Reviews from critics: BoA in Make Your Move

I compiled the following excerpts from reviews listed on the rotten tomatoes: Make Your Move page.


Let's see what the experts have to say about BoA's first acting role ever.







BoA's slightly uncertain English may render some of her lines askew, but she's lovely, an absolute twirling dervish in the spotlight, and her interracial romance with Hough, with its tension and comedy, has a verve-y freshness to it, which reminded me a bit of Marlon Brando and Miiko Taka way back when in 1957's Sayonara. (There's some flavor-adding cultural info as well, concerning BoA's Japanese upbringing as a Korean, and also her use of taeko drums in her dance.)
Read more: http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/content_display/reviews/major-releases/e3i0d420cf12cd67dc59e09cbb727413370 



Nick is furious when Donny falls for Kaz’s sister Aya (charming Korean pop star BoA). Angry threats and secret trysts ensue.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movie-reviews-move-small-time-promise-authors-anonymous-article-1.1759180#ixzz300hz5qAG

Hough, the brother of dancer-singer-actress Julianne Hough (“Footloose,” “Rock of Ages”), shows more than enough charisma here to fill the leading-man bill; BoA, though no less appealing, is more constricted, especially by the seemingly phonetic quality of her performance.
Read more: http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-make-your-move-1201159835/

Starring K-pop queen BoA (also known as Kwon Boa and Kwon Bo-ah) .... Whenever actor Derek Hough and BoA stop leaping and twirling, though, "Make Your Move" is an underwritten mess. .... BoA's screen debut is charmless, and the sass her character is supposed to evince comes solely from the failing grade she gives Donny at the end of a perfectly pleasant night.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-make-your-move-review-20140418,0,4796524.story#axzz2z2n8SEPa

When it comes to actual acting, though, one of his few credits was as a Hogwarts schoolboy in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” He probably didn’t pick up many thespian tips from his co-star love interest in “Make Your Move.” BoA (nee Boa Kwon) is a Korean pop star.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/make-your-move-movie-review/2014/04/16/9b3556e8-c4b4-11e3-b574-f8748871856a_story.html

Aya (the South Korean pop star BoA) ... BoA is cute and appealingly impudent, but a bit more remote.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/movies/make-your-move-stars-derek-hough-and-boa.html?smid=tw-nytmovies&seid=auto&_r=0

our chirpy and wonderful heroine Aya (Korean pop idol BoA) ... As Aya, BoA is a starlet worth keeping an eye on. In a film that only required her to play a shrinking violet with a hidden dance talent, BoA brought a good deal of humanity and charm. She smiles, giggles, and sparkles her way through every scene. Hough is serviceable as a leading man, but it’s the lovely BoA you’ll be looking at. She didn’t just Make Her Move, she Took the Lead.
Read more: http://www.nerdist.com/2014/04/review-make-your-move/

Aya (played by hugely popular recording artist BoA) ... While Make Your Move is intended to be a star vehicle for BoA (a backronym for Best of Asia, or Bring on America, at various points of her career), that will likely be lost on those unfamiliar with her music. The film doesn’t go out of its way to showcase her talents; she doesn’t sing in a single scene, and her dance sequences are limited to a few duets with Hough. On the other hand, BoA’s natural charisma requires no translation, and her robotic co-stars are saddled with such clunky dialogue (“I make million-dollar deals before I make my morning coffee!”) that her nascent English feels par for the course. Her cultural dexterity emerges as her most evident gift—Make Your Move takes full advantage of her fame as the only Korean artist to have two separate million-selling albums in Japan (particularly impressive given the fractious history between the two countries). The film foregrounds BoA’s multi-lingual fluency, not only overlooking her mild difficulties with English, but also openly celebrating her worldliness as proof of her right to remain in America as a true New Yorker.
Read more: http://thedissolve.com/reviews/727-make-your-move/?_r=true

Step Up creator Duane Adler is back with a tapdancing starcross’d romance that showcases the acting talents of BoA and the dance talents of everyone else.
With the exception of BoA, a damned charismatic actor whose natural charms could carry a movie all by their lonesome, the cast of Make Your Move is pretty uniformly terrible whenever their mouths move.
Read more: http://www.craveonline.com/film/reviews/677701-make-your-move-review-romeo-must-tap
Donny almost instantly gets a crush on Aya (played by South Korean pop singer BoA), younger sister to Kaz. ... And BoA, whose fame is enormous in Japan, is wonderful, bringing ambition, humor, and smarts to her character. You like them both.
Read more: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/make-your-move-2014