Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Ploydsge just watch it!

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

James Hitchcock To be honest, Neve Campbell is best known to me as the girl who kisses Denise Richards in "Wild Things", and I suspect that most male film- goers would say the same. That famous kiss apart, I have normally associated Neve with silly comedies or third-rate thrillers and horror movies, but this film shows that there is more to her than that. In her youth Neve trained with the National Ballet of Canada and had long held the ambition to make a film set in the world of the ballet. "The Company" was the result. Neve not only starred in the film but also co- wrote and co-produced it. The "company" of the title is the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, a real ballet company. Most of the roles are played by company members, although Campbell herself plays the main role of Loretta 'Ry' Ryan, a rising young star dancer. Malcolm McDowell plays the company's artistic director, Alberto Antonelli, and James Franco plays Loretta's boyfriend Josh.Although all the various plot lines are fictitious, Robert Altman directs very much in the style of a "fly on the wall" documentary. There are lengthy extracts from ballets performed by the Joffrey Ballet and we see Antonelli holding discussions with his dancers and with other members of the company's management. I did not, however, think that this approach really works as a method of telling a fictional story because it is too detached and unemotional. There is no real linear plot; Loretta may be the main character but even her story tends to get swallowed up in a mass of detail. Another ballerina is injured and a male dancer is sacked from his role by an autocratic choreographer. Both these incidents in themselves could have formed the basis for an intriguing film, or at least a subplot, here they are dealt with so briefly and in such a dry, matter-of-fact way that they make little impact and the characters are soon forgotten. Although I have no great interest in ballet, two ballet-related films, Powell and Pressburger's "The Red Shoes" and Darren Arenofsky's more recent "Black Swan", are both favourites of mine. I think the reason is that they are only incidentally about ballet; they are also about all those things that make all great films great- a great script, great acting, great characters and unforgettable human dramas. "The Company" has none of these things; its well-staged dance sequences may make it popular with balletomanes but to the rest of us it seems to have something missing. It is not in the same class as Altman's previous film, "Gosford Park". The best acting contribution is from McDowell, if you can overlook his British accent- Antonelli is supposed to be Italian-American- but even his character is not one we can really identify with. Loretta is pretty forgettable, and her romance with Josh never arouses much interest. The documentary-style script is very dry. One critic called it the best movie of 2003; I can only presume he didn't get to the cinema much in that year. 4/10

kentingey We all have great desires in our youth to display our talents -- assuming, of course, that we are able to fight through the jungles of life and of "education" to find out what they really are. Very few of us end up achieving this, either because our talents are not discovered, they are not fostered, or our personal commitment is not there. The result that talents are often not developed to their potential, nor are they discovered and enjoyed by others. Perhaps our talents are not of the performing kind. Nonetheless, something fantastic happens when great talent achieves its potential, when magical scenes such as appear in The Company are brought to the public.The ultimate question is this, which is the illusion and which is the reality? It is not that the romance is possibly underdeveloped. It might not be real. The burdens of her impending stardom may make an alliance impossible, a fleeting wish. By the same token, injury or some other impediment may throw her into the arms (and the kitchen) of the budding culinary impresario. Perhaps this is the back history of the greatest restaurant in the world. Did we witness the zenith of her career or just an important step on the way to global jet-setting stardom? The rise and fall of the members of the company attest to this point. In the misty havens between our dreams and reality, there is room for hope in us all.

aloyoon hi this the first time i wrote any thing in IMDb but i couldn't help myself i want to warn people about this movieif you are thinking about watching this movie believe me just don'tthe acting was awful no dialogs it is like they forgot to write the script the story also awful there is no point of the movie it is not even a movie it was veryboring no dialogs no acting nothing i really mean it nothing what a Waste of timejust believe me don't watch this thingif it was up to me i would rate this thing under zero

russetfur This movie is without a doubt the worst movie I've ever seen. It had no visible plot whatsoever. I didn't see anything that even looked like plot lines. It was the most pointless thing that has ever graced the planet. The people didn't speak loudly enough and we had to turn up the volume of the TV even though it made the music far too loud. It could have been done better. The movies 'Centerstage', 'Step Up', and 'Save the Last Dance' are much better depictions of our world. Being a dancer myself, I thought the choreography for this movie could have been a lot better. The dancing was utterly boring. I didn't even bother to watch the whole movie. I was falling asleep the whole time. In my opinion Neve Campbell doesn't measure up to real professionals like Gillian Murphy or Nina Ananiashvili. She's not even close. In conclusion, I think this movie was very poorly made and I would like to see it remade with better sound quality, better acting and better dancing, but above all, there needs to be a better plot because the current one is horrible!!!