I love ballet movies...I guess, even bad ballet movies. The Red Shoes this is not. Choppy, unnecessarily confusing, leaving you wondering about one aspect (I won't spoil it) and only explaining it as an afterthought in a scene an hour later.
It was wholly unnecessary to skip back and forth so many times leaving numerous and distracting questions. The characters were periodically unrealistic, moving once again from amazingly kind to cutthroat in a matter of minutes.
It was also rather bizarre to go from English subtitles most of the time to a smattering of spoken, broken English--which often required closed captioning to understand...but you can't do that, as then you'll have subtitles times two! Hmmmm!
That said, I loved the ending! Triumphant and touching. I wouldn't say it was worth the wait but at least the movie finally, FINALLY had a point.
It was wholly unnecessary to skip back and forth so many times leaving numerous and distracting questions. The characters were periodically unrealistic, moving once again from amazingly kind to cutthroat in a matter of minutes.
It was also rather bizarre to go from English subtitles most of the time to a smattering of spoken, broken English--which often required closed captioning to understand...but you can't do that, as then you'll have subtitles times two! Hmmmm!
That said, I loved the ending! Triumphant and touching. I wouldn't say it was worth the wait but at least the movie finally, FINALLY had a point.