Honey 2: Gymnastics set to music

Director: Bille Woodruff
Cinema: Rainbow Town
Type of film: Dance mania
Length of film: 110 minutes
Age restriction: Parental guidance advised.

Set in New York City, with multiple scenes of my home town’s bursting energy, the film “Honey 2” was actually shot in Hollywood. The only place in America where one can easily gather the several hundred gymnasts (pardon me: dancers) who risk life and limb as they contort to equally jumpy music.
With the filmmakers having set out to appeal to that segment of the American and overseas audience who dote on the visual appeal engendered by the sight of 20 (or 50) loose-limbed jivers defying the laws of gravity.

The film’s opening scenes reveal the juvenile detention facilities in the Brooklyn segment of New York where Maria (Katseems (isn’t that lucky for moviemakers) that juvenile “bad-ones” these days are all gifted footwise.
At this point the film turns goody-goody and tugs at the heartstrings. Martha Daniels, a local dance instructor, has just opened a dance-school facility in memory of her tragically killed teen-age daughter, Honey. In response to her sadness over the loss of her daughter, she convinces the authorities to release Maria into her care.

It is from this point on that the film devotes itself entirely to the highly-skilled gymnastics that practitioners want us to think of as “dancing”.
As jealousy has for many years been considered almost essential in a film about teenagers, we have, in this fill, a tug-of-war between two boys who vie for Maria’s favour and her acceptance as dance partner.
Louie, the boy with whom she got into the trouble that led to the detention centre, seeks her return to him with the promise that bad-boy behaviour will no longer recur.

Competing with Brandon, who comes from an upper-class family, attends a local college, hoping that his family will ultimately accept his desire to be a dancer.
As will not in the least surprise the present-day film-goer, Louise, on the one hand, and Brandon on the other, is each a member of a separate dance group, which are about to compete with each other for a reward

which includes the making of a Hollywood film about this form of gymnastics.
The film “Honey 2” can only be recommended to those who will happily sit through 110 minutes of “gymnastics set to music.”