Mad Hot Ballroom

This film is sensational. I have seen it over 25 times and every time I see it it's like seeing it for the first time. These young people are terrific and I wish there was some way to keep up with... Full review

A wonderful movie about kids---great conversations about all kinds of things. At the same time, these kids are learning to dance. It's as inspiring as any movie I've seen but funnier and more human. Fun to watch, thoughtful, not too sweet,... Full review

Hay, my name is Daniel. I'm from PS 144 and all of my friend play in this movie. I just saw the movie and I'm telling you, this is a great movie! The acting wasen't so good..... but all the rest... Full review

Hay, my name is Daniel. I'm from PS 144 and all of my friend play in this movie. I just saw the movie and I'm telling you, this is a great movie! The acting wasen't so good..... but all the rest... Full review

i loved this movie it so nice it has so much inspiration and it is a latin movie u know latinaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzx all dayzzzzzzzzxxx... Full review

I had high hopes walking into "Mad Hot Ballroom." I thought it would be another well made documentary about cute kids, like "Spellbound." I was only right about the cute kids. The direction and editing of this movie is disastrous...and the... Full review

This is ordinary life in New York City where class, wealth, poverty and culture intersects at a fundamental level of our humanity - our dreams. Those in the film are not actors, but their facial expressions are genuine and reveal a... Full review

This is ordinary life in New York City where class, wealth, poverty and culture intersects at a fundamental level of our humanity - our dreams. Those in the film are not actors, but their facial expressions are genuine and reveal a... Full review

This was a really bad movie I slept through the whole thing. I would not even buy it if it were free.... Full review

What a wonderful movie. I laughed, cried, was "WOW"ed all the way through... I would love to know where & what all the "Indigo's team" are doing now with their lives..... Full review

Mad Hot Ballroom is an outrageously enjoyable movie.....This is a joyous film.....$13.00 This charming documentary has been scooping up audience awards at festivals around the globe.....Arguably the film's highlight is when he performs the rumba in front of a rapturous audience..... ... Full Review

As long as it's put together in a solid film, this could be really great. That aside, the story is not without its quirks -- this girl has a hidden passion for soap eating and a habit for knocking on wood, but maybe that will come together in a charming manner. ... Full Review

A poignant film shouldn't affect its audience in this way. Unfortunately, the "sleeper hit" of the summer, as the film has been dubbed, only bears a resemblance to the former description (re:sleeper). ... Full Review

Mad Hot Ballroom, a delightful documentary, follows three groups of public school fifth graders from New York city's Washington Heights, Tribeca....Mad Hot allows the viewer to soak in the story without an intrusive narrative voice-over nudging your thinking in a particular direction.....Graciously, Mad Hot Ballroom doesn't grandstand to make its point.....inducing nausea through forced syrupy sweet scenes.....Rather, the camera captures poignant moments such as when two girls talk about how the man of thei ... Full Review

Mad Hot Ballroom, a delightful documentary, follows three groups of public school fifth graders from New York city's Washington Heights, Tribeca....Mad Hot allows the viewer to soak in the story without an intrusive narrative voice-over nudging your thinking in a particular direction.....Graciously, Mad Hot Ballroom doesn't grandstand to make its point.....inducing nausea through forced syrupy sweet scenes.....Rather, the camera captures poignant moments such as when two girls talk about how the man of thei ... Full Review

ST. LOUIS - "Oh, my gosh!" The sixth-graders gasped, hands over their mouths. They returned to their classroom Thursday morning to find Pierre Dulaine, the creator of the ballroom dance program the students had enjoyed last spring and whose work... ... Full Article

Documentary. Directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine. (PG-13. 105 minutes. At San Francisco's Lumiere 3 and Berkeley's Shattuck 10.) The elevator pitch for this beautifully filmed documentary by directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine sounds like a... ... Full Article

I vaguely remember a red bandanna and a straw cowboy hat. Unfortunately, I vividly recall stepping on numerous toes during botched do-si-dos. The New York kids featured in the documentary "Mad Hot Ballroom" will one day have faded memories of... ... Full Article

Manda Bala also develops metaphors and then bludgeons the audience with them. The film opens in a frog farm with vats of teeming fist-sized frogs all piled in a heap. ... Full Article

We viewed a few of the films from the Africa Stories series and attended a fraction of a panel discussion about films about Africa. (We would have stayed for the whole thing, but somehow people talking on screen is so... ... Full Article

by MovieMaker Staff | Published January 7, 2007 Although the Spanish and Latin cultures have infused and enriched the roots of this country since its inception, their presence in mainstream American media is a fairly new development. ... Full Article