Review of Groove

Groove (2000)
6/10
Worth a watch
10 March 2002
If for no other reason, this movie is worth watching simply because it has a couple of moments in it that manage to capture the positive vibe of a really good rave. Examples of this are a girl stopping everyone in the chill room and saying "Ok, has anyone seen a stuffed animal in here?"...or a guy offering a sip of his bottled water to a dancing girl he doesn't know, who takes the water in stride, sips it, hands it back, and continues to dance without skipping a beat.

Those are the little kind of things that go on at raves that would make them fun. People just don't act like that around strangers normally...but at a rave things are different, and people seem to lower their shields to the rest of the world.

There's other examples in this movie which illustrate special aspects to the rave world. But, to me it's the little things in this movie that are special. That's because they are things that aren't too cliche', and you would forget about them if someone weren't to remind you of them.

Don't compare it to "Go". "Go" isn't about a "rave". It is about events that take place in one night that happen to include going to a rave for one little shred of the movie. This movie revolves around the event itself - in the dance floor, the chill room, and behind the scenes.

Cute movie.
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