Better than the Step Up?

Rating: 7/10 (28 August 2008)

I don't know about that...but it had its own edge and the dancing was, as they say, SICK.
Premise: Tyler's (Channing Tatum from Step Up in a cameo)foster sister has grown up and her mother has died leaving her with her mother's friend to raise. Andie runs the streets with the 410 (dance) crew and constantly gets into trouble and could be shipped off to Texas...oh, no!! Tyler gets her an audition at his alma mater the Maryland School for the Arts and fish-out-of-water-clashes ensue.
As I like to say, the movie has heart and that counts for a lot. Plus, the dancing is sick. They definitely know how to take a basic girl-meets-guy-but-can't-be-together plot and make it work even if it's pretty standard stuff.
The best was seeing Jabbawokeez, winners of he first "season" of America's Best Dance Crew.
An epic dance crew competition started from this movie on YouTube between Miley Cyrus and her friend and Adam Sevani who played Moose. Just for that, it's a pop culture phenomenon.