A nice, but incredibly unsuccessful lawyer named Hwang (Hwang Jung-min, THE WAILING, DELIVER US FROM EVIL), and his beauty salon worker wife Uhm (Uhm Jung-hwa, OKAY! MADAM, PRINCESS AURORA) struggle to make ends meet, constantly having to borrow from family, and cut corners, simply to make rent. Then one day, a man falls off a subway platform, and Hwang, there waiting for the rail, jumps onto the tracks and saves him at the last minute. The next morning he is a social media hero, and targeted by politicians looking to run an unqualified dark-horse candidate to spark life into the upcoming election, and their preferred candidate. Soon, the ridiculed, poor, ultimately average everyman is running for Mayor of the city.
At the same time, Uhm, once in her youth an incredibly popular dancer at the local clubs with dreams of becoming a singer, has her dream re-ignited by a co-worker. Things escalate when she is singled out at a talent contest, and asked to join a "girl band" featuring older women, and winds up finding a modicum of success rather quickly..
As Hwang and Uhm's lives diverge, secrets build and tensions mount, and soon their world's are threatening to collide at the worst possible time.
Fun, more sentimental than actually romantic, as Hwang and Uhn are often not even on-screen together, their characters off on their own arcs, rather than having an immediate on-screen chemistry, which the actors do share when they finally do have scenes together, proven if anything by the fact this is their third teeming in a romance. DANCING QUEEN is decent, goofy fun, and should make fans of these types of films smile.
- 6.5/10
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