My Review

Rating: 6/10 (11 July 2008)

"Step Up 2" takes place in the same area the first one did. It centers around young street dancer Andie, who is roaming with a gang of street dancers known as the 410 who have been terrorizing the community.
Fed up with Andie's antics, her caretaker threatens to send her to her aunt's house in Texas if she doesn't shape up. With the help of her friend Chase, she gets into the prestigious dance school that the first movie centered around, and they try to polish her dancing skills, but she has street dancing in her blood.
She gathers the 'unknowns' - students in the school that the higher ups feel have no dancing talent - and forms her own street dance crew to go against the 410, and a dance battle ensues.
Sure, this movie has nothing to do with the Oscars, but it is an enjoyable film, 95% in part due to the fantastic dancing. It takes a lot of grit, determination and dedication to be such fantastic dancers, and these kids got the talent. That's what makes the "Step Up" movies - as well as other movies of this genre - so successful, and enjoyable.