“The rest is TBD.”

From Work It.

Quinn (Sabrina Carpenter) has made attending her late father’s alma matter, Duke University, her one and only college goal.  After pouring four years of great grades, music classes, volunteering, and other safe extracurricular activities into her college application, she has created a brilliant but boring life.  After being kicked out of the AV club by Julliard (Keiynan Lonsdale), the captain of her school’s amazing dance team, Quinn is already feeling down when she goes for her Duke admissions interview.  Quinn’s boring accomplishments outside of academics do little to impress the interviewer (Michelle Buteau), until Quinn mentions that she goes to Woodbright High, which leads to a misunderstanding where the interviewer thinks Quinn is on the famous dance team.  Since auditions are coming up, making the team wouldn’t be a huge problem, but the fact that Quinn can’t dance is, so she asks her best friend, Jas (Liza Koshy) to help her train.  While she gets better, she doesn’t make Julliard’s team, so Quinn decides to start her own dance team and enter the Work It Dance Competition for the Duke interviewer to see.  While she convinces Jas to join her fairly easily, Quinn faces some challenges in finding dancers (Bianca Asilo, Tyler Hutchings, Indiana Mehta, Neil Robles, and Nathaniel Scarlette), but convincing injured former dancer, Jake (Jordan Fisher), to be choreographer is her biggest challenge… besides learning how to dance herself.  While their dance team is able to qualify for Work It, the struggles only seem to amplify the seemingly impossible task of performing well, especially for Quinn.  As Quinn’s mom (Naomi Snieckus) worries about her dropping grades, Quinn has to find the balance between learning to dance and staying on top of all her academics and relationships as the biggest competition of her life quickly approaches.

While parts of this teen dance movie seem very formulaic, the majority of the film is fresh and funny.  Carpenter is the perfect awkward lead, especially when partnered with Koshy’s constant comedy.  Conscious to not take itself too seriously, Work It is an enjoyable, fun story filled with impressive moves and catchy music.

| Rated: TV-14 | Running Time: 93 minutes |Genre: comedy/music|

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 3 of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0.5 of 10|Gore: 0 of 10

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