Step-Up 2: The Streets

[oakzap425]

wtf? Poor teens. If they think that's drama, they got a world of hurtin coming their way. :

 

[oakzap425]

wtf? Poor teens. If they think that's drama, they got a world of hurtin coming their way. :

 

[Hypestyle]

I wonder if anyone watched Breakin 1, 2, Krush Groove or Beat Street in research. Know your history.. (on a side note, it would have been interesting to get Adolpho Quinones and Michael Chambers to play some bit parts.)

I just saw this on TV, apparently syndicated for this weekend. It was surprisingly effective. It's clearly a formula film, broadly in the underdog-youth-team-of-misfits genre. Whatever the various plot holes, it is very professionally shot and put together. Excellent choreography and cinematography.

That the main point-of-view characters/romantic leads were Caucasian was somewhat to be expected for a major studio film. To the filmmakers credit, they did feature a multi-cultural cast, though only a few of the characters are given personalities.
It's unclear how much of her own dancing that Briana Evigan did, she's sympathetic enough as tough-but-sensitive Andie.

Some quibbles: Several of the characters here don't rise above stereotypes, (the talented dork Moose, the bullying rival crew leader Tuck.) It's curious that the director, John Chu, is Asian-American, and the one prominent Asian character is a foreign exchange student with a choppy accent who speaks in clipped catchphrases. And does anyone from the 'hood dance crews go to school at all? (To that point, I suppose it was nearly unavoidable, but many of the actors/dancers featured here skew too old to pass as current high school students. Though I'm sure this is neither here nor there with the target audience for the film.)

The final scene-- "..Everybody looking to catch pneumonia, say 'ho!!'"

 

[ShadowBoxer]

Not trying to be racist or anything ( I am black) but this movies are like the white people versions of You Got Served, Stomp the Yard. These movies are funny to watch if your bored and need something to laugh at. Like really, who in their right mind is gonna stop what they are doing and go break dance in a back alley in the rain LULZ.