There are guys too, of course, for those who care. And Cynthia is only one of the numerous shapely women featured throughout. Although Jennifer Beals was fine in "Flashdance," Cynthia easily surpasses her. For instance, Cynthia Dale is a great protagonist for this type of flick she's cute, winsome, sprightly and insanely curvaceous. What is required in a aerobics sports flick from 1984? Quality characters, heavenly bodies (sorry), energetic music, kinetic direction, a story that keeps your attention and a film that generally keeps your blood pumping, right? "Heavenly Bodies" scores well in all these areas. The question is: Does it deliver on that level? Yes, in spades. "Heavenly Bodies" never aspired to be "Ghandi" or "Out of Africa." It's a sports film focusing on aerobics for cryin' out loud. Films should be evaluated according to what they aspire to be and, consequently, no genre is beyond redemption or beneath contempt. Some have lambasted "Heavenly Bodies" as the "worst film ever made," "bad cinema" and "heavily campy," but actually none of these criticisms are true. When the building is bought out from under them by a competing fitness center, the main protagonist, Samantha Blair (Cynthia Dale), issues a challenge - a dance-aerobics competition - with the building as the prize. In "Heavenly Bodies" three women decide to start a fitness club that specializes in aerobic with intentions of eventually purchasing the building they lease. "Heavenly bodies" (1984) was Canada's answer to 1983's "Flashdance." Not that it's a rip-off, because the stories are totally different.
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