It amazes me that he's ashamed of his stellar performance and doesn't credit himself with it.

I love this song! One of the best in the whole movie!

Christian Bale is amazing!! i cried the first time i heard him sing this. :)

I kick up dust after Manhattan rainstorms during my random solo dance sequences, too.

this muscial is by far one of the best out there. The dances and all outmatch west side story, and the wiz for me!

Never gets old.

I Love this movie! :-) Now a Broadway musical!

CHRISTIAN BALE AND THIS MOVIE RUUULLLEE!!! BEST DISNEY MUSICAL OF THE 90'S!!!!!!!!!

It ended before the best part! Jack: Hey Race Racetrack: hey Jack Jack: how was your day at the track? Race: remember that hot tip I told ya about? Jack: yeah Race: yeah well no one told the horse

The only reason this movie failed at the box office was because it had bad timing. no body wanted to watch a movie musical in the early ninties that wasnt a disney princess movie. If they put this movie out today, im pretty sure it would be really popular

you know he originally learned a lasso dance for this number, and he spent like a month learning it and they CUT IT OUT at the last minute! Thumbs up if you would've loved to see Batman lasso dance!

Im 19 now, 12 years younger than this movie. This song was my childhood, and no matter how much i love jeremy jordan, i cant listen to the Broadway version because the lyrics are wrong to my brain

2:15 starts the best 10 seconds of footage ever filmed ever.

he has a really great voice, and he is cute. lol. luv his part

It IS really popular now. It's on BROADWAY now!!

LOVEEE HIM

@TwillyTwills It's Horace Greeley, the journalist and author, that put the idea in Jack Kelly's mind. If you recall, the opening shot in the movie is of a plaque beneath the statue of Greeley in the square outside the "The New York World." The plaque bears the famous quotation, "Go west, young man." The saying was an important part of American history and of the closing of the American frontier.

he's pretty good, i never would have guessed he could sing

This is when I fell enlove with Christian Bale. The best cast. So many amazing dancers and actors: Brian F, Kevin S,Dominic L, Ivan D ,Aaron Lohr, Trey Parker.......

@julezsnight Actually, he knows where is family is. Mum's dead, Dad's in jail. I think the question Mezi was actually asking was why did they pick Santa Fe of all places, why not just California or something? And to answer the question, I'm guessing it's simply because there were several popular comic books out at the time about the cowboys. They even gave Jack one of these books to add to his character. Plus, the West was still full of adventure at the time, and he just wanted out of New York

I had a crush on Christian Bale when I was younger because of this movie. =)

"Go west, young man." - Horace Greeley

CHRISTIAN BALE, I LOVE YOU!

Love this song!!! Anyone know how old Bale was when this was made?... I know his character is 17.

@Elaizzle This film only got a bad rep because it failed at a box office but I agree that it is a brilliant film and Christian should not put it down , never understood it myself!

Oh, Kenny Ortega, what would Batman be doing without you?

Cute

@mezipe64 Because he thinks his parents are living there, trying to find a place to live, he just wants to go home with his parents, and....it rhymes with the rest of the song :D

@mezipe64 jack wants to go to Santa Fe because (earlier in the film) Jack tells David that his parents went there [Santa Fe] to find land there to live on, and he said that they were going to call for him to join them on their new home.

@MaddCowProductions yeah, but with that argument, he easialy could have wanted to go to "San Jose" or "Noraway" or "Zimbabwe" xD

@mezipe64 If you listen to the rest of the song, he's saying that he needs space, and he wants to get away. :o

So many people seem to miss the connection.

batman had such hard life when he was younger

He doenst suck?!!! where did u get that from???

@bluedragon1616 oh yeahh didnt he practice like super hard for that

@tyler1234321 lol, i tried to do that in my living room and all i did was succeed in knocking over a chair and hurting myself :D

@mezipe64 his parents told him thats where they were going when they ditched.

Hey that's my horse! girls: omg i ♥ christian bale since batman me: pssshhhh i liked him since the newsies girls: the wha-? me: ಠ_ಠ

....so he just like, stole that guys horse?

Man went to Gotham

@fun4everyonebutyou actually he took a 10 week dance boot camp

@mezipe64 Have you seen "Newsies"?

@JennaisMrsK2 Because he's known as cowboy. Sooo I think he's interested in that kind of lifestyle and it's more laid back than New York. I don't know, just an idea.

@tyler1234321 no, because he doesn't pelvic thrust. xD

Yup thats Batman

@keesto its a old movie

@Chocolateloveeexoxo oh i know, I was only joking.

@mezipe64 So that he can be a real cowboy!

why do you think Jack wants to go to Santa Fe?

@cholatepuge I know right! xP

1 person is lonely

@thinkpink513 i think about the same, 17 or 18

@mobers11 eeehhh, that's kind of an overstatement. part of it had to do with simply a bad storyline, and bad performances by great actors (sorry, but Christian Bale DID say he hated this movie). But hey, it's a cult classic now, right?

@JoeJonasfriend ya totaly!!!!!!! hahhahah lol

ok who has a horse in NYC???

@JennaisMrsK2 Haha alright

Or because he wants a farm there!!! Which is always possible

The musical has nothing compared to the this

@cholatepu HAHAHHAHAHAHHA SOOO

1 person is lonely and has no family!

@mezipe64 he needs a new start at life

As My sister calls it: The solo noone cares about. However I highly suspect that if it was sung by someone who wasn't Jack she'd love it........ She doesn't Like Jack for some reason....

@fun4everyonebutyou r u kidding my brother could do better than that and u should see him

The set looks soooo stupid and fake. Why is the horse so clean? And why doesn't he ever close his mouth?