Burn The Floor

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General		Extras
Category	Dance	Theatrical Trailer(s)	None
Rating		Other Trailer(s)	None
Year Released	1999	Commentary Tracks	None
Running Time	92:12	Other Extras	Featurette-Burn The Floor-A Breathtaking Journey (29:00)
RSDL/Flipper	RSDL (69:48)	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Menu
Region	2,4	Director	David Mallet
Studio Distributor	Duet Entertainment Universal Home Video	Starring	Burn The Floor Company
Case	Super Jewel
RRP	$34.95	Music	Stephen Brooker

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	None	MPEG	None
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	1.78:1	Dolby Digital	5.1
16x9 Enhancement		Soundtrack Languages	English (Dolby Digital 5.1, 448Kb/s) English (Dolby Digital 2.0 , 192Kb/s)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio	1.78:1	Miscellaneous
Macrovision	Yes	Smoking	No
Subtitles	None	Annoying Product Placement	No
		Action In or After Credits	No

    Burn The Floor is a dance stage show spectacular that is "taking the world by storm" according to the cover notes. In essence, it is ballroom dancing taken to the extreme.

    I'll be blunt. I'm not a huge fan of dance shows, though I didn't mind Lord Of The Dance and Feet Of Flames which I have reviewed in the past. This show bored me. The audience at the show were clearly not bored, and appeared to be having the time of their collective lives.

    It started slowly, with a waltz, and then alienated me with an extended industrial sequence before jumping back into more melodious dance numbers. To me, this show simply lacked any passion. Everything was choreographed and performed to the nth degree with no room for passion or spontaneity. This was epitomized in the passionless Spanish sequences which simply lacked the fire and seething passion that these sequences should have had.

Video

    The transfer is quite sharp and clear for the great majority of the transfer, though flare from the stage lights is occasionally a problem, leading to some wash-out of white details at times. Shadow detail is acceptable, and there is no low level noise.

    Colours are generally very spectacularly rendered, from the strict black and white colouration of the ballroom sequences to the multi-colours of the jive sequence. The stage lighting works very hard during this show, and this is nicely represented in this transfer. The only minor complaint that I will make about the colour is that some of the blues have a small amount of chroma noise in their depths, but this is a really minor complaint.

    There were no noticeable MPEG artefacts, a remarkable achievement given the enormous amount of dynamic movement and lighting changes inherent in this image. Aliasing was trivial and of no concern in this transfer, and there were no film artefacts, as this transfer was originated on video. One mildly annoying artefact was caused by the various special video effects used during this transfer - when these effects were engaged, a very slight skip in the video stream would occasionally manifest itself.

Audio

    There was little dialogue or vocal in this score, which mainly comprises instrumental and orchestral accompaniment. When vocals accompanied the music, they were easy enough to understand, though the vocals in Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy were spread a little thinly across the left and right front channels for my tastes. There were no audio sync problems.

    The music was supervised by Stephen Brooker, and consisted of a range of musical styles, from classical waltz to industrial to jazz to rock 'n' roll. Since the entire show was choreographed, the music complemented the on-screen action perfectly.

    The surround channels carried an ambient version of the music. Predominantly, the music was mixed into the left and right front speakers, with a small contribution coming from the center channel and a small contribution coming from the rear channels. Audience noise was mixed more into the rear surround speakers, providing a reasonable separation between music and audience noise.

    The subwoofer was constantly used by this soundtrack to place a welcome bottom end on this soundtrack.

Menu

Featurette - Burn The Floor-A Breathtaking Journey

Booklet

• English DTS 5.1 soundtrack
• Theatrical Trailer
• Production Notes
• Cast & Crew Biographies
• Web Links

• 16x9 Enhancement

    The video quality is reasonable for what it is.

    The audio quality is reasonable.

    The extras are small in quantity but big in quality.

Video
Audio
Extras
Plot
Overall

© Michael Demtschyna (read my bio)
19th April 2000