: Honey
This was a huge flop in the theatres, so it intrigued me. I’m always curious why films fail. Actually, this wasn’t as bad as I expected. Like so many films, it was badly promoted and attracted the wrong audience. First, the title (the name of the main female character) gave a salacious impression that the film doesn’t live up to at all. While it sounded all sexy and exotic, the film’s a simple, rather familiar story about a poor girl strugging for success. In this case, it’s in hip-hop dancing and choreography. When Honey gets her big break she neglects her old friends, then discovers who her true friends are and learns a Big Lesson. Yeah, predictable, but still satisfying, like watching a sports film and having the “good” team win in the final seconds. Unfortunately, you really have to be into hip-hop dancing to want to endure all the boring dance sequences (fast forward works well). Not as terrible as you might have thought, this movie’s biggest flaw is simply it’s lack of originality. This is all stuff we’ve seen a thousand times before and dressing it up in different clothes doesn’t change that.
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