Princess Nisa is experiencing a harsh experience by searching for a scheme in which to fight the bloc that threatens her home in the Brazilian rain forest. Nisa decided to move to Los Angeles, where she would meet a young man who loved to dance and both cooperated in a different context. Both decided to enter the lambada competition where Nisa faces a new life with this young man.
A musical without the spark of classics like Flashdance or Fame.
New York Times
August 30, 2004
Its dance sequences are barely sexier than a bowling tournament. But connoisseurs of clunky dialogue and shameless continuity lapses should look no further.
What's a nubile young monarch to do? Why, head to the States and school the nature-hating, money-grubbing Yanks with some hearty forbidden dancing, of course!
The story relies on one absurd coincidence after another, the acting is pedestrian, and the screenplay is often unintentionally laughable. However, although overlong, the film is consistently entertaining.
A film that defies all sense of merit by intercutting an endless array of pelvis gyrations and Latin-inspired grooves with a tone so inconsistent and downtrodden that it left me wincing in discomfort.
