How many versions have I seen of this?

Rating: 2/10 (17 February 2008)

And everything, just about everything is predictable. I volunteered to watch this, so we could all take a breath between riveting episodes of "The Wire" and I must admit to having loads of fun with it, much to the annoyance of the child in my life who had given it a whole 6 on her 10 gauge. At the end of the watching, I had given it a 1. So we split the rating here. Some of the dance sequences are fun and skilled. But the awful awful awful script with the characters as thin as tissue paper and the death of one main character was signalled from two miles away. And on.
This review said it best:
'Non-story' ... Step Up
Another West Side Non-Story, scoring low on the raunch-o-meter. Jenna Dewan is the Wasp dance student at a Fame-style school who gets the hots, or rather the certificate-PG family-friendly tepids, for a tough guy with dancing skills from the wrong side of the tracks, played by Channing Tatum. These supposedly physical young people are evidently content with kissing and contain themselves as chastely as Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson. For tweenie sleepovers only.
I am long past being a tweenie and my sleepovers rarely involve movies. 2 out of 10 for the dancing. Poor Rachel Griffith taking on a job like this! EWWW!