Review of Take the Lead (2006) by Missy W — 07 May 2012

(Reviewed by Juanka Peña) Pierre Dulaine (Antonio Banderas) is a high-school teacher and a very experienced ballroom dancer. He is in charge of a group of conflictive students. Dulaine will try to encourage his students through dance to obtain the discipline, motivation and also to set free their unknow skills.

Dulaine offers his services to help the kinds from the Bronx. However, his task will be harder than expected, when Principal Augustine James (Alfre Woodard) gives Dulaine a difficult assignment: He will be dealing with all the detention-class kids known as troublemakers and underachievers.

Of course, when they discover that Pierre will try to teach them to dance ballroom style, they will react learn that Dulaine intends to teach them how to dance in the classic style, they will react showing their dissapointment and rejection to the teacher's idea.

Dulaine will demonstrate his talent in front of the class which will end up convincing them how amazing it could be learning to dance like that. . The kids will start to love dancing and they will add their own moves who will be brought from hip-hop and urban style creating a very unusual but attactive way to interpret ballroom.

Dulaine will try to motivate the kids by showing them that they can find their way out of the ghetto by following their own dreams and working really hard. It is inspired in a true-life story.