Let It Shine

2012

Action / Drama / Family / Music / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 84% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 5159 5.2K

hip-hop rapper musical

Plot summary

A young teenage rapper must use his musical talent to help his friend out and win the girl of his dreams by going through several events of betrayal, trust and agreement while his religious parents have strictly dislike his interests.

Director

Paul Hoen Photo
Paul Hoen

Top cast

Courtney B. Vance Photo
Courtney B. Vance as Jacob
Tyler James Williams Photo
Tyler James Williams as Cyrus
Alex Désert Photo
Alex Désert as Levi
Coco Jones Photo
Coco Jones as Roxie
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953.17 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 5
1.91 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 18

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MasanoriHirano 5 / 10

It's not bad movie

I like Disney Channel Original movies and I'm huge fun of Disney. As some of you know, this movie is also one of that. However, I don't like it no less than other ones.First of all, music is good. Like other Disney Channel Original movies, it also contains a lot of music which is likely to make us get the rhythm. And the kinds of music is various. I love these kinds of music. In particular, gospel one is awesome!Others, story is OK. But, comparing with other Disney Channel Original movies, it is a little emotionless. Of corse, some of other who have already seen doesn't agree with this opinion, but I feel so.
Reviewed by owen-edogiawerie 6 / 10

A good copycat movie of 8 Mile... And they got away with it!

Well, what can I say? This movie was good. When Disney dropped the trailer, I was really interested to watch it. So to avoid waiting in the UK, I watched it on YouTube with my brother. Later on, my brother began to be obsessed with it. And as a hip hop junkie, I notice some things wrong with itThe movie overall was so similar to 8 Mile. Not many people spotted that and told some people. Bling to me was like Papa Doc. In the final rap battle of 8 Mile, B-Rabbit (Eminem) embarrass Papa. That's the same thing Cyrus does in Let It Shine.Roxie was like Alex. As B-Rabbit had a love for rap, he also had love for Alex. Same thing with Cyrus and Roxie.And Kris was like Link. He was more of a betrayer. Getting the girls instead of Cyrus.But overall, it was a good movie, which tries to be a clean and Disnified version of 8 Mile. But to be honest, it was good to see Tyler James (Everybody Hates Chris) show his rapping skills here. This is why I rated it 6/10. If only it was original...
Reviewed by RaeniJoy 6 / 10

Is Disney Trying to Introduce Culture Into the Lives of Little Kids, or Are They Just Running Out of Ideas?

So while I was watching this with my brothers, I realized something: This movie had some very close similarities to the classic French play "Cyrano de Bergerac:" A not-so-attractive guy, who happens to be great with words falls in love with the beautiful girl he's known for years, but she's in love with the handsome, brainless guy who has no skills with words whatsoever. The brainless guy then enlists the help of the not-so-attractive guy to help him impress the pretty girl. Then I started noticing the names of the characters. In Cyrano de Bergerac, the main character is obviously named "Cyrano," the brainless guy is named "Christian," and the pretty girl is named "Roxanne." In "Let It Shine," the respective names are "Cyrus," "Kris," and (surprise, surprise) "Roxanne." Now I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. People re-make movies all the time. It's really not that big of a deal... But for some reason it bugs me that they twisted the classic story of Cyrano de Bergerac into a story about rap music, but didn't give any mention to where it came from... But anyway, as far as the quality of the movie, it wasn't the WORST thing Disney has come out with. By Disney standards, it's not bad, but when you compare Disney movies with real movies, that's not really saying much...
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