Review – Lambada

As God is my witness, I swear I never thought I’d ever need to type these words, but here they are nonetheless: this movie needed way more Lambada. Even an unending parade of the “forbidden dance” would have been a welcome relief from what otherwise turned out to be a dreadful 80s teen movie. A teacher at a high school for rich kids moonlights at a local dance club, dividing his time between forbidden dancing and teaching geometry to the street urchins. Before we’re done, we’ve gone through just about every dumb cliché in the juvenile drama book. And by the time it ends up with a math competition between the rich kids and the punks (guess who wins), I was ready to beg for mercy. See if desperate