| Dancin' It's On! | |
| Director: | David Winters |
| Producer: | David Winters |
| Music: | Misha Segal |
| Cinematography: | Alan Roberts |
| Editing: | Alan Roberts |
| Studio: | East Side Story |
| Distributor: | Medallion Releasing |
| Runtime: | 89 minutes[1] |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $12 million |
| Gross: | $27,000[2] |
Dancin': It's On! is a 2015 American musical romantic comedy film co-written, directed and produced by David Winters in his final film prior to his death in 2019. The cast consists of numerous winners and runner-ups from the dance competition TV show So You Think You Can Dance, led by Witney Carson and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp,[3] with Gary Daniels and Winters.
The film was released on October 30, 2015 by Medallion Releasing, to largely negative reviews from critics and audiences for its acting, screenplay, characters, editing, cinematography, music and dubbing. It has developed a "so bad it's good" cult following.[4]
The movie is about Jennifer (Carson), a girl from Beverly Hills, California, who is sent on a summer holiday in to meet her estranged father Jerry (Daniels) who owns a famous hotel in Panama City, Florida. While there she falls in love with Ken (Wespi-Tschopp), a boy who works there. The two compete in a dancing competition after becoming romantically involved even with disapproval from her father.[5]
Los Angeles Times reviewer Michael Rechtshaffen, gave the film a largely negative review which concluded, "the low-budget production, with its soapy dialogue and cheesy video effects, should have splurged for someone to help choreograph the leads' stiffly executed dramatic exchanges."[6] The Seattle Times reviewer Soren Andersen rated the film one star out of four, criticizing the "simplistic" plot and stiff acting of the lead characters.[7]