Heavenly Bodies

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CodyZamboni Z @CodyZamboni Jun 11 Good natured, fun, and at times, quite endearing. It is also silly and campy. Cynthia Dale is the whole movie. She is so appealing, charming, attractive and exhuberant. We root for Cynthia in her battle to make her aerobics studio a success against steep odds. The final aerobics marathon dance off is applaud worthy. See more Allan C @RT15713161 02/02/2025 This film is a complete cheese-fest, but I loved it! A plucky single mom leaves her office job to open up a jazzercise studio. However, she runs afoul a corporate jazzercise studio that wants to put them out of business, which leads to a climactic jazzercise showdown! Leotards and musical montages abound in this Canadian FLASHDANCE knockoff (our heroine even stands by a FLASHDANCE poster at one point). While clearly cashing in on the spandex-dance film 80s craze, it is utterly charming and nowhere as raunchy as FLASHDANCE or PERFECT. The film’s lead, Canadian actress Cynthia Dale, is incredibly charming and likable. I’m surprised she never made the leap from Canadian TV and movies to Hollywood. She’s so good. While HEAVENLY BODIES could easily be enjoyed ironically, like SHOWGIRLS, I straight-up loved this film. It’s cheesy 80s comfort food that is pretty irresistible for anyone who grew up watching these sorts of films. Light romance, bitchy mean girls, wall-to-wall music (everything from the Pointer Sisters to The Tubes), and a classic 80s film climax where the heroes challenge the bullies to some sort of competition to settle things. What’s not to love about this corny 80s masterpiece? See more 04/16/2021 I love this movie! It's fun and has some good moments. Cynthia Dale is amazing and does all her own dancing. See more 10/24/2020 80s dance off movie. So bad its good. See more 05/31/2013 The film that took aerobics, a staple of early morning TV at the time, to the big screen. Three gutsy young women who are short on cash but high on energy open an aerobics studio that somehow becomes newsworthy when their lease is bought out. To save the club, the girls challenge the buyer's club to a "marathon dance off" for the lease. Laughable concept in the first place but it gets better with a press conference, tv coverage, and live radio reports during the competition. I half expected ESPN to show up to provide analysis in a postgame show. See more 11/29/2012 It's survival of the fittest--literally--as rival health clubs engage in an aerobics marathon with the fate of one club hanging in the proverbial balance. Contains a fitting high-energy soundtrack with many montages of aerobics. I hadn't realized that legwarmers were acceptable for men to wear too. Sure to bring back fond memories of early-morning exercise programs of the 80s. See more Read all reviews

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