The life of a young teenager beautiful and talented girl named Alex Owens, who is a talented dancer and admired dancing, as she dreams of becoming a real dancer and joins the ballet school, has been changed completely when she has a chance to join her dream school by the help of her neighbor.
Virtually plotless, exceedingly thin on characterization and sociologically laughable, pic at least lives up to its title by offering an anthology of extraordinarily flashy dance numbers.
Jennifer Beals shouldn't feel bad. She is a natural talent, she is fresh and engaging here, and only needs to find an agent with a natural talent for turning down scripts.
This spirited rock musical about a young factory worker go-go dancer in Pittsburgh who aspires to be a ballerina is the best kind of adolescent fantasy: colorful, involving and full of leaping, prancing energy.