From Step Up to Save The Last Dance, the early noughties were dance movie heaven - and 2003's Honey, directed by Billie Woodruff, deserves a place among the greats.
There's low-slung denim. There's Jessica Alba at the peak of her career. There's Missy Elliott bossing dance auditions in a flat cap. There's Christina Aguilera belting out Soar on the movie soundtrack.
And now, you can experience the dance flick on Netflix. That's our evening sorted, then.
As fans of the movie will remember, the plot follows 22-year-old New Yorker Honey Daniels (Alba) as she dreams of making it big as a hip hop choreographer.
Honey juggles jobs as a bartender, record store assistant and a dance teacher at a local community centre, where she teaches dance classes as a way to keep kids off the streets. Cue a whole lot of slick group dance sequences.
Fast forward and Honey finds herself meeting big-deal director Michael Ellis (David Moscow), who casts her in one of his music videos.
Things look like they are on the up, but when Michael begins sexually harassing Honey, she makes a decision that changes the course of her life.
From the fashion to the performances from hip hop royalty (hi, Missy!), Honey is a blast of noughties nostalgia, and still holds its own with its slick, sexy choreography.
The movie is a reminder of a time when music videos had colossal budgets and having a director wasn't enough - they had to be a big name.
Beyond the dance moves, there's plenty of twenty-something soul searching too, as Honey flits between hitting downtown clubs with her friends and managing the expectations of her mother, who wants her to teach ballet in an Uptown School.
No wonder the movie fuelled a sequel, Honey 2, released in 2011 and also directed by Billie Woodruff.
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This original is just what we need to get us warmed up for next summer's dance movie musical In The Heights.
Netflix, take us back to the noughties.
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