Make It Happen: Critic Reviews

34%

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

22%

Rotten Tomatoes: 20 reviews

Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

20

Its just as cheesy and just as icky, but calamitously fails to offer any high-octane dance to ease the pain.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Mike Edwards Obsessed With Film

40

Another dance movie this year? Seriously, where the heck do they keep coming from?
Full Review » 2 years ago
Mike Edwards What Culture

40

Another dance movie this year? Seriously, where the heck do they keep coming from?
Full Review » 2 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

50

...yet another tedious inspirational tale revolving around a would-be dancer's efforts at transcending her wrong-side-of-the-tracks upbringing to become a professional hoofer.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Andrew L. Urban Urban Cinefile

We know the trajectory, it's a question of how brightly the rocket burns and how interested we are in the astronauts aboard this dance missile from small town Indiana to Chicago Big Time Dance School
Full Review » 4 years ago
Irish Times

Full Review » 5 years ago
Des Partridge Courier Mail (Australia)

88

Mary Elizabeth Winstead [has] star quality.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Jake Wilson The Age (Australia)

50

It's hard to dislike all these urban musicals aimed at teenage girls, and even harder to tell them apart.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Jason Di Rosso MovieTime, ABC Radio National

This film's limp retelling of the against-all-odds cliche just doesn't bump, grind or sweat enough to make it happen.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Kevin Maher Times [UK]

20

It could be a contemporary take on classic backstage musicals. Or it could be the end of the cinematic arts as we know them.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Nick De Semlyen Empire Magazine

40

The directing's lazy, the love interest is a smarmy douche and the dialogue is flatter than Winstead's toned tummy.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Daniel Etherington Film4

40

There's dancing, there's emotion, there's an earnestly cheesy inspirational storyline, there's nothing you won't have seen before.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Derek Malcolm This is London

40

So predictable that you know exactly what's going to happen at any given minute.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Tom Huddlestone Time Out

34

Despite boundless energy and some surprisingly artful photography, 'Make it Happen' is never more than product. Cheap, abysmally scripted and utterly soulless.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Elliott Noble Sky Movies

0

This awesomely unambitious film has all the depth of a Pepsi ad.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Anthony Quinn Independent

40

Then you wait for the moment one of the regular girls gets injured, the hostess has to find a replacement and... the rest you know.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Ellen E Jones Total Film

40

It's all just filler between the dance scenes, which are admittedly fun. Think Pussycat Dolls with slightly more clothes on. Unrepentantly formulaic, but enjoyable all the same.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Sun Online

20

The film should have been called Rehash Dance, because it is Flashdance without any new ideas.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Victor Olliver Teletext

80

The story may be predictable but Winstead infuses every moment with an amazing amount of charm.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Matthew Turner ViewLondon

60

In short, this is a watchable dance movie and Winstead's performance just about compensates for the generally poor direction.
Full Review » 5 years ago