What do you get when you combine a hot body, hip-hop and a non-existent plot? You get a very sexy Jessica Alba in the PG-13-rated
Honey, a surprisingly decent though ultimately uninspiring dance "drama."
Alba stars as the title character, a hip-hop teacher who is as tough as she is good-looking. Her dream comes true when she is hired as a dance choreographer for a music video company, but then everything comes shattering down when her boss makes a move on her and she is blacklisted from the industry. She then returns to what she loves most - teaching hip-hop - and sets out to start her own dance studio, but lacking money, it is going to take a miracle to get things going... Of course, as you might expect, everything turns out fine in the end.
Honey is not a deep movie. In fact, there is hardly a deep moment in the entire film. That being said, it isn''t trying to be. Much of the movie is occupied by dancers doing some incredibly good moves, and when the director made this movie, that was exactly his intention. Of course, this may or may not be an excuse, but for the most part, I never became bored of the movie, and that says something. I was expecting some cheesy drama that I would want to turn off after half an hour, but I was pulled into the story just enough to enjoy it. I wouldn''t want to watch it again, but if I was forced to, with a gun to my head, it wouldn''t be a big deal.