Beneath Bruce Garrett's under-confident, overweight exterior, the passionate heart of a salsa king lies dormant. Now, one woman is about to reignite his Latin fire.Beneath Bruce Garrett's under-confident, overweight exterior, the passionate heart of a salsa king lies dormant. Now, one woman is about to reignite his Latin fire.Beneath Bruce Garrett's under-confident, overweight exterior, the passionate heart of a salsa king lies dormant. Now, one woman is about to reignite his Latin fire.
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- TriviaIn the scene were Bruce (Nick Frost) and Drew (Chris O'Dowd) are doing the dance-off in the parking garage, a car beeps to pass by, and in the car is Simon Pegg, Frost's frequent co-star from Spaced (1999), the Cornetto Trilogy and Paul (2011) (amongst others), and O'Dowd's from How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008).
- GoofsNick Frosts character shaves his whole chest in one scene, but chest hair is seen to be poking out of his shirt several times through the rest of the film.
- Crazy creditsSeveral characters appear in newspaper clippings in the end credits, including Chris O'Dowds character in his new job.
- SoundtracksI Believe In Miracles (Original Havana Mix)
Written by Mark Capanny, Bobby Taylor
Produced and Arranged by Claudio Passavanti
Performed by Sunlightsquare
Published by Mary Mar\\Gemini Songs
Courtesy of Sunlightsquare Records Ltd
Featured review
The movie was a relatively simple movie all about self-confidence and putting yourself out there. Thats pretty standard fare, but...
The cast are excellent. Most of the people in the movie that dance are actors rather than dancers, unlike movies like "Step up", and it shows with characters like Bejan. He's hilarious, extremely camp and actually quite credible as someone you'd likely see on a salsa dance floor.
Unlike some other reviewers, I am a long way from 50, but I do actually know a little bit about salsa. This movie represents parts of the salsa scene that people not in it don't know about. It shows various styles of salsa (rueda, on-1, on-1 threesomes and carnival), it shows dance style similar to salsa & enjoyed by many on the salsa scene (some shots looked like kizomba or bachata {hard to tell with the bad framing of the shots}, and there was Bejan telling people doing aerobic dance {zumba} to go back to their leisure centres). The movie does have quite a lot of capoeira-inspired dancing, and a lot of dancing that you'd only expect professional dance performers to even come close to attempting (loads of lifts)
Sound: The movie pretty much sounded as it should have, but there was one particularly irritating oversight. The guy(s) who did the soundtrack really didn't worry about matching the on-screen dancing to the musical beat. It made the dancers look like they were about 2 and a half beats off, just horrible.
Its definitely worth watching.
The cast are excellent. Most of the people in the movie that dance are actors rather than dancers, unlike movies like "Step up", and it shows with characters like Bejan. He's hilarious, extremely camp and actually quite credible as someone you'd likely see on a salsa dance floor.
Unlike some other reviewers, I am a long way from 50, but I do actually know a little bit about salsa. This movie represents parts of the salsa scene that people not in it don't know about. It shows various styles of salsa (rueda, on-1, on-1 threesomes and carnival), it shows dance style similar to salsa & enjoyed by many on the salsa scene (some shots looked like kizomba or bachata {hard to tell with the bad framing of the shots}, and there was Bejan telling people doing aerobic dance {zumba} to go back to their leisure centres). The movie does have quite a lot of capoeira-inspired dancing, and a lot of dancing that you'd only expect professional dance performers to even come close to attempting (loads of lifts)
Sound: The movie pretty much sounded as it should have, but there was one particularly irritating oversight. The guy(s) who did the soundtrack really didn't worry about matching the on-screen dancing to the musical beat. It made the dancers look like they were about 2 and a half beats off, just horrible.
Its definitely worth watching.
- RoyalSmegHead
- Feb 15, 2014
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Vũ Điệu Cuba Cuồng Nhiệt
- Filming locations
- Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, England, UK(Exterior of dance club)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $92,384
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $57,105
- Apr 13, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $5,645,773
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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