Make Your Move (film)

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Make Your Move
Make Your Move 3D.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Duane Adler
Written byDuane Adler
Based on Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Produced by Robert W. Cort
Lee Soo-man
Eric Hetzel
Patricia Chun
Starring BoA Kwon
Derek Hough
Will Yun Lee
Wesley Jonathan
Izabella Miko
Jefferson Brown
Cinematography Gregory Middleton
Edited byMelissa Kent
Music by Michael Corcoran
Production
companies
Robert Cort Productions
SM Entertainment
Distributed by High Top Releasing (North America)
CJ Entertainment (South Korea)
Release dates
  • October 17, 2013 (2013-10-17)(Hong Kong)
  • April 17, 2014 (2014-04-17)(South Korea)
  • April 18, 2014 (2014-04-18)(United States)
CountriesUnited States
South Korea
LanguagesEnglish
Korean
Japanese
Box office$1 million [1]

Make Your Move (formerly called Cobu 3D, also known as Make Your Move 3D), is a 2013 independent dance film starring K-pop singer BoA and ballroom dancer Derek Hough. The film was directed by Duane Adler, who wrote the script for Save the Last Dance (2001) and Step Up (2006). [2] Hough took season twelve off of the show Dancing with the Stars to star in the film, which was shot in New York City and Toronto during the spring of 2011. [3] [4] Aside from the lead stars, singer Yunho from TVXQ has a cameo appearance. [5] The film was choreographed by Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, Yako Miyamoto, and Nick Gonzalez. [6] [7]

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A preview of the film was shown at KCON 2012, a Korean entertainment convention, in Irvine, California. Songs from the movie's soundtrack were played at the convention as well including three by the groups Girls' Generation, F(x) and TVXQ. [8]

The film was released in 2013. [9] According to IMDb, it was released in Norway, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark in the summer. [10] It was released in the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, and the United States in 2014.

Cast

Reception

Make Your Move has received mixed reviews from critics. As of June 2020, the film holds a 38% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 16 reviews with an average rating of 4.76/10. [11] Metacritic calculated a score of 40 out of 100 based on 9 reviews, which signifies mixed or average reviews. [12]

Sara Stewart of the New York Post gave the film one out of four stars, saying "The dancing's fine here, but there's little else to distinguish Make Your Move, an entirely generic drama in which two characters actually say to one another, 'What if this doesn't work?' 'It has to.' It doesn't." [13]

Inkoo Kang of the Los Angeles Times said "[Make Your Move]'s core dance styles are a wonderfully frenetic fusion of tap and hip-hop and a truly novel blend of Japanese taiko drumming and K-pop girl-group choreography. Whenever actor Derek Hough and BoA stop leaping and twirling, though, Make Your Move is an underwritten mess." [14]

Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter said "Undemanding young audiences will hardly mind the one-note characterizations, formulaic storyline and banal dialogue even as they'll relate to the frequent nods to text messaging and YouTube videos gone viral... Hough's dancing is far more impressive than his acting, and BoA, despite her perky sexiness, is an even less compelling screen presence. But they certainly move well together, and that's pretty much all that matters here..." [15]

Stephanie Merry of The Washington Post said "Although the bit of bedroom footwork was more laugh-inducing than anything, some of the dancing really is spectacular. Scenes from the competing clubs include impressive choreography and gravity-defying moves. If only the poorly delivered, trite dialogue and predictable plot aimed as high." [16]

Soundtrack

SongArtistDuration
Light Up This CityCandy Coated Killahz3:59
Say Yes Jessica, Krystal & Kris 3:58
Let Me InMichael Corcoran/ Derek Hough2:37
You Found MeShannon LaBrie4:27
Cobu Love Theme / Static InvasionThe Outfit & Tasha "Dash" Schumann4:22
Dance to the Drummers BeatHerman Kelly3:31
Runnin on Empty TVXQ 3:34
The Road (Finer Things)NOLA Fam & Nicky Da B 3:17
Fall For YouStephen Gordon4:07
Nu ABO f(x) 3:43
Simple SimonOn Fire Music3:13
Cheap Creeper Girls' Generation 3:01
Catching Shadows Felicia Barton 3:54
Now We KnowThe Outfit4:38
Breathing LoveMelodye Perry5:13
Trap Henry Lau (Super Junior-M)3:46

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