Plot wise, the film felt unfinished. It had themes about achieving your dreams and doing what you love even if it doesn't make you money but only vague notions of plot. It doesn't lack a plot so much as every scene feels just a little bit random. Some scenes convey themes. Some have a linear quality, but ultimately there's a lot of details missing to make the scenes connect. Honey is a bartender/record shop worker/community center dance instructor. She gets her big break because some music video producer sees a security cam of her dancing at the club she works at (how did he get that? Do you see what I mean by missing details?) and offers her a job dancing in a music video. She manages to become a choreographer nearly immediately. These scenes are interspersed with scenes of Honey hanging out with local kids and starting a romance with a barber shop owner. Honey is very concerned with being real and down with the street in spite of the fact that her parents clearly pay her rent. The movie has a kind of midpoint when the music video producer tries to sleep with her and she says no so he ruins her career. She then refocuses her efforts on opening a new dance studio in between a plot about Lil Romeo getting arrested and released from jail. The end has Honey holding a dance performance to raise money for the studio while Missy Elliot gets out of a limo in front of the building, looking for her to choreograph her next video. Her success is shown over the credits with the implication that she choreographed a music video for a girl group called Blaque that only existed in the early 2000s.
This movie was an interesting time capsule of the early 2000s in terms of music and fashion, but it didn't really give us many laughs. We poked some fun at it and got a bit of a chuckle out of the video producer's very mature reaction to rejection, but it wasn't really worth your time.
Spoon Rating: 2
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