Line #16 Film/DancinItsOn


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2	''Dancin' It's On'' is a romance film directed and co-written by David Winters, starring Witney Carson and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp of ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' and ''Series/SoYouThinkYouCanDance'' fame respectively. The film was theatrically released in 2015.
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4	Jennifer August (Carson) is sent to spend the summer at her estranged father's hotel where she meets and falls in love with dishwasher Ken (Wespi-Tschopp). Things don't go smoothly for the couple as they face opposition from Jen's father who sets her up with snobbish bellboy Danny (Matt Marr) and a dance competition right around the corner. Take this plot and season it with lots and lots of dancing, and you have this movie.
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6	Compare ''Film/FromJustinToKelly''.
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8	!!Tropin': It's On:
9	* AdvertisedExtra: The black girl on one of the movie's covers would be this if she's the same person as the extra in the competition.
10	* AerithAndBob: Jennifer, Ken, Danny and ''Shotsy''.
11	* AlmightyJanitor: Danny is apparently a bellboy, yet he bullies fellow low-rung employee Ken, a dishwasher, telling him to "learn [his] place", and doesn't get in any trouble.
12	* AlwaysOnDuty: The Captain appears to work at the hotel door at all hours of the day and night, as well as emceeing the off-site dance competition.
13	* AmbiguousEnding: The film ends only with [[spoiler:Jen and Ken winning the competition, and Jen's mother giving Jen's father an embrace and a kiss in the audience. There is a lot left unexplained: what happens to Danny and Shotsy, whether Jen's father changes his views on his daughter's relationship, etc.]]
14	* AnimationBump: [[spoiler:Ken and Jenny's kiss]] has better video quality than the rest of the movie.
15	* AngryDance: As part of Ken's pissy attitude after angrily breaking up with Jen, he runs off, breaks into a bout of this and kicks a sunbed into the hotel pool in the process.
16	* AwkwardKiss: [[spoiler:Jen and Ken's climactic BigDamnKiss is interrupted by running commentary from random hotel guests watching them.]]
17	* BadDate: Jen's dad forces her to go on one with Danny. She doesn't expect to enjoy herself, and she's right: Their conversation is beyond awkward, even by this movie's standards, and he still goes for a kiss at the end!
18	* BigFancyHouse: Jen and her mother live in one and even have butlers. The interior of the house looks more like something out of a gothic horror movie than a cheesy teen musical.
19	* CharacterTics: The Captain's habit of executing random dance steps after or even during anything he says.
20	* DaintyLittleBalletDancers: Averted; both main actors are real-life ballet dancers, and ballet scenes in the film show both feminine and masculine routines.
21	* DanceOfDespair: One of the Captain's random dance moments takes place right after Jen and Ken have their argument. He ends his usually jaunty dance with a heavy sigh and dismayed shake of the head.
22	* DanceOff: Jen and Ken get into a flirtatious one when they first meet at a teen club.
23	* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: It's also ON!
24	* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Jen's father will not have her dating a dishwasher in his hotel. He wants her to go out with the head bellboy instead.
25	* DivorceIsTemporary: [[spoiler:Jen and Ken's victory at the competition makes the former's parents get back together.]]
26	* [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting Everybody Was Ballroom Dancing]]: Nearly every major character is a dancer.
27	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Captain is only ever known as the Captain.
28	* {{Flashmob}}: As Jen wanders around the city at night down in the dumps from her nasty breakup, she's greeted by a sudden crowd of street dancers. She joins them and instantly feels better.
29	* {{Foodfight}}: At one point on Ken and Jen's date, they visit an ice cream shop and start throwing ice cream at each other, prompting everyone in the shop to start hurling ice cream all over the place too.
30	* HellHotel: Okay, it's not ''supposed'' to be this, but the Hit Parade Hotel is full of people breaking into song and dance and all manner of performance art at any given moment, which would probably be terrifying--or at least incredibly annoying--to some.
31	* HongKongDub: Due to rampant poor ADR, dialogues often don't match the actors' lip movements.
32	* IceCreamKoan: What exactly does Hal mean by "you can play baseball, you can play tennis, you can even play football, but you can't play dance"?
33	* InformedAbility: Hal's dancing is treated as awe-inspiring by Ken and he becomes Ken and Shotsy's mentor, plus his actor David Winters was a respectable choreographer, but the dancing he shows on screen, which looks more like vague and indiscriminate limb flailing, says otherwise.
34	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Shotsy sadly accepts that Ken will never be hers and encourages him to make up with Jen.
35	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At first Ken writes Hal off at the {{Jerkass}} who makes him perform chores that have already been performed out of spite. Turns out he's a [[InformedAbility very talented choreographer]] who's still grieving for his son.
36	* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: An [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2598580/mediaviewer/rm402383616/ alternate cover]] features alongside the named characters a black girl who is either this or AdvertisedExtra if she's the nameless, dialogueless dancer in the climactic competition.
37	* MatingDance: Some of the dance routines are suggestive, but one performance in the competition where the shirtless male dancer is put on a leash and acts like the female dancer's pet takes the cake.
38	* TheMentor: Hal Sanders to Ken and Shotsy, and later [[spoiler:to him and Jennifer after Shotsy pairs up with Danny.]]
39	* MissedTheRecital: Subverted: Jen's dad nearly has to miss the dance competition due to a shareholders' meeting. [[spoiler:He manages to get there at the last minute.]]
40	* MrFanservice: Ken gets lots of opportunities to show off his well-built frame, even going {{shirtless\|Scene}} at times.
41	* MsFanservice: Shotsy wears increasingly low-cut tops in the hopes of attracting Ken's affection. [[ImStandingRightHere It doesn't work.]]
42	* MysteriousStranger: The Captain is a walking enigma; nothing is clear about him, not even his name or his actual profession (he's supposedly the hotel doorman, but he also hosts the dance contest). He's only a TokenBlackFriend who mysteriously and annoyingly pops up at regular intervals to act "wise" and "supportive".
43	* NoNameGiven: What the heck ''is'' the Captain's name?
44	* NoOSHACompliance: The hotel, where people are allowed to break into dancing and performance acts in risky places like the kitchen and the lobby, and no one seems to have a problem with this.
45	* OnlyOneName: Jennifer and Hal are the only full-named characters.
46	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Hal lost his son in Iraq, because of which he swears off dancing.]]
47	* PomPomGirl: Jenny is a cheerleader, as shown in the movie's beginning.
48	* RaceForYourLove: Ken, for Jen, following their SecondActBreakup.
49	* RecurringExtra: The mime. Seriously, what was the mime for?
50	* SceneryPorn: The film makes a point of showing off Panama City Beach's scenery and tourist attractions to the point of feeling like a tourism ad for the area at times.
51	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Jen feels no compunction about making a mess in the hotel corridor, since her dad owns the place.
52	* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Winning, particularly at the climactic dance competition, is "everything" to Danny and Shotsy. [[HeelFaceTurn And then they immediately decide]] [[DefeatMeansRespect Jen and Ken deserve to win.]]
53	* SpeaksInShoutOuts: The British receptionist who repeatedly quotes Shakespeare in his {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s.
54	-->2B or not 2B, that is the question. Enjoy your stay.
55	* SpontaneousChoreography: The film is nearly ''made of'' this, as characters ''constantly'' break into dance at the drop of a hat no matter the time and place.
56	* StockFootage: There are many shots of the cheering crowd during the dance contest that are clearly taken from other concerts or spring break events, which makes it stand out significantly.
57	* SweetTooth: Jen and Ken's all-day date starts with [[SweetheartSipping milkshakes]] and ends with ice cream.
58	* TokenBlackFriend: The Captain doesn't contribute much to the story aside from popping up on occasion to offer advice and encouragement to the heroes.
59	* TokenMinority: The Captain, the only recurring character who's not white.
60	* UnfortunateName: ''Shotsy'', seriously? Could be explained that it might be a nickname.
61	* UptownGirl: Jen, to Ken.
62	* VisitByDivorcedDad: Inverted: Jen goes to visit her father at the hotel he owns after several years with little contact.
63	* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: The Shakespeare-quoting receptionist [[CommonKnowledge once again]] makes the "wherefore art thou" blunder by uttering this line while flipping through the guestbook looking for a customer with the last name Romeo.
64	* YouKnowWhatYouDid: When Jen goes to tell Ken her father makes her go out with Danny, his reaction is to… get mad at her, as if she's cheating on him.
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