Make Your Move (film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Make Your Move

| image = Make Your Move 3D.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Duane Adler

| producer = Robert W. Cort
Lee Soo-man
Eric Hetzel
Patricia Chun

| writer = Duane Adler

| based_on = {{based on|Romeo and Juliet|William Shakespeare}}

| starring = BoA Kwon
Derek Hough
Will Yun Lee
Wesley Jonathan
Izabella Miko
Jefferson Brown

| music = Michael Corcoran

| cinematography = Gregory Middleton

| editing = Melissa Kent

| studio = Robert Cort Productions
SM Entertainment

| distributor = High Top Releasing (North America)
CJ Entertainment (South Korea)

| released = {{Film date|2013|10|17|Hong Kong|2014|04|17|South Korea|2014|04|18|United States}}

| runtime =

| country = United States
South Korea

| language = English
Korean
Japanese

| budget =

| gross = $1 million{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=makeyourmove.htm |title=Make Your Move (2014) |publisher=Box Office Mojo |access-date=April 21, 2014}}

}}

Make Your Move (formerly called Cobu 3D, also known as Make Your Move 3D) is a 2014 independent romance drama film starring K-pop singer BoA and ballroom dancer Derek Hough. The film was directed by Duane Adler, who wrote the script for Save the Last Dance (2001) and Step Up (2006).{{cite web |last=Fleming |first=Mike |title='Dancing With The Stars' Derek Hough Teams With Asian Singer BoA On 'Cobu 3D' |url=https://deadline.com/2011/01/dancing-with-the-stars-derek-hough-teams-with-asian-singer-boa-for-cobu-3d-101185/ |work=Deadline Hollywood |date=January 27, 2011 |access-date=October 16, 2012}} Hough took season twelve off of the show Dancing with the Stars to star in the film, which was shot in New York City and Toronto during the spring of 2011.{{cite web |last=Rizzo |first=Monica |title=Derek Hough Leaves Dancing with the Stars |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20462473,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110201200902/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20462473,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 1, 2011 |work=People |date=January 31, 2011 |access-date=October 16, 2012}}{{cite web |last=Rosen |first=Christopher |title=Derek Hough to Appear in Upcoming Film Cobu 3D |url=http://www.wetpaint.com/dancing-with-the-stars/articles/derek-hough-to-appear-in-upcoming-film-cobu-3d |work=WetPaint.com |date=January 28, 2011 |access-date=October 16, 2012 |archive-date=February 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202225619/http://www.wetpaint.com/dancing-with-the-stars/articles/derek-hough-to-appear-in-upcoming-film-cobu-3d |url-status=dead }} Aside from the lead stars, singer Yunho from TVXQ has a cameo appearance.{{cite web |title=Yunho to Appear in BoA's Hollywood Movie "COBU 3D" |url=http://www.soompi.com/2011/05/20/yunho-to-appear-in-boas-hollywood-movie-cobu-3d/ |work=Soompi.com|date=May 20, 2011 |access-date=October 16, 2012}} The film was choreographed by Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, Yako Miyamoto, and Nick Gonzalez.{{cite web|title=BoA meets with hip hop choreographers Tabitha and Napoleon for "COBU 3D" |url=http://www.koreaboo.com/index.html/_/movies/boa-meets-with-hip-hop-choreographers-tabitha-a-r5535 |work=KoreaBoo.com |date=April 15, 2011 |access-date=October 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315182736/http://www.koreaboo.com/index.html/_/movies/boa-meets-with-hip-hop-choreographers-tabitha-a-r5535 |archive-date=March 15, 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{cite journal |date=October 2011 |last=Looseleaf |first=Victoria |title=Hollywood Falls for Dance—Again |url=http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/October-2011/Hollywood-Falls-for-DanceAgain |journal=Dance |access-date=June 10, 2013 |issn=0011-6009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008221344/http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/October-2011/Hollywood-Falls-for-DanceAgain |archive-date=October 8, 2011 }}

A preview of the film was shown at KCON 2012, a Korean entertainment convention, in Irvine, California. Songs from the movie's soundtrack were played at the convention as well including three by the groups Girls' Generation, F(x) and TVXQ.{{cite web |title=Girls' Generation, EXO, TVXQ, & F(x) To Be Featured On "Cobu 3D" Soundtrack |url=http://www.kpopstarz.com/articles/15657/20121014/girls-generation-tvxq-exo-f-x-cobu-3d-soundtrack.htm |work=KPopStarz.com |date=October 14, 2012 |access-date=October 16, 2012}}

The film was released in 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130205000870|title=Korean-foreign productions create buzz for 2013|last=Lee|first=Claire|date=February 5, 2013|work=The Korea Herald|access-date=March 2, 2013}} According to IMDb, it was released in Norway, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark in the summer.{{cite web |title=Release Info |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1828959/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf |work=IMDb.com |access-date=June 25, 2013}} It was released in the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, and the United States in 2014.

Plot

Danny is an aspiring dancer who dreamed to be successful but is unlucky. In order to continue his profession, he moves to New York to work at a bar called "Static" where he meets Kaz's younger sister Aya, despite the rivalry between their siblings, Aya and Donny fall in love.

Cast

Derek Hough as Donny
BoA as Aya
Will Yun Lee as Kaz
Wesley Jonathan as Nick
Izabella Miko as Tatiana
Jefferson Brown as Michael
Miki Ishikawa as Natsumi
Dan Lauria as Parole Officer Foster
Rick Gonzalez as Rene
Michael Mando as Raphael
Yunho as Yunho (cameo)

Reception

Make Your Move has received mixed reviews from critics. {{As of|June 2020}}, the film holds a 38% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 16 reviews with an average rating of 4.76/10.{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/make_your_move_2013/ |title=Make Your Move (2014) |work=RottenTomatoes.com |access-date=June 4, 2020}} Metacritic calculated a score of 40 out of 100 based on 9 reviews, which signifies mixed or average reviews.{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/make-your-move |title=Make Your Move Reviews |work=Metacritic.com |access-date=April 21, 2014}}

Sara Stewart of the New York Post gave the film one out of four stars, saying "The dancing's fine here, but there's little else to distinguish Make Your Move, an entirely generic drama in which two characters actually say to one another, 'What if this doesn't work?' 'It has to.' It doesn't."{{cite web |url=https://nypost.com/2014/04/16/make-your-move-a-generic-dance-fest/ |title='Make Your Move' a generic dance-fest |last=Stewart |first=Sara |date=April 16, 2014 |work=New York Post |access-date=April 29, 2014}}

Inkoo Kang of the Los Angeles Times said "[Make Your Move]'s core dance styles are a wonderfully frenetic fusion of tap and hip-hop and a truly novel blend of Japanese taiko drumming and K-pop girl-group choreography. Whenever actor Derek Hough and BoA stop leaping and twirling, though, Make Your Move is an underwritten mess."{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-make-your-move-review-20140418,0,4796524.story#ixzz2zNJ4xuRr |title=Review: Korean pop music steps up in 'Make Your Move' |last=Kang |first=Inkoo |date=April 17, 2014 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=April 29, 2014}}

Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter said "Undemanding young audiences will hardly mind the one-note characterizations, formulaic storyline and banal dialogue even as they'll relate to the frequent nods to text messaging and YouTube videos gone viral... Hough's dancing is far more impressive than his acting, and BoA, despite her perky sexiness, is an even less compelling screen presence. But they certainly move well together, and that's pretty much all that matters here..."{{cite news |last=Scheck |first=Frank |date=April 17, 2014 |title=Make Your Move: Film Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/make-your-move-film-review-697237 |work=Hollywood Reporter |access-date=April 29, 2014}}

Stephanie Merry of The Washington Post said "Although the bit of bedroom footwork was more laugh-inducing than anything, some of the dancing really is spectacular. Scenes from the competing clubs include impressive choreography and gravity-defying moves. If only the poorly delivered, trite dialogue and predictable plot aimed as high."{{cite news |last=Merry |first=Stephanie |date=April 18, 2014 |title='Make Your Move' movie review |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/make-your-move-movie-review/2014/04/16/9b3556e8-c4b4-11e3-b574-f8748871856a_story. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809124720/https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/make-your-move-movie-review/2014/04/16/9b3556e8-c4b4-11e3-b574-f8748871856a_story./ |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 9, 2019 |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=April 29, 2014}}

Soundtrack

Song ! Artist ! Duration
class="wikitable"
Light Up This City	Candy Coated Killahz	3:59
Say Yes	Jessica, Krystal & Kris	3:58
Let Me In	Michael Corcoran/ Derek Hough	2:37
You Found Me	Shannon LaBrie	4:27
Cobu Love Theme / Static Invasion	The Outfit & Tasha "Dash" Schumann	4:22
Dance to the Drummers Beat	Herman Kelly	3:31
Runnin on Empty	TVXQ	3:34
The Road (Finer Things)	NOLA Fam & Nicky Da B	3:17
Fall For You	Stephen Gordon	4:07
Nu ABO	f(x)	3:43
Simple Simon	On Fire Music	3:13
Cheap Creeper	Girls' Generation	3:01
Catching Shadows	Felicia Barton	3:54
Now We Know	The Outfit	4:38
Breathing Love	Melodye Perry	5:13
Trap	Henry Lau (Super Junior-M)	3:46