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Strictly Ballroom Film Review
TITLE: Strictly Ballroom
STARRING: Paul Mercurio, Bill Hunter
RELEASED BY: M&A Film and Ronin Films
NOW AT: DAYUM COOL CINEMAZ
RATING: 7 out of 10

Paul Mercurio acting as Scott Hastings, the ballroom king won a lot of competitions and championships until the Dance Federation where he dances his own unconventional steps which lose the competition. His partner Gia Carides acting as Liz Holt then leaves him and eventually got a partner Tara Morice acting as Fran who is a beginner. Will they win the Pan Pacific’s championships by dancing the unconventional steps?
Fran, started with a bad appearance but after lifting up her bravery and getting Scott to dance with her, she pays more attention towards her appearance and have a big difference at the end of the film by just taking off the glasses, straightening her hair and putting some make up. With Rico (Fran’s dad) and Yayas’ help, Scott learns how to dance the traditional Paso Doble. After all the help from supportive peoples like Scott’s dad and Yaya, Scott fought back the criticism “You’re a gutless wonder” from Fran and decided to dance the unconventional steps at the Pan Pacifics Championship.
This film has a great start where the music increases its tempo and gives you a great excitement on what is coming up next and also having a red curtain at the start and begins in silhouette. It has some settings that are very suitable for the movie like some old houses and narrow streets etc. It is not only all about dancing, it also contain romance when Scott and Fran starts to have feeling towards each other and gives you a sense of anger when incidents happen during the competition.
Although it is a great film and most of the things are very enjoyable but the quality of the movie has lowered down the rating by a bit where it is not very well filmed and may affect your mood of watching it. It also gets dull when a lot of the scenes are about continuous dancing.
The actors and actresses had good appearance and

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