The Company

2003
6.2| 1h52m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 25 December 2003 Released
Producted By: Sony Pictures Classics
Country: United States of America
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Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
pyattimac The Company is, I believe, intended to be a film about dancers, but it winds up being mainly a vehicle for the dancing sequences, which are wonderful. In fact,I find the analogy of a chocolate chip cookie to be the best description-- the dough serves mainly to hold the chocolate chips! Every time I watched this film (I recorded it from a cable channel) I found myself fast-forwarding to the next dance sequence, and wound up making a recording of just the dance sequences so I could watch them without sitting through the material in between! The acting is adequate, but the story line is sparse and one really does not become engaged by the characters. Still, it is worth watching just to see the dancing, and the variety of pieces makes it enjoyable for folks who are not familiar with dance. I especially love the music, particularly the arrangement of My Funny Valentine for the pas de deux in the rain...beautiful!
paperbag_cannibulivourus I was really looking forward to watching this movie, as I always love ballet movies! However, I was a bit disappointed when I got around to seeing it.Don't get me wrong, the dancing's great, but dance performance and film are completely different media. It's hard to base a film on just a series of dance performances, and little plot.One thing I always look forward to in ballet movies is rehearsal and class scenes, with the performance scenes being less important in my eyes, as we the as the audience still can't see the real lives of the dancers without seeing classes and rehearsals. I would have liked to have seen more class and rehearsal sequences, as opposed to a lot of performances. That being said, I do love the feature on the DVD allowing you to play all the dance sequences.The lack of plot is also a factor for me. After watching it a couple of times, I was still a bit confused as to who most of the characters are, and what they do. I had to watch the DVD commentary to find out who most of the characters were.All in all, I don't think this is a great movie. The dance performances are good (my personal favourites being 'Light Rain' and the salsa-type ballet), but that is the only recommendation I'd make for it.
russetfur This movie is without a doubt the worst movie I've ever seen. It had no visible plot whatsoever. I didn't see anything that even looked like plot lines. It was the most pointless thing that has ever graced the planet. The people didn't speak loudly enough and we had to turn up the volume of the TV even though it made the music far too loud. It could have been done better. The movies 'Centerstage', 'Step Up', and 'Save the Last Dance' are much better depictions of our world. Being a dancer myself, I thought the choreography for this movie could have been a lot better. The dancing was utterly boring. I didn't even bother to watch the whole movie. I was falling asleep the whole time. In my opinion Neve Campbell doesn't measure up to real professionals like Gillian Murphy or Nina Ananiashvili. She's not even close. In conclusion, I think this movie was very poorly made and I would like to see it remade with better sound quality, better acting and better dancing, but above all, there needs to be a better plot because the current one is horrible!!!
Angie I want to try and keep this quick.I danced ballet for many years and even I did not enjoy this film. Yes, there were a few good dance sequences, but honestly, they were few and far between. And many of them relied on fancy circus-like props and costumes. The final dance performance and climax of the movie was ridiculous and disappointing; it was almost as if the movie was making fun of itself by the time it ended - not good! The music was uninspiring.Not to mention a complete lack of plot and writing in "The Company". I didn't care about a single character in this film.Even fluff like "Center Stage" was much more enjoyable and fundamentally truer to the heart of traditional ballet and its inner workings than "The Company".Very disappointing.