Review of Honey (2003) by Harry W — 06 Dec 2013

As Honey dresses Jessica Alba up in a tanktop and has her dance enough to bouncer her upper body around enough, it can be safe to assume that Honey's sole source of praise will come from elements of visual appeal, by which I mean Jessica Alba's sex appeal.

That's essentially a safe assumption because as predicted Honey is merely another generic dance flick which holds nothing but skin deep visual appeal to its viewers. It has no interesting story which it clearly borrows from Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo only without being solely focused on breakdancing. For the right viewer, Honey would be almost inspiring at best. Almost. Emphasis on that word.

Honey contains a decent soundtrack, some minorly uplifting dance numbers and an attractive lead from Jessica Alba, but aside from that there is nothing much more to appeal. I mean, its well filmed and well editied and such, but its plot and script and generic and bland, as is its lead Jessica Alba. Like I said, she?s attractive and all, and she can dance well but her line delivery is like some kind of 16 year old girl babysitting, convincing the child she is watching to have fun and telling the parents that she is good at her job. There is no real feel that she is anything more than just another actress told to look good and dance for the cameras, and had she not starred in more high-profile films that?s exactly what she would have become. Honey depicts largely what Jessica Alba is all about, for better or for worse.

David Moscow does not in the slightest manage to convince me that he is in fact a music video director. I could believe that he thinks he is, but that is in no way good enough to constitute casting him.

So there is nothing to impress in terms of casting, and the entirety of Honey is shallow with lacklustre writing and a poor directional effort from Bille Woodruff who clearly had learned no talents beyond music videos and should no longer bother trying.