be just as good but if anyone does have any comments on it please let me know
!!!!!!Worst Ending ever!!!!!
posted on 02 Oct 2008for those of you who have seen it anyone notice how the film didn't actually go anywhere? it just sort of ......stopped. so there was a lot of lardy dardy dancing, which is to be expected. but thats it. The plot line sort of fizzles out. Runs very similar to the first one.So ballet isn't for her. whoop de do. Nothing comes of that woman she meets outside smoking a cigarette. "come see me if you want to talk about anything" does she... no! a better ending would be that woman sets Sarah up for some choreographing interviews for big hip hop dancers. or something anything but the ending that was on there. I say again Worst ending ever
Excellent
posted on 21 May 2008I think the moves are great. It's very very nice. I have never seen before, such great combination of hip hop and ballet. It's a nice love story. If you love to see people dance and dance to the music, this movie is made for you. It looks a bit like the movie step up, music, dance and love, but both are great movies. The musics composed are very creative and very touching, where the Miles compose music with Sarah's heart beat. That is genius. The songs are not only just hip hop but with classical music and many more. What are you waiting for, this is a movie that you must watch. If you love arts, music, dance, hip hop, ballet, this is the movie created for you. This movie teaches people that you must follow your dreams using your heart, no matter how hard it is, do what it is best for you, not for others. Although, sometimes life seems so hard to reach your goal but don't give up, do it to perfection. Once you have achieved it, you would be so happy that you would be thinking, "Luckly, I didn't give up my dream." It's all though hardwork and effort that i have put in just like Sarah.
Lacking Something
posted on 17 May 2008I just recently saw this movie because I really was looking for a movie to watch. I had already read he comments for this movie before I saw it. This movie was lacking something. I mean the chemistry was OK between Sara and Miles but the dance movies was horrible. A viewer could tell that the new Sara could not dance hip hop. The way it went with the music was just bad. I did like the plot and the meaning behind the movie. The way Sarah acted and her ballet was excellent though. The funny thing is that you can tell that the actress used to be a ballerina in real life. I did love Miles. He really is why I watched the movie for the second time. He is really cute and his smile does light up the movie. But after everything was said and done, the movie was just missing something that I can put my foot on.
loved it, definitely buying it :)
posted on 17 Apr 2008I liked this movie just about as much as the first, if not more. I know it's odd to say that about a sequel, and a sequel going straight to DVD without it's original cast no less, but I really liked it. I thought it was a good movie about following your heart and finding your place and passion. Some people are saying that it has the same storyline as the original, but I didn't see that. I thought it was completely different. There are different people, different surroundings. Sarah is already at Julliard in this one and she's in love with rap and hip-hop music at this point. How can you be more different than that? I'll definitely buy it to add it to the original in my collection of DVDs at home. :)
Worth your time
posted on 01 Apr 2008What i didn't expect about (Save The Last Dance 2) is that a movie made for a home release only can be that good. To be honest it's almost an exact replica of (Save The Last Dance), same plot, same dance styles. However a different cast and a slightly different story could make you enjoy this one just as much you enjoyed (Save The Last Dance). The acting was good enough, directing was OK, although the editing was quite bizarre, scenes were like suddenly changing that at some point made the movie a little bit hard to follow at a certain plot twist. Izabella Miko and her fabulous look and her excellent dancing style was the best thing in the movie. also the music chosen in the movie really fits. To sum up i think this movie is worth your time. i hope you enjoy it. .
This movie annoyed me
posted on 23 Dec 2007save the last dance(1)was such a good movie. the story was awesome and the cast was great. THIS MOVIE... The cast was completely redone and it was a real letdown. No one can replace Julia Stiles as Sarah Johnson--angry ballet dancer with the hot black guy chasing after her(ha-ha) The only reason I sat thru the whole movie was because Columbus Short was in it. Hes gorgeous and he saved the movie. No offense to Izabella Miko but she killed the role of Sarah and NOT in a good way. The story was a bit lame and really the movie shouldn't have been made unless it was with Julia Stiles. (of course we could keep Columbus Short in it because hes hot). But other than that...someone should have really stopped production on this until they got the original cast back. I say we call a do-over.
Very well done dance movie.
posted on 09 Nov 2007I really enjoyed this movie. Most Hollywood dance movies are very poorly done, simply because they rarely cast anyone with the requisite training to make the dancing sequences enjoyable, believable, or even worth watching. Ballet is not something you can pick up in 6 months of intense training. Prior to watching the movie, I looked up the lead actress, and was delighted to find she actually has had classic dance training. That became very clear, watching her dance. The movie does have a few nice plot twists, as far as the relationships of the key characters. I also enjoyed the portrayal of Julliard.Excellent movie, if you enjoy dance, and, have danced, or been involved with the world of ballet, or modern dance.
Boring and poorly done.
posted on 18 Sep 2007I did not enjoy this movie at all. It is one of the worst sequels ever made. All they did was alter the first movie slightly, take out some of the conflict, throw in some different actors...The fact that they found another actress to play the same character was already a huge disappointment. And this was before I even started the movie. Facts pop out randomly and characters that started out in the story just disappeared because of lame reasons.I did not find the 'big finale' very interesting, meaning I had to sit through an hour and a half of drama that I'd already seen in the first movie, just so I could see the poorly done finish.
complaints
posted on 09 Aug 2007OK well i definitely think that they should have stuck with Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas. They would have looked so much better in save the last dance 2.Izabella Miko was to Gothic to be Sara i didn't like how when she was in the "pit" she was very Gothic and it did not look like something Sara Johnson would were. And one more thing when Sara and mille are walking in the park her boot steps are WAY to loud you can barley hear them talk.Oand what about Zoe what was her point in the movie any way? at least Chenille was there to help people along the way and she got a point across that it doesn't matter who you love as long as they love you back. I done now.
This Writer Should Not Be Allowed to Hold a Pen
posted on 12 Jul 2007There were some good moments in STLD2, sure, but the few good ones could not make up for all the bad. In the first five minutes of this movie we saw an interview with no context (Who was interviewing her? Why? Documentary?) and a misfired Hamlet joke.On the first appearance of the room mate, Zoe (who even has a cliché quirky brunette name) we see that the writer clearly doesn't even have the basic knowledge required for his craft. Zoe's trunk is full of random things that are nothing but random and there to paint her as the crazy whore drama kid. Thanks. I appreciate you stereotyping my people. When the skull was picked up and Zoe said that it was Hamlet, I almost turned off the movie. I don't think you can call yourself a writer if you are not familiar with the masterpiece of English speaking literature. THE SKULL IS YORIK! The rest of the movie follows in this way. Clichés, bad lines and jokes that don't quite make sense in context. There was a good moment where Miles (Columbus Short, the redeeming actor in this movie) plays the sound of ice cracking. That was pretty much it. The dances weren't that good and half of them were cut creatively so they didn't really have to show them. Half of one girl's dance was inter cut with the exact same "oh puh-lease" expression that the main actress kept pulling. It was painful.The movie didn't address the race issue (which was half the point of its predecessor) and the conflict was a creation of the main character's head where she decided her boyfriend lied to her when in fact he never did. They never danced together either. So why was it a sequel? The movie also had an annoyingly self righteous message about conservatory schools. They painted the elite elimination of students in the lower half of the class as cruel. Sorry, in the real world you DON'T get an A for effort and people CHOOSE to go to conservatory schools for the elitism and the status they can achieve if they make it through. Boohoo, life isn't fair.At the end of the movie I really hated the main character. She pretty much spat in the face of her teacher by refusing to go to the party. Instead of being grateful for her amazing opportunity and letting the old bird show her off for a few hours and then quitting ballet the next day, she had to embarrass her. It's not her fault you don't wanna be a ballerina! In the end I think someone else wrote Miles (Columbus Short) and then they hired a fifteen year old girl wannabe dancer to write the rest of the movie. Way to go. When there are so many talented writers who are struggling to make ends meet, you go and pay someone who should probably go be an accountant.
Did not care for the movie
posted on 28 Mar 2007My daughter and I loved Save the Last Dance 1 (one of our favorite movies). When we saw there was a second one, we were so excited. We watched the movie through it's entirety, but at the end of the movie we were both very disappointed in the movie. The movie itself was good - but just knowing that it was a continuation of Sara's life, is what upset us over the movie. None of the original cast was in the second one (no one can take Julia Stiles place in that movie) and just the fact that everything that Sara and Derek went through in the first one just to be together - "they" decided to take a break from each other and date other people. The second one was a big let down. If the second one would have been about someone else's life - it would have been a great movie - on it's own.
i thought it was going to be poor, but you know what its not bad.....
posted on 25 Jan 2007I've got to say when I first heard about a Save the last dance 2 I thought cheap knock off can never come near the original. Then when I saw the cast for this film i was even inclined to feeling this was going to be a poor sequel but you know what its not that bad...I think that this is a fun lively little film its not a world beating film or anything like that but a good film to watch in the comfort of your home. I find this is probably one of the better dance films on the market at the moment and the love story element flowing in the background carries the film along nicely. I think perhaps 6/10 is a fair mark for this film.
adequate
posted on 10 Dec 2006This wasn't too bad a movie. It was basically about following your dreams and dealing with adversity along the way. Although I had basically seen the movie before with different titles (if you get my meaning), I thought the movie was good. Izabella Miko was good in the lead role as she performed the dance scenes well. Those scenes, by the way, were spectacular! (especially the ballet scenes and the part at a night club) While the themes of the movie were familiar, I found this movie to be refreshing and a good way to spend less than an hour and a half. I would recommend it.** 1/2 out of ****
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Izabella Miko and the Dance Choreography Make It Worth
posted on 25 Jul 2009Sara (Izabella Miko) joins Julliard in New York to fulfill hers and her mother dream and become the prima ballerina of the school. She befriends her roommate Zoe (Aubrey Dollar) and Miles (Columbus Short), who gives classes of hip-hop. She has ballet classes with the rigid and famous Monique Delacroix (Jacqueline Bisset) that she idolizes and Monique requires full commitment, discipline and hard work from her students. When Miles, who is a composer that researches sounds, invites Sara to help him in the dance choreography of his music, Sara's passion for hip- hop arises and she falls in love for Miles. When she is assigned to perform Giselle in an important event, she feels divided between the technique of the ballet and the creative work offered by Miles."Save the Last Dance 2" is a messy romance, full of incoherencies. For example, Sara's dream has always been to join Julliard and become the prima ballerina. Her mother died while driving to see her audition. However, when she has just accomplished success and recognition, she concludes that ballet is a mechanical repetition of steps and movements and she throws her promising career in the garbage in an absurd impulse. The relationship between Miles and Monique is ridiculous. I could list many other flaws in the story, but "Save the Last Dance 2" is also pleasant and entertaining if the viewer does not think much about the plot. Last but not the least, Izabella Miko and the dance choreography make it worth. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "No Balanço do Amor 2" ("In the Swing of Love 2")