Movie review
Honey tackles tough topics
by Alina Cole, Reporter

 

   Honey Daniels, a young aspiring choreographer in the new release Honey, wants to make it big in the entertainment business.
   Being a dance instructor by day at her mother’s run-down neighborhood recreation center and a bartender by night, Honey (Jessica Alba) waits for the minute she is out of work so she can do what she is passionate about, dance. Without the support of her mother (Lonette McKee), Honey has to be confident in herself and in her intentions for her own life.
   All her dreams of working with famous music artists and being in the dance spotlight are thrown her way when a famous video producer (David Moscow) sees her moves from a club one night and gives her the chance to make everything she’s ever wanted come true. Starting out dancing in a video, she shines through and is given the opportunity to move up to cho-reography.
   Honey is overwhelmed by her sudden success until the producer she thought was her friend gives her an ultimatum: be with him or lose her career.
   With everything coming down on her, she sees the more important lessons in front of her. She catches the interest of local neighborhood kids dancing in an alley after work. Benny (Lil’ Romeo) and his younger brother Raymond (Zachary Isaiah Williams) wander the streets daily, avoiding the home they have grown to hate.
   Honey sees through the tough outer layer of the older brother and gives him a chance to turn his life around by asking them to join her hip-hop dance class.
   When she starts dating her long-time pursuer Chaz (Mekhi Phifer), she learns the similarities between Chaz and the young Benny. Chaz, who owns a barbershop, helps Honey realize what she has to do to help the kids be smart in their life’s decisions.
   When the money she was making stops coming in, she throws a benefit to raise the money to open up her dance school.
   Honey is a great movie for all audiences, rated PG-13 for drug content and sexual references. The film’s storyline and good acting make the movie worth seeing.