A combination music video/teen soap opera, Making the Right Choice opens with a blitz of statistics about teen pregnancy and STD's and then serves up a series of obvious dramatic skits that might be termed Days of Our Lives: The Teen Years. Intercut with the scenarios, host and songwriter Tommy Gee and fellow dancers run through routines that look like a rehearsal for Fame. The music is good, the dancing is excellent, and the points are...well...lost. In one of the skits, for example, a couple argue about chlamydia--but the program neither defines nor explains chlamydia, and the intended viewers are unlikely to know a whole lot about the subject beforehand. I'm not convinced that stereotypical skits that have all the deep resonance of daytime TV and bouncy tunes about sex ed are the best tools for teaching teens about something as important as sexual risks. Not a necessary purchase. (R. Pitman)
Making the Right Choice
(1993) 15 min. $49 (discussion guide included). Beacham Publishing. PPR. Vol. 9, Issue 2
Making the Right Choice
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