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Shall We Dance?
Miramax Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some sexual references and brief language
Starring
Richard Gere,
Jennifer Lopez,
Susan Sarandon,
Stanley Tucci,
Bobby Cannavale,
Anita Gillette, Lisa Ann Walter,
Omar Miller, Richard Jenkins,
and
Nick Cannon
A workaholic lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected twirl when he follows a beautiful woman to a Chicago dance studio and becomes a clandestine ballroom dance competitor. (Miramax)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Musical
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Audrey Wells
Masayuki Suo (1997 screenplay)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Peter Chelsom
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 1, 2005
Video: February 1, 2005
Theatrical: October 15, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
106 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The new film compensates with Gere's wry performance as a man who lacks for nothing material but hungers for something spiritual. Even better is Stanley Tucci's delirious turn as Gere's balding, button-down colleague.

75
Premiere
Peter Debruge
This is Geres movie, and Sarandon and Lopez graciously let him dance away with it.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
A warm-hearted and understated entertainment that's blissfully free of the heavy-handed crudity and other elements that have ravaged 21st-century Hollywood comedy.

75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Gere is a pleasure, smiling and spinning and high-fiving his two classmates -- played by Bobby Cannavale and Omar Miller -- and the movie is happy and extremely likable.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Conventional as it may be, Shall We Dance? offers genuine delights. The fact that Paulina is uninterested in romance with John comes as sort of a relief, freeing the story to be about something other than the inexorable collision of their genitals.

75
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
It's an intelligent, funny, mature comedy that wears its heart on its sleeve and makes you care about the inner lives of ridiculously privileged human beings.

70
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
As glossy and overproduced as the thing is, it's a GOOD Big Stupid American movie.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A sleek Hollywood crowd-pleaser, more movie than art film, but its makers have wisely stuck not only to the spirit but often even to the letter of the original.

67
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
When it works, Shall We Dance? has a way of sweeping you off your feet.

63
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Goes too far in its slapstick efforts to please mainstream audiences, but there's no denying the genuine appeal of -- and I can't believe I'm actually writing this -- Richard Gere and ballroom dancing.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
I walked out of the original Shall We Dance? with a silly grin on my face. I left this one shaking my head, wondering where it had all gone wrong.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The movie tries hard to duplicate the original's mood and story, but, like Gere or Lopez, is too much of a visual knockout to rope us in.

60
Variety
Todd McCarthy
An unabashedly old-fashioned entertainment loaded with traditional dancing and music.

60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
An old- fashioned feel-good fantasy that piles on the euphoria.

60
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
Only Lopez, the film's ostensible star, seems to be struggling; she's a lovely dancer, but the only reason Lopez's expressionless performance isn't this sweet picture's downfall is that the script makes so few demands on her.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Considering the talent on both sides of the camera and a story that worked beautifully the first time around, Shall We Dance? should have been a lot better than OK.

50
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
The movie feels choppy and rhythmless. And he's (Chelsom) rather hopeless at dance sequences.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The warm performances give the film momentum, but writer Audrey Wells and director Peter Chelsom (who chops dance sequences clumsily) often stumble.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The movie never gives its heart freely and honestly to the satiny whirl of post-"Chicago" showbiz spectacle it so clearly wants to be.

50
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Runs out of breath and collapses into a heap of feel-good endings that turn a soaring feeling into a sinking one. But by then, the audience that adores it will forgive it its sins.

50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Shall We Dance?, which roams all over the emotional map without landing anywhere, is an unwieldy mess that gives every impression of having been made under a mandate to fill the Miramax crowd-pleaser slot.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Chelsom has transformed a low-key charmer into an overblown shtick-com whose idea of restraint only extends to forgoing wacky sound effects, a laugh track, and amplified rim-shots every time a character delivers a wisecrack.

40
Village Voice
David Ng
While Suo's original was hardly a masterpiece, it featured a subtle performance from Koji Yakusho. Gere doesn't even compare, playing the part of a despondent lawyer with the empathy of a mannequin.

40
Washington Post
Jen Chaney
Occasionally charming but ultimately forgettable bit of fox-trot fluff.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Even those who have never been exposed to the considerable charms of the Masayuki Suo original will likely find Peter Chelsom's all-American version of Shall We Dance? to be a dishearteningly sullen, lead-footed misstep.

40
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Manages to transplant the action to Chicago without completely ruining it, though the emotional impact is largely deflated by the change in cultures.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
This is a "What were they thinking?"-size disaster, with the wrong actors in the wrong roles in a project that had no reason to be remade in the USA.

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Now, forcibly deported to Chicago and peopled with American stars, the same story is huffed and puffed and squeezed into an entirely different cultural context. Guess what? Sayonara sushi, hello turkey.

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Do yourself a favor and rent the 1996 original from Japan instead.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A remarkably ill-advised remake.
25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The low point of the new Shall We Dance comes when Miss Paulina finally confesses why she's so sad.

25
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Falls flat, with more "sound design" than delicious music, more slick film editing than graceful ballroom gliding.

25
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
What's left is a lot of strenuous playacting when what's called for is the finesse of the Japanese original. Skip this stub-toed substitute.


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