Fletchers "Step Up" will have you wanting to dance!

Rating: 8/10 (13 August 2006)

Step Up is one dance movie that delivers the goods!.
"Step Up" is about a white boy who lived in a hood, Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum), who has a unique street dance talent. After vandalizing a bunch of props on a Performing Art schools stage, he is sentenced to 200 hours of community service to the Maryland School of the Arts. During his service time, a girl named Nora (Jenna Darwin) dance partner has an accident and can no longer dance, she seeks to find a replacement to practice for her senior showcase till her partner recovers. Many boys audition, but none make the cut. Tyler offers to do it, and is quickly accepted. Tyler, who has spent most of his life not pursuing anything, starts to see what he has gotten himself into is something that he loves to do and he needs to step up and fight for it.
I was completely surprised on how much I enjoyed this movie. I have never really been a big fan of dance movies even though I am a dancer. The acting is good, but not great. But boy can these actors dance. My hats off to Anne Fletcher for her fantastic choreographing job on the dance sequences and her debut as a director. This film is very entertaining. The story can be slow at parts, but for being a dance film it's pretty good, plus there is tons of humor. I also like the fact there is not a bunch of that gangster talk, very little swearing, and very little, if any, sexual references. However, there is some gang related talk, activity, and also a drive-by shooting. The music in the film is also very unique in it's own right. For the genre that it is (dancing), I give it a 8/10 rating. I loved this show and can' t wait to see it again.