Strictly Ballroom (1992)

• Year: 1992
• Released: 12 Feb 1993
• Country: Australia, United Kingdom
• Adwords: Won 3 BAFTA 19 wins & 18 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105488/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/strictly_ballroom
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/strictly-ballroom
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Spanish
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
• Runtime: 94 min
• Writer: Baz Luhrmann, Andrew Bovell, Craig Pearce
• Director: Baz Luhrmann
• Cast: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter
• Keywords: parent child relationship, based on play or musical, husband wife relationship, flashback, transformation,

	7.2/10
	72/100

Strictly Ballroom Storyline

Scott Hastings is a champion caliber ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing “his own steps”. Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an ugly duckly who has the audacity to ask to be Scott’s partner after his unorthodox style causes his regular partner to dance out of his life. Together, these two misfits try to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championships and show the Ballroom Confederation that they are wrong when they say, “there are no new steps!”

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Status Quo Vadis…

I wasn’t sure I was going to like this so imagine my surprise when I found out that I absolutely loved it! Contains and comprises all the right ingredients, perfectly proportioned, blended and mixed to make you laugh, cry, smile and grimace. Slip on your dancing shoes, glide onto the dance floor and free yourself for ninety minutes of antipodean ballroom brilliance.

physical communication

Many Australian movies use the theme of communication issues (think “Walkabout”, “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, “Crocodile Dundee”). Some people might question whether or not “Strictly Ballroom” belongs in that group, but I would say that it does. You see, dancing is a form of physical communication, and so the characters here get to know each other that way.

But even ignoring that, it’s a pretty fascinating movie. Baz Luhrmann was certainly showing the sorts of things that he would later bring to “Romeo + Juliet” and “Moulin Rouge!”.

Starring Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Barry Otto and Gia Carides.

broad comedy, formulaic story

Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio) is tapped to be the next champion (at least by his mother) when the reigning champs Ken Railings and Tina Sparkle box in Scott and his partner Liz Holt (Gia Carides). Scott starts doing flamboyant crowd-pleasing steps to get out of the corner but it’s not Strictly Ballroom. Australian Dance Federation President Barry Fife (Bill Hunter) is not pleased and Scott loses. Liz leaves Scott to join Ken Railings. Scott’s mother Shirley is the ballroom dance instructor, and his meek father Doug does the maintenance at the studio. Frumpy beginner Fran (Tara Morice) loves Scott’s new dance moves. While they try out new partners for Scott, he is practicing with Fran.

Baz Luhrmann is doing a surreal spoof of a dance movie with some very broad almost slapstick comedy. There is some joy and fun laughing at the characters. The only problem is the formulaic story. It is clawing and almost uncomfortable in its unnerving following. As usual, the frumpy girl is wearing glasses. All she needs is to take them off and have a make-over. The lead guy is a bit too stiff and too serious. Overall, the broad strokes do have some fun and mostly leaves a smile on my face. The formula does get a little tiresome.