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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 3385
Released: August 29, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A ballroom dance instructor uses his training to reach disillusioned inner city teenagers.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 4-SEP-2007
Media Type: DVD
Description of Take the Lead:
The sensuous thrill of ballroom dancing collides with the hip-hop world of self-expression in Take the Lead. Antonio Banderas (Desperado, The Mask of Zorro) stars as Pierre Dulaine, a dance teacher who--perhaps to fill a void in his own life--decides to teach the foxtrot and the tango to a group of inner-city high school students who've been put in detention. The kids sullenly resist this intruder with his silly box-steps, but gradually succumb to the allure of passion channeled into physical grace. It's a lot of hooey, of course--the stories about the individual kids are shallow melodrama--but a movie like this isn't so much about plot as about dancing, and the dancing bewitches. The main problem of Take the Lead is that there isn't enough dancing; at least half of the personal struggle of the students could be jettisoned and happily be replaced by fifteen minutes of a sleek and sexy rhumba. Still, Banderas has a warm, ingratiating presence and can spout platitudes about dance with conviction; Alfre Woodard (Crooklyn, Desperate Housewives) has her usual charismatic authority as the school's hard-nosed principal; and the dance competition at the movie's end gives the movie the lift it's wanted for the previous hour and a half. --Bret Fetzer
Take the Lead Reviews:
"Look at Mr. Dulane, gettin his flirt on" 
2008-07-23 - This movie will want to make everyone go, and learn ballroom dancing. I love this movie, it great!!!!
I love Antonio Banderas!:)
2008-07-19 - I love dance films but Banderas does a great job as a charming dance teacher who helps iner city kids to show what they got. I reccomend this film it has a beat that will make you wanna move.:)
Take the Lead
2008-06-19 - I absolutely love this movie, my husband and I have watched it a million times already, the cast, story, and the music is just superb. It deserves an academy award.
I just wish in DVD format, we can go directly to the movie, rather than having to fast forward through several advertisements.
Love Pierre Dulaine, Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodwart and all the "Dungeoun Kids".
DVD is good condition.
Thank you.
Take The Lead
2008-03-26 - The movie was excellent! Each actor shows outstanding preparations for their roles in dancing and the blending of hop-hop and classical dancing is superb! I recommend this movie to everyone who loves dancing and great acting. My hat is of to Antonio Banderas, Ya Ya DaCosta and the rest of the actors!
Magical 
2008-02-29 - This is another movie where an adult finds a creative way to intervene in the lives of troubled inner-city youths to teach them dignity, respect, and a little ballroom dancing. Antonio Banderas did a fantastic job in this film with a great mix of meekness and toughness. The magical part was not necessarily the plot (although it was touching) but how Banderas found the $200 entry fee for each of the couples in the competition, plus dresses/tuxes for them, and how the authority figures do not call security to remove the interlopers at the cotillion nor at the competition when they hijack the sound system. At 2 hours long, its about 15 minutes too long, but is enjoyable overall.
