Travers, Peter (January 12, 2001). "Save the Last Dance". Rolling Stone . Retrieved August 15, 2022. Hobbs, John (February 11, 2002). "Sound editors tap noms for Golden Reel Awards". Variety. Archived from the original on April 22, 2023 . Retrieved August 15, 2022.

More Music from the Motion Picture Save the Last Dance [ edit ] More Music from the Motion Picture Save the Last Dance Winners Database | American Music Awards". American Music Awards. Archived from the original on May 10, 2018 . Retrieved January 19, 2018. Canada's Top 200 Albums of 2001 (based on sales)". Jam!. Archived from the original on December 12, 2003 . Retrieved March 26, 2022. After learning what Chenille said to Sara, Derek confronts her about it, as well as explains his true reasons for dumping Nikki. Remorseful of her actions, Chenille admits that what she did was wrong and apologizes. She also tells Derek that Sara did not want to dump him, but Chenille's words hurt her to the point of feeling forced to. Writing for the Chicago Tribune, Mark Caro wrote, "On paper the movie is full of cliches recently explored elsewhere...Yet in this case the outline is not the story; the people who inhabit it are," and in this way, " Save the Last Dance triumphantly passes the audition." [14]

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In a three-star review, Roger Ebert said that despite the film's clichéd story and romance, "the development is intelligent, the characters are more complicated than we expect, and the ending doesn't tie everything up in a predictable way." [12] Charles Taylor of Salon wrote, "for all its dumb clichés it offers the basic appeal of teen movies: the pleasure of watching kids be kids, acting as they do among themselves instead of how parents and teachers expect them to act." [13] Additionally, the idea that outside of a movie plot an "audition" of such low caliber could get the dancer admitted to Juilliard is ludicrous. As Karla Rodriguez from Complex Magazine pointed out in a twenty-year retrospective of the movie: Seventeen-year-old Sara Johnson, a promising ballet dancer in suburban Chicago, hopes to be admitted to Juilliard School and implores her mother to attend the audition. She fails the audition and soon learns that her mother was killed in a car accident in her haste to get to it. Jury for NYC Web Series Festival". NYC Web Fest. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022 . Retrieved August 15, 2022. a b "Julia Stiles shares best part of making 'Save the Last Dance' 20 years later". TODAY.com. January 27, 2021. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022 . Retrieved August 15, 2022.

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A sequel to the film, titled Save the Last Dance 2, was released direct-to-video on October 10, 2006. Chenille invites Sara to a dance club called Stepps, where the latter has her first experience dancing to hip hop rhythms. At Stepps, Sara dances with Derek, Chenille's brother and a student with dreams of attending Georgetown University to become a pediatrician. Derek decides to help Sara develop her dancing skills by incorporating more hip hop into her style. a b Morris, Wesley (January 12, 2001). " 'Dance' Tries Hard to Be Hip and Fails Miserably". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022 . Retrieved August 15, 2022.Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de . Retrieved August 28, 2020. Derek takes a reluctant Sara to the Joffrey Ballet and, afterwards, she confides in him about her mother and her dreams. Later, they return to the club and amaze others with their dancing. While performing, Derek's ex-girlfriend Nikki interrupts them and begins dancing with Derek, making Sara retreat to the bar. Teen Choice Awards". Hollywood.com. August 12, 2001. Archived from the original on March 28, 2022 . Retrieved August 15, 2022. Caro, Mark (January 24, 2001). "Save the Last Dance". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on January 24, 2001 . Retrieved August 30, 2022– via Zap2It.com.