'Holiday Spin' review: Macchio, not much else

He can't dance. Don't ask him.

Oh. Wait. When Dad's studio is about to go under, and his prize female pupil (Allie Bertram, "So You Think You Can Dance Canada") needs a partner for a big-money Christmas competition, broody son must search his soul, and his soles, to pick a path toward adulthood.

MY SAY It's got to be hard to come up with a new holiday movie script these days, considering how quickly the likes of Lifetime and Hallmark Channel keep chewing through Christmas concepts. "Holiday Spin" takes a spin on a dance theme that brings some freshness.

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But the story's incidents, dialogue and direction prove disappointingly predictable, from the early tragedy that sets the plot in motion, to the dancers' personal feuds, to the big you've-pushed-me-so-far-I-must-pummel-you confrontation. Of course, "It's never too late to try to make things right." Because "Everything happens for a reason." (And why set the story in Miami, when it's clearly shot in Canada? Gray light. Dead giveaway.)