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This is appalling.
I’m not talking about the movie, I’m talking about the comments of the ignorant reactionaries who are totally dissing the movie, screaming about “pedos!” and claiming it’s “child porn” and how “disgusting” it was to be showing kids (near teens) dancing so very “seductively”—as part of a dance competition.

It’s especially dismaying when (except for lolyh who said she(?) watched a few short pieces (Did you really? How much?) no one has actually watched the damned thing!!

Are you ALL up in arms and ready to grab your torches and pitchforks BECAUSE OF A RUMOR!? And because of what you IMAGINE that might be there?

Y’know, sometimes, what’s in your fevered imaginations (and so, in your hearts) is a lot more obscene than what’s actually going on in reality.

I saw the post for this film when it 1st came out and passed it by, uninterested. But after all the rabidly hyperbolic posts attacking it I felt obligated. I just finished checking the movie out. The WHOLE thing, not just bits and pieces. I was not offended. Or titillated.

It certainly does NOT need or deserve a “May contain adult material” warning on it. In fact, I think the director aimed it specifically at the young audience as a learning and growth tool to help with coping with the modern pressures of being a teen and surviving jr. high.

This film could easily have passed as a modern version of those after school specials that used to be on mainstream TV.
I’ve seen considerably worse exhibitionism and lewdness from cheerleaders on jr. high school basketball courts and football fields.

If ANY ONE of those who posted those offensive comments had actually bothered to stifle their imagined outrage and to watch it, they would have seen an ok (but not great) coming of age story about a new kid from a different culture trying to fit in at her new school. It had a fairly decent “tough lessons are well taught lessons” type message at the end.
But of course you totally missed what could have been a valuable learning and growth experience, both for you and your kids. But especially for you.