Cuban Fury

The first moments of Cuban Fury June 2 seemed to be quite dooming. Dancing feet and a talk about Salsa... You will understand my feelings about this when you keep in mind that I go to the sneak every and it feels like each week for at least two or three months I have been seeing the trailer for the new Step Up movie. I honestly have to admit that this movie looks nowhere near promising for me. Admittedly, I haven't seen the first parts of it and to be quite frank, I have no intention of doing so anytime so. The target audience of Step Up seem to be teenage girls and the trailer already hints at the less than perfect dubbing and at jokes that I am sure are supposed to be funny...just not for me...

  

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Anyway, this post is about Cuban Fury not Step Up. So after the initial shock that the movie wasn't going nearly as bad as I had feared and I actually liked it very much. The main character Bruce is portrayed by British actor Nick Frost whom I had first seen in Hot Fuzz (the second part of Frost's and Simon Pegg's Cornetto trilogy) and whom I consider to be a very good comedy actor. On a side note, because it was the first Monday in June this was an OV sneak. I have to say that I always prefer seeing the original version over watching a dubbed version. With Cuban Fury I had some difficulty to understand everything at times. However, this did in no way diminish the fun I had with this movie. I don't think I will be too relevant for German audiences anyway, as most cinemas will probably show the dubbed version.

The movie itself is quite charming. Young Bruce gave up on his promising Salsa career after being teased about it. Now present Bruce takes out his Salsa shoes again and steps up (oh, well) to the dance floor once more in order to - well, as you might guess - impress a woman. Hereby Frost delivers quite a good performance making it a very enjoyable movie. If you like comedy movies with a bit of a romantic touch you might really consider seeing Cuban Fury.

German release: June 19, 2014