not as good as all the hype

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

I came across "Dance Academy" years too late. I'm already in my thirties but I know that I would have loved every single episode of this Australian dance series when I was a teenager. There's everything in it you need: authentic characters, lots of dancing, lots of romance, a bit of drama, a bit of tragedy... the perfect mixture! Tara and her friends are highly professional dancers but they are teenagers coming of age at the same time. And none of them is a cliché. I don't like children or teenage movies that don't take children or teenagers seriously. "Dance Academy" does. It's been some time but I still remember what it felt like back than and the series feels just the same! It's so sad it ended after season three and the last season is even much shorter than the other two. I read that there might be a spin-off movie, I do so much hope there will be one!!

Horrible drama. Every one of the main characters pretty much have a relationship with every other person of the opposite sex in the show. Which is disturbing and gross. So obvious that the story is being dragged and dragged - a 6 year old could think of a better plot than this. Complete waste of time. I thought it would get better when i first started watching it but it was so extremely repetitive that i quit in the middle of season 2. I felt that the lead actor who plays Tara didn't even seem to know acting very well. In terms of the characters my favorite was that of Kat. Abigail was another interesting character.

Looking at a lot of trashy shows such as Big Time Rush, H2O: Just add Water, you name it, this one really stands out.The characters have stories and they develop, they are growing mature and there are to some extend conflicts which are rarely seen in shows for kids and teenagers -- for instance when characters are homosexual. The latter, which is another very good thing, is dealt with in an absolutely natural eat. No over dramatization.I also like that, even though there is a leading part and kind of narrator, different episodes focus on different characters to a major extend.What makes me not voting 10 stars is, that real life is often really disastrous and devastating -- something missing in the show.

I really liked this series and I hope there's more to come. My daughter does a mean tap, is on point, and loves lyrical and modern. I thought it was cool seeing the intense training and the true competitive nature of it all. Seeing Tara's struggles and Abigail's different struggles were interesting to me. Also watch Kat vie for her mother's real support was something I paid attention to as a mother. I'm no ballerina, so I have no shadow over my daughter. I just love seeing her performances during recitals and seeing how much she just taps outside of her class without even being aware of it. She also uses our railing for her stretching and will work her toe shoes frequently as well.So even though there was some sort of closure for Tara's character at the end of season 2, so many new things popped up at the end that I would be very disappointed to find that there is no more to the show.