Great Dance Movie

Rating: 6/10 (12 March 2008)

If you are a teenager and you have already seen Step Up, then you already know about the sequel Step Up 2 The Streets and I am damn sure you have already seen the trailer...well the wait is finally over. The second part meet us again with the infamous Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) and his already grown up sister Andie (Briana Evigan), who is trying to put the troubled teenager in the right path by arranging an audition for her in the Maryland School of Arts. The following events are teenage movie by the book . There is the coolest guy in the school, Chase Collins (Robert Hoffman) that happens to be the brother of one of the founders of the school and the best dancer there as well. He is a street dancer in disguise who finds a mutual friend in the face of Andie. Andie is a talented brake-dancer, part of a street crew, which compete (surprise!) on the streets, and is torn between them and the school she have to attend in order to prevent being sent to some aunt in Texas. There is a spark between her and Chase as you might guess. The characters are a bit shallow, the plot is as predictable as Sunday morning and as good as the acting is it does not seem convincing at all. The reasons the characters follow and the way they develop are not quite clear. Andie's character seems like a rebel without a cause, because the battle they are trying to win has already been won in the first Step Up movie. It is not all bad though. There are a lot of other fresh new faces and a witty dialogue here and there and absolutely breathtaking dancing sequences . The first 10 minutes in the movie and they are dancing it off on the underground train. Throughout the whole movie the weepy little dialogues and little moral conversations are conveniently tucked between outstanding dance routines. They are vivid, dynamic and different. This is a dance movie and when it comes to that it delivers one hundred per cent.