How does she dance on the beat?” A woman yells at young girls about wanting to be dancers and makes them cry. Fun facts: actor, trivia, popularity rankings, and more. Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE & LANGUAGE on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest depending on quantity & context |more|, Print a page, share with friends, and yes, please go ahead and email links. How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives, Participate in DigCit Week with your kid by using curated activities from Wide Open School, Online Playdates, Game Nights, and Other Ways to Socialize at a Distance, Keeping Kids Motivated for Online Learning. If you think what we do is worthwhile, please donate or become a member. Families can talk about how everyone can overcome challenges. Why is “Feel the Beat” rated TV-G? Dance costumes are revealing of bare legs to the hips, and partial buttocks, cleavage and backs in several scenes. Mild profanity, suggestive dance moves.

© Common Sense Media. However, any commercial reproduction of anything appearing within this site is both illegal and in really bad taste and we will take action... |more|. Teen girls tease other girls and a woman before a dance competition; one says, “Break a leg and a wrist and fall over.” A teen boy holds a teen girl over his head in a dance move and the girl’s bra padding falls out of her shirt and onto the floor (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details); another teen boy mocks her and laughs causing the girl to run away crying. It's on the same level as the also PG-13 rated School of Rock. What other dance movies have you seen? She also hurt her ex-boyfriend Nick (Wolfgang Novogratz), who she dismissed by text before she left town to seek fame and fortune in New York. It was just weird and uncomfortable.

A teen girl and a teen boy look at each other flirtatiously and a younger girl makes smooching sounds to tease the girl.

Join now. A woman talks about her mother choosing to leave her when she was young and a teen girl talks about her mother having died.

A teen girl vomits on a woman’s show and we see goo splatter.

| profanity glossary |. That same woman, a producer, arrives at the audition late, furious over the cab incident, and assures April that she'll never work in this town again. A woman dances in a barn and a man watches; she is embarrassed when she realizes he’s been watching her. April is critical, dismissive, and impatient with the kids, seemingly oblivious to the way she's hurting and discouraging them. A man and woman kiss. ► A man and woman kiss a few times. Barb makes casseroles for anyone in town going through a challenge. We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and older reviews are not as complete & accurate as recent ones; we plan to revisit and correct older reviews as resources and time permits. There are some positive messages, including un-stereotyping gender roles (the mini-dancers); but there's also the part where the coach/teacher tells a kid multiple times that she basically has no talent and never makes an effort to apologize, find the child's other talents or anything a true role model and leader should do.

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Feel the Beat Rating & Content Info Why is Feel the Beat rated Not Rated? A woman wears a crop top that reveals cleavage and her bare abdomen. Join now. If you chose to provide an email address, it will only be used to contact you about your comment. All of this adds up to an overall foundation of goodness that infects even the most resistant cynic. Oh My God, Oh God, Oh Lord). Someone suggests someone else "grow a pair. She forgets that decency is an important part of how to live your life. Feel the Beat is rated Not Rated by the MPAA .

Parents: Set preferences and get age-appropriate recommendations with Common Sense Media Plus. Heartwarming, funny underdog story has cursing, potty humor. See something that needs to be addressed? Famous Birthdays . – Ambition, small towns, going home, commitment, ending relationships, self-pity, chasing dreams, imperfections, perfectionism, competition. A woman and a teen girl argue bitterly and the woman tells her to leave her class, and the girls says, “Make me” and then storms out. April is rude, cynical, sarcastic, nasty, self absorbed, and single-minded. While we read all emails & try to reply we don't always manage to do so; be assured that we will not share your e-mail address. Directed by Elissa Down.

Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free. zergnet.type = 'text/javascript'; zergnet.async = true; Director Elissa Down struggles in the early scenes, relying on cliches, improbabilities, and oversimplifications to establish the grumpy, self absorbed character who leaves friends and family behind to pursue her ambition. A boy and a girl practice a dance lift and they fall to the floor several times (there are no injuries). "S--t" appears in a song lyric (easily missed unless you're using captions). ► A woman dances onstage with several teen and pre-teen girls and the woman falls; one of the girls helps her up and we see no injury. var znscr = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; A young boy is shown with bruising on his wrist from practicing a dance move repeatedly. Did you know you can now filter searches by any combination of ratings? Slowly, working with the kids and receiving an infusion of small-town neighborliness grounds April and forces her to connect with people. Two women fight over a cab in the rain. With Sofia Carson, Pamela MacDonald, Sonia Laplante, Nayo. It was merely the right and normal thing to do. Dance routines performed by young girls are sexualized; they twerk while wearing Vegas-inspired outfits. April, unapologetic but broke, heads home to small-town Wisconsin where her first dance teacher, the warm and welcoming Barb (Donna Lynne Champlin), suggests April teach a class.