Flashdance Review

Overall Rating

Saw Flashdance at the Derngate in Northampton with a couple of friends and children. Children aged 10 ,13 .14. 15 and 17 none of us were impresssed. I thought the lead was an understudy and her dancing was mediocre this was particulary evident in Oh what a feeling. The songs were otherwise instantly forgettable so much so that during the interval we commented that we couldn't remember a single tune.Gloria had the only impressive voice .The lead clearly worked hard but mostly we couldn't undersaynd the lyrics. There were no show stoppers and the end was anticlimatic and unbelievable."oh dear your mother's dead but that's ok you just got into dance school!". Having seen fame and Saturday night fever this just wasn't in the same league. On one hand it was much darker than expected and had no feel good factor at all. Darker would have been ok if it had been dramatic or if you feel emotionally involved but frankly couldn't have cared less when her mother died or whether she got into dance school. The only emtion by that point was a strong desire for it to end.