The Sundance audience award winner with a sparkling Dakota Johnson brings its low-key likeability to Apple TV+.
Will somebody please continue to give two-time filmmaker Cooper Raiff the resources he needs to make whatever movies he wants while firmly and in perpetuity revoking his titling privileges? “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” the sweet, sincere, superbly played new film from the director of the also great, also horribly titled “S—house,” is a delight, and deserves a lot better than a name that to anyone unfamiliar with the lyrics of the 2000 DJ Casper novelty hit “Cha Cha Slide,” must sound like an ad...
But wait! Retrieve your eyeballs from the dusty corner into which they may have rolled and pop them back in. The film is a charmer, and Raiff, against the significant odds he sets himself, a remarkably winning presence — imagine a Zach Braff type whom you don’t necessarilyto see fall in a moat. As the movie dances right up to the conventions of this well-worn genre, then deftly slides to avoid them, you might just find yourself clapping along in spite of it all being terminally uncool.
Bringing David to a friend’s bar mitzvah, Andrew impresses the attending parents by getting the lifeless party going, including coaxing solitary, bullied Lola and her wary, attentive mother Domino onto the dance floor. Andrew bonds with Lola, which leads to a babysitting gig, which in turn leads to a few increasingly intimate encounters with Domino.
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