Or think too hard about why Regine inexplicably makes reference to MC Hammer. Or wonder why 11-year-old Félicie is dancing Irish jigs in a bar and getting creepily hit on by the older Rudolph, a preening East European prince and resident lord of the dance. It’s probably best not to hold Leap! to any strict historical standard and ponder how Lady Liberty can be used as a plot device here when she was already ensconced in New York by the time digging started on the Eiffel Tower. More: Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Cut to the Feeling' fuels exclusive new 'Leap!' trailer The Statue of Liberty is integral in the lead-up to the climax, and Saturday Night Live's Kate McKinnon deftly pulls triple duty playing Félicie’s mother, the orphanage’s Mother Superior and Camille’s extremely ruthless dance mom Regine. While Victor yearns to be an inventor, Félicie - whose slight, rubbery body bends and moves beautifully even when doing the dishes - has sights on being a ballerina.Įven though it’s a French period piece, a couple of American national treasures play important roles. The movie’s setup is slow going at first: Félicie (voiced by Elle Fanning) and Victor (Nat Wolff) are best friends who plot to escape their rural orphanage, hightail it out of Brittany and head to Paris. NBC shared four photos from the pilot episode of Quantum Leap, featuring Raymond Lee alongside his costars Caitlin Bassett, Ernie Hudson, Mason Alexander Park, and Nanrisa Lee. Leap Year is a 2010 American drama film directed by Fisher Stevens and written by Cheryl Guerriero. When Anna’s (Amy Adams) four-year anniversary to her boyfriend passes without an engagement ring, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
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And for the adults in the crowd, Leap! pulls judiciously from Flashdance, Rocky IV and Footloose for inspiration. Youngsters will appreciate the dance scenes (some comedic, some dramatic, some downright war-like), as well as the soundtrack where Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker plays alongside Sia, Demi Lovato and Carly Rae Jepsen. The stealing of the letter is apparently totally justified because Camille threw Félicie’s dead mother’s music box out a window.The Karate Kid of ballet films, the endearing animated film (**½ out of four rated PG in theaters nationwide Friday) is a predictable coming-of-age tale set in 19th-century Paris that revolves around a young orphan getting her big chance to dance and eliciting all the available feels. Félicie has been working for Camille’s evil mother (Kate McKinnon). Within a day, Victor is working for an unnamed Gustav Eiffel, and Félicie has scammed her way into a prestigious ballet school after taking the acceptance letter intended for spoiled brat Camille (Maddie Ziegler). She wants to be a dancer, he wants to be an inventor. We’re plunged into the drama right away as dreamers Félicie (given voice by Elle Fanning) and Victor (Nat Wolff) bid bye-bye to their draconian orphanage in the 19th century French countryside and hitch a ride to Paris. Leap is a trilogy of Christian end times films written and directed by Filmmaker Chris Tempel a.k.a. There is a lot misplaced effort in “Leap!” - and, unfortunately, very little seems to have been put into the story and screenplay, written by Laurent Zeitoun, Eric Summer and Carol Noble. A description of tropes appearing in Leap. At times though it seems all of the resources have been put into the background environment instead of the characters. Though the distressingly large lollipop heads of the characters are often disconcerting, some of the animation is striking and near photorealistic.
theaters equipped with a Carly Rae Jepsen summer jam, “Cut to the Feeling.” But you’ll spend an hour and 27 minutes waiting for the film to cut to that tune because the ramshackle storytelling takes its own sweet time in this tale of a young girl finding passion and purpose through dance.
This Canadian production, originally titled “Ballerina,” finally hits U.S. The animated feature “Leap!” pirouettes onto screens hoping to snag the attention of young audiences during the dog days of summer.
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