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Saw this movie in a sneak preview last night. It was so full of dance movie clichés that I thought for a moment it was made by the same guys that do the Scary Movie series. I ran a mental checklist in my mind and it hit nearly every single one I could think of. But, in the end, it was cute and actually had a few laugh out loud lines or moments. The dancing was fun. One particular dance scene when all the Performing Arts students let loose at a party was exhilarating. I wanted to be in that group having a good time. At any time when there's no dancing going on, the movie slides into mediocrity and sub-par acting. Watch the extras in the background. Man, do they overdo it! But when the music starts, you just want to get up and move.

Step Up was quite honestly painful to watch. The movie perhaps one of the most cliché and predictable and boring story lines i have ever seen (some awkward cross between Fame, Save the Last Dance, with an extra helping of teen angst and of course more cliché). Even some plot sequences seemed not to be plausible or were completely inconsequential to the story line. In addition, the performances by the actors were by all means not their best performances (aided by a particularly terse screenplay). To round out the picture, the directing and cinematography was at times quite distracting from film. Sure it was a dance movie, but if you want to see good dancing it would be well worth your time to watch for something else watch something else.

Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan are hot hot hot. Absurdly pretty, and they can both dance. While a teen dance movie was not my #1 choice, it was a pretty enjoyable film. No big surprises, but it fulfilled what it set out to do with admirable skill and pace. The 'white-boy hood' character threads were well executed by the extremely handsome Tatum- as the 'White Hood Kid' can be a character that is very hard to swallow and easy to play terribly. While there is lots of dancing, there is not so much that the whole film feels like a support structure to display dancing, which would bore me to tears. Mario is interesting to watch and has good arcs. I have a crush on Rachel Griffiths so I'm biased there, but one of the few faults in the movie is her character evolves unrealistically... she develops into a place of compassion from one of hate without much to make that change. All and all, a surprisingly fun movie.

This movie is boring, stupid and just predictable. I have seen hundreds of movie just like this and this movie had a terrible plot and just pain full to sit there and watch the movie. The dance was OK, the acting was bad, the plot was garbage and the whole movie was predictable. It was as if I had all ready saw it and walked out. I would say 70% of the people watching this movie with me walked out. I recommend bringing a pillow and a blanket to the movie in case you fall asleep like the majority of the people did. It did so bad in fact that the movie theaters as already stop playing it in under a week. I wouldn't want to see anyone else waist their money on this movie. This movie is nothing but for low self esteem teenagers and for geeks. No wonder none of the critics liked it. Be smart save your money.

I enjoyed watching this movie with my four teens. I showed how teens can turn their life around no matter what type of situation that they are in. It also showed how different classes in society can come together and help one another. The inner city kids tend to get a bad wrap a lot of the time, and it was good to see some of them come out on top. It was also AWESOME to see how the music and art program in the middle of a busy town can help redirect a youth's focus. We need more schools of the arts in our cities. I wish that congress would grab a hold of this concept and stop cutting our education budget for our children. Because the children of our generation and the ones to come are the future, and by the looks of it we are going to be in trouble.

'Take Fame' and 'You've Got Served' and roughly jam them together and what do you got? This God awful movie custom made for dull-normal adolescents. The plot very closely follows 'You've Got Served.' Three ghetto afro-teeners, this time living in John Water's Baltimore—not far from 'Peckers' home—spend their time getting failing grades in high school and dancing in dilapidated 100-year-old buildings with hoochy-mamas. To finance their expensive baggy hip-hop clothing tastes, they steal cars and deliver them to the local chop shop—not unlike John (Tony Manaro) Travolta who worked in a Brooklyn paint store so he could purchase his polyester disco clothes. Tyler Gage, one of the black three musketeers, gets caught trashing the local Fame High School and is forced to perform janitorial duties. He meets Nora Clark, a 26-year-old white high school student and discovers he's Irish-American, much to the chagrin of his black buddies Mac and Skinny. As in 'You've Got Served' crime doesn't pay and Skinny, the youngest member of the trio gets shot by a Bad Bad Leroy Brown type—but that doesn't stop the music—and heart-stopping finale.

In Baltimore, the troublemaker and street dancer Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) lives with his foster parents in an Afro-American lower class neighborhood. His best friends are Mac Carter (Damaine Radcliff) and his little brother Skinny Carter (De'Shawn Washington) and they use to hang around together, going to parties and stealing cars. After being expelled of a party, the trio breaks in the Maryland School of Arts and commits vandalism, destroying the stage. Tyler is arrested and sentenced to 200 hours of community service in the school and Director Gordon (Rachel Griffiths) assigns him to help the janitor cleaning the place. One afternoon, the ballet dancer Nora Clark (Jenna Dewan) sees Tyler dancing in the parking area and when her partner Andrew (Tim Lacatena) has a strain and Tyler offers to help her in the choreography, she accepts the offer; they rehearsal and become close to each other while Tyler becomes friend of the students Miles Darby (Mario) and Lucy Avila (Drew Sidora). When Andrew returns, Tyler that is known for quitting everything he starts gives up dancing and leaves Nora alone. After an incident, Tyler has to decide to follow his dream or return to his life of rebel loser. "Step Up" was a wonderful and delightful surprise for me. The heartwarming romantic story shows a perfect chemistry between Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan, supported by a magnificent cast and awesome songs and choreographies of dance. There are also drama and tragedy, funny moments and I recalled Alan Parker's "Fame" and "Center Stage" with the students following their dreams in an art school. The characters are nice, the actors and actresses are excellent and I have really loved this movie. My vote is eight. Title (Brazil): "Ela Dança, Eu Danço" ("She Dances, I Dance")