By Mari Pizzini<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While quarantine has us all \u201cworking it\u201d from home, Netflix released a new dance-oriented movie called Work It on August 7, 2020. The 93 minute movie follows high school senior Quinn Ackerman while she is interviewing for Duke. When her admissions counselor tells her she\u2019s too boring and needs to \u201cbreak out of the box,\u201d she starts learning how to dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The movie stars big-name actors and influencers including Sabrina Carpenter (singer and Maya Hart on Girl Meets World), Jordan Fisher (singer and John Ambrose in To All the Boys: P. S. I Still Love You), and Liza Koshy who is best known for her work with former boyfriend David
Dobrik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The movie starts with a monologue from Quinn where she quotes Albert Einstein and Kim Kardashian. From that point on, I knew I would enjoy the movie. I mean c\u2019mon, Einstein and Kim in the same paragraph?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The movie continues to follow Quinn and her best friend Jas (Liza Koshy). Jas is a member of the Thunderbirds, their high school\u2019s award-winning dance team. Her dream is to get into the New York Dance academy who is scouting the big \u201cend of the year\u201d Work It Dance Competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spoiler (but not really): Quinn can\u2019t dance. But she needs to learn for her admissions rep at Duke. This is where we begin to follow her story and grip our armrests in desperation of answering the questions, \u201cWill Quinn get into Duke?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Okay, not really. I was never particularly sitting on the edge of my seat and the jumps the show made were definitely guess-able.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I will say, however, that this show included quite a few pop culture references that I LOVED. It does make a difference in some of the jokes if you haven\u2019t seen the movie or show though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the lack of a new and exciting storyline, I genuinely enjoyed this movie. I haven\u2019t really been able to say that about new movies recently, but maybe that\u2019s just because a majority of filming and releases were put to a halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would give this movie had 7 out of 8 of their dancers counting their four-counts correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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