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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 28879
Released: December 16, 2003 |
| Our Price: $9.92 |
| Used Price: $7.88 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 12/16/2003 Run time: 54 minutes Rating: Nr
Description of Paula Abdul's Get Up and Dance!:
Paula Abdul's fans will really have fun with this 45-minute, high-energy dance workout. Even the warm-up is energetic and jazzy. Abdul teaches two dance routines. She introduces a 16-count pattern slowed down, then speeds it up until you're up to tempo, adding on until you've got a routine. Don't expect teaching expertise from Abdul--she cues the moves, but never explains how to do what she's demonstrating. Just watch and follow. You may need to pause this video a lot at first to learn the moves--she doesn't repeat the slowed-down moves enough to catch them--but after you get them, it becomes pure fun. She is assisted by two of her tour dancers and a crowded class of what she calls "ordinary people," though they're mostly young, good-looking, and very fit. The production is colorful and flashy. The constantly changing camera angles are distracting and sometimes annoying, because they hinder you from watching the feet to learn the moves. You'll enjoy the playful cool-down to Village People's "YMCA," led by the males in the class. An abdominal segment and stretches finish the workout. Coordination and rhythm required. --Joan Price
Paula Abdul's Get Up and Dance! Reviews:
Intense & FUN! 
2009-07-22 - I have had this workout for years, and absolutely LOVE it! However, it was extremely frustrating at first--just like some of the other reviews I had to learn it little by little, but I still got a great workout. It is definitely not for a beginner (unless you take breaks). You will be sweating the entire way through. It is so much fun, and she's very encouraging. She really creates a happy, relaxed atmosphere, and she really wants us to have fun with it. So in the beginning when I couldn't master all the moves, sometimes I would just make up my own dance and have fun until the next segment started.
The instruction is very systematic. You learn several dance steps (I can't remember offhand exactly how many), and with each three steps that you learn, she shows you how to combine them before moving on to the next three. So you practice the steps individually and combined with other steps. Then you do the entire routine twice after learning all the steps. The ab workout at the end is really intense, too. My favorite part is the YMCA cooldown.
I LOVE THIS WORKOUT, and I highly recommend it for anyone who loves to dance.
Fun for parents and kids to do together
2009-06-26 - How many things can you do for fun and get fit together? The dance moves are still ones your kids and teens can use today when they dance at parties, and they were excited to try it because they know Paula from AI.
never got it 
2009-06-16 - I have yet to get this item, emailed and no answer!! would not even give 1 star
Awesome Workout 
2009-06-03 - Paula's Dance DVD is awesome. Admittedly it does take a few times of practice to get it down pat. Once I got stressed from rewinding and trying to figure out each and every step I just wanted to give up. I always tell my 4 yr old son he can do anything as long as he practice. I want him to see me working hard to accomplish those little things that seem immpossible. Anyhoo after trying and retrying the steps I decided to stop worrying about the moves and just have fun. Do your own thing and when you can incorporate Paula's moves into yours. Eventually you start picking up Paula's moves along with a few cool steps of your own. Don't rush it or you'll get tired of it. Just GET UP & DANCE & HAVE LOTS OF FUN!!!
Product in good condition 
2009-02-22 - The tape was in fine condition, but I like her other one much better. This one's almost impossible to follow, & I'm not THAT bad a dancer!
