Shall we Dance

Starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Jennifer Lopez, the movie is about a man who is exploring his liking in dancing.
The movie begins by showing how John Clark is leading the same life everyday and there seems to be nothing exciting in his life, until he notices a lonely face at the window of a dancing school. After many days of contemplation, he finally makes the move to enter the classroom, thinking he could just watch and he ends up signing up for the class, by the same woman, whose lonely face, he used to see at the window.
Dancing lessons begin and Clark meets a whole new world of people, that he keeps a secret from his family. A overweight friend, who wants to lose weight; a homosexual, who is in denial about his liking; a loud-mouthed stressed woman, who is struggling to make ends meet with her passion and finally, Paulina, the dance teacher, who always seems lonely.
At one point in time, Paulina tells him to come to the class if he is truly interested in dance and not her. Taking dance seriously, John returns to class and eventually, he is put in a serious competition with the other beginners to compete with many others. Paulina now trusts him with her story about how she was a great dancer taking part in the competitions, but a mistake cost her everything - her love and her dancing. But now, she wants to dance because of John and she thanks him for that.
Meanwhile, John's wife, Beverly, thinks that he is having an affair and hires a private investigator and when she finds out, she is relieved, but can't understand why he is not confiding in her. She too starts self learning dance.
On the day of the competition, everything goes well, until John realises that his family is watching him. He misses steps and embarrassment results. He tries to make up to his family by staying away from dance classes, but eventually, Beverly asks him to bid Paulina for the final adieu.
Finally, everything falls in place - Paulina takes part in the dance competition; John and Bev in a healthy relationship; the overweight guy getting married; the homosexual friend accepting who he is and the loud mouthed woman finding her true love.
Lopez really seemed angry almost all the time. It made sense why she was angry in the present, but even when her past was shown, she seemed pretty angry and most of the time, her face seemed to show a scornish expression than sadness.
Gere was good at capturing his uncontrollable gaze at Paulina and the delicate embarrassments, when he blurted the wrong things out. Sarandon was really cute with the eyebrow raisers and blinking when she was confused. I have to give congrats to the guys who acted as the other new dance learners too. They did an awesome job of the little screen space they shared.
The movie moved fast and it wasn't soggy or too mushy. I haven't watched the actual Japanese version. Maybe that would give me a better idea of whether this movie was better than the original. But definitely worth a watch.