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After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.
Release : | 2007 |
Rating : | 5.4 |
Studio : | Rainforest Entertainment, Screen Gems, |
Crew : | Production Design, Set Decoration, |
Cast : | Columbus Short Meagan Good Ne-Yo Darrin Henson Jermaine Williams |
Genre : | Drama Music |
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Lack of good storyline.
A lot of fun.
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
If you have seen any sort of dancing or cheerleader movie you will always be three steps ahead of the plot. It's a simple story of an angry outcast who attends a new school and stirs up trouble. He immediately becomes sexually attracted (yes sexually attracted, the romance is extremely superficial) to a girl at his school, and develops a vendetta against some guy and by extension his entire frat basically because the guy is going out with the hot girl. He chooses not to accept their apology and so we have this movie, and our "hero". Somehow after this point, the plot keeps getting less and less interesting and progressively worse, until the credits role and we raise our hands in thanks. The one redeeming quality this movie has is the dancing. If you have a legitimate interest in dancing this movie might not be the tedious experience it is for most people. Chris Brown, the frats, and Columbus Short present very good dance moves, but between those dance moves there's very little that inspires or interests the viewer.In summary the plot is horrible, but the dancing is good. Don't buy the DVD.
How predictable can a film be? How bad can acting be? How predictable can a plot be? This film answers these questions and more!Five minutes into this movie and I was ready to turn it off, but no, I decided to give it a chance. There were interesting bits here and there but overall it was just bad.I could go into detail as many of the other reviewers did, but why waste your time. This film had no redeeming qualities.Maybe it can be used as a film to demonstrate how not to make a good movie.This may be the worst film ever made. Well, maybe the second worst film, there was "2 Fast 2 Furious".
I give it a 2 because there have been worse movies. But, for the most part it was really bad. That being said, if you are a young teen who is into movies like "You Got Served" (which definitely rates a 1 as one of the worst ever), you will like this movie. Granted, the film is not full of really good actors either. Sure, Chris Brown is in it, but, that may be it's only highlight. Even he fails to perform up to snuff, but, he did have a few good moments. There were a few steps that were good, but, there wasn't anything really unique. In fact, the front step kick in Karate Kid was a lot more unique than anything I saw in here for it's time. Roller dancing films, break dancing films and now this film. That's what type of film it was.
I'm often baffled at the ratings that some of the movies end up with out here. This movie is far better than a 3+. Unfortunately, I didn't catch the very beginning, but what I did see was entertaining and well-acted, just what one would usually expect from a film of any sort. Sure, the story's been told, as most stories have, but they all have something a little unique to offer. The dance sequences weren't necessarily awe-inspiring, but they also weren't drawn out so long as to bore you. All in all, I enjoyed this picture. My perspective comes from that of a middle-aged white guy, so it might be quite different from yours.