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Step up, u got served, stomp the yard are all fake poser dancers. This March 21st a new dance movie is set to come out. But this is REAL dancers. Its a documentary about the subculture of Bboying. Movie is called "Planet B-Boy" It tells the story of Battle Of the Year. Check out "Planet B-Boy" on youtube. Its REAL bboys from All around the world. Its not a fake dancing s*** u see in Stomp the Yard.
Thank you for that. Because insulting something else is the best way to promote a product. I have no problem enjoying both.
I will never see this film. I have ZERO fascination with dancing, and I hate how the trailer makes the people in this movie seem OOZING WITH COOLNESS because they know how to shake their butt. Oh get a life....
Like whatever you want, but it's hypocritical for a comic book fan to accuse a dancer of wasting their life...
Regardless...
GL1 Review of Step Up 2 The Streets
Well, let me first tell you that it's better than the first one, if that means anything. I'll follow that up with the fact that it does have the best dance moves of recent dance movie memory.
But let's be honest, it is a dance movie. As such it carries all the contrivances in storytelling, all the deficient one-and-a-half threats, and all the ridiculous substitutions of choreography for freestyle dancing that we've come to expect from these posh-to-ghetto dance films. It's as though someone was dissatisfied with the balance between storytelling and dancing in say, Stomp The Yard, decided that all that storytelling was hogwash and heartfelt heritage pumping was garbage, and a 90-minute music video was a better idea. They did try to hearken back to the good old days of B-boy culture, however, it was more than drowned out by the slavish adherence to suburban-to-urban myth.
And so you've got six or seven very talented dancers doing what they do best, and when they're free to do their thing they shine. The freestyling scenes are as compelling as anything ever seen, but suddenly the movie makers take on immensely boar-fisted tactics of trying to turn Hip-Hop into line dancing and it feels... hollow. Weak. Soft. Lifeless. Soulless. What an incredible indictment to a movie who, equally ham-fisted, attempts to promote dance as a means of self expression while simultaneously forcing groups into narrow molds of symmetry.
But for just a few moments, these incredible dancers are allowed to just do their thing, and seeing it, is a wonderful experience for anyone who appreciates the art of the human body in motion. The credits, where each dancer is free to just be themselves, are as entertaining as any scene in the film, certainly more than the absurd love-pentagon. Ab-Surd.
3 stars out of 5.