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A movie desperately in search of a script. Instead it throws us straight into dance after dance, trying to fill in the void with action. For what little plot there is "Streetdance" tells about a group of young streetdancers led by Carly (Nichola Burly), who in order to compete at UK championships agree to train and include in their troupe five ballet dancers in exchange for access to a dance-floor at the local academy. Wait! Hasn't the street dance meets ballet motive been done to death by now? It's almost as if creators of such dance flicks pretend that this is the final frontier in dance. Populated by former contestants of various dance based reality shows the movie seems to focused on having each of them stamp their presence. One of special note is George Sampson, who gets a pointless role in the movie aimed solely at garnering his "Britain's Got Talent" fame. He isn't the only participant of that programme with such creds with roles for the Diversity and Flawless crews. Most of the acting is passable, albeit Nichola Burly (supposedly one of the few professional actors on board) is uninspiring and unable to keep the interest of the viewer. With the flimsy script and poor lead you actually wish for them to stop talking and do another umpteenth dance routine. However all the dancing is top-notch with some really exceptional sets (I fail however to understand the fuss behind Sampson, who seems to not be quite there yet). Especially the Flawless crew is 100% worthy of their name. Hence - despite all the clichés - "Streetdance" manages to overcome its shortcomings with some energetic, forceful in-your-face choreography. One of the best scenes has the street crew trying to introduce their ballet partners to the raw basics of what they do - everything from breakbeat to krumping is given a nod. SPOILER: The constant problems of similar movies is the use of professional crews as the 'opposition', while our heroes are a rag-tag group of actors, semi-pro dancers and some random pros. Streetdance deals with this by having Flawless do a sub-par performance, when it matters, while absolutely owning the screen in all other previous scenes. This actually made the imperfect final routine by our protagonists look better than it actually was. That did however make the final dance sequences one of the worst in the whole movie. All in all a worthy watch for dance flick lovers, so despite the low ratings handed out due to the flimsy script, I positive a lot of people will be pouring some well-deserved love on this movie for the spunk and power of the dances.

The plot was well followed sequentially through out, however the plot is similar to others that have been done before. What this movie does offer is candy for the eyes and inspiration in terms of dance, particularly with the dance sequences at the beginning and during the movie. A MUST SEE in the cinemas… Especially in 3D, the combination of music and dance in this film is unlike all the others I've seen, a fresh new take... UK style! In terms of characters for this film, they were interesting, and the acting abilities of the dancer/actors are like other dance movies.. where the acting skills are something still to be acquired fully. I'm certainly buying this when it is out on DVD, as a great future reference point for dance moves and choreography.

I was really entertained when I watched this in the cinema. The story is nice enough (yes clichés ahead, but it's a picture about dancing, about overcoming odds, you expect it to have a few), with obstacles build in the way, that you will expect and predict, but all told nicely. And it did not originate from the US, which came as a surprise to me (since almost every dance movie minus the Bollywood fare, seems to be made in the US)! I liked the acting (for the movie that it is) and the dance scenes were good enough, to be told in 3-D. Though I have to admit, that there are a few sequences in the new Step up, that easily put anything to shame that is shown here. But in contrast to that, the story here is more solid, more believable (in my eyes). Nice entertainment and unfortunately overseen at the Box office (at least that's what I heard)

"Streetdance," to an extent, shares the same problem as other movies about dance. When the first dance movie (which was probably "Save the Last Dance) appeared, it seemed fresh and original not least of all because of the choreographed dance routines. But now the genre of dance films can do little more than repeat the same formula and the result is a bit tedious. Incidentally I had a similar reaction to the martial arts films. The first Karate Kid was great from beginning to end. But the spectacle and energy of these martial arts film soon faded and even the attempts to spice up the genre with explosions and shoot outs did not quite work. So does "Streetdance" suffer from this trend? Yes. But does "Streetdance" also make up for this fact? To a surprising degree, it does. There is not too much to be said for the plot which is riddled with so many clichés, including the climatic little dance battle at the end, that it appeared to be recycled from the "Step Up" genre. Yet it is fresh in some respects. Nichola Burley, for example, brought something new to her performance as the head of the streetdance group Carly who also has to help ballet dancers bring some fire to their performances. Nichola is genuinely likable, sweet and fun all at the same time and these traitsallow her to get away with saying some very ridiculous grandstanding speeches like (I'm paraphrasing) we are going to combine ballet and street dance and "create something beautiful." If a lesser actor, like Amanda Seyfried, Megan Fox or even Kat Dennings, spoke like that, it would never seem believable. But Nichola miraculously makes scenes like that work. Nichola is also aided along the way by other likable characters like the implied love interest Tomas (Richard Winsor). Charlotte Rampling, who played one of the heads of ballet school Helena Fitzgerald, delivers the kind of great performance one would expect from someone with her calibre, even though she is unfortunately not given much to say or do. "Streetdance" also has some memorable scenes, such as the one where two street dancers pretending to be manniquins communicate with a little boy, who is also a great street dancer, through the medium of dance. Another memorable scene has Carly and her co-worker turning their mundane job of making sandwiches into a dance routine, which was kind of neat. 6.3/10

You may have seen the Julia Stiles film Save the Last Dance, well this is pretty much the same premise, but concentrating on the modern street dance theme in Britain. Basically, in inner London, young dance choreographer Carly (Nichola Burley) has her street dance crew Jay 2 O, formed with her boyfriend Jay (Ukweli Roach) who has decided to move on, causing tension to break up. They also lose their place to practise, meaning they need to raise money for a real location before the big Streetdance competition final. Then Carly finds the local ballet school, and get the place for practise with permission from teacher Helena (Charlotte Rampling). There is only one condition to adhere to keep the room for practise, Carly and the gang must help train the original ballet dancers of the classroom to join their crew. Carly slowly starts to fall for training and skilled ballet dancer Tomas (Richard Winsor), who sticks up for her when they come face to face with a nasty and betraying Jay. It is after this encounter that Carly decides they should not try to pretend anything but what they are, doing ballet or street dance or whatever, they should bring the two together in a new and inventive routine. The competition final is announced to be the day of the Royal Ballet auditions for students, and the crew, with new name Breaking Point, try to compromise their way to do both. There is a little delay waiting for Tomas and the other ballet students, but wannabe street dancer Eddie (George Sampson) gives them some time, and they win the competition with a fantastic mix of street and ballet. Also starring Frank Harper as Fred, Eleanor Bron as Madame Fleurie, Patrick Baladi as Mr. Harding, Jeremy Sheffield as Michael, Teneisha Bonner as Shawna, Rachel McDowall as Isabella, Diversity's Ashley Banjo as Aaron, Flawless as The Surge and Jocelyn Jee Esien as Delilah. When you have brilliant acts like George Sampson, Flawless and Diversity, all from Britain's Got Talent, in the cast doing their stuff, you know you are going to have yourself a good film-going experience. The soundtrack, with songs like Tinie Tempah - "Pass Out", Ironik feat. Elton John - "Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer)", Aggro Santos feat. Kimberly Wyatt - "Candy", Wiley - "Wearing My Rolex, N-Dubz - "Strong Again" and Madcon - "Beggin'" was also an inspired choice. I didn't think it was too littered with stereotypes, I will admit apart from the food fight you forgot it was a 3D film, but overall, hardly any annoying breakaway from the key focus, it's almost all dance, dance, DANCE, it is definitely a dance drama film you won't be disappointed with. Very good!

This movie is a big waste of time , the story is looks like Step Up , a Street Dance Crew training in ballet school and some ballet dancers join the crew , the only new thing here is Ballet Dance . I have some notes you might find it useful : 1- I think Street Dance must be on Hip Hop music but I don't know what the director was thinking by making them dance on this music , awful . 2- You can't compare this with Step Up , the dance is not good , and the story is not good as Step Up . 3- The Romance in this movie is really disappointing . I think they was trying to create something new , by mixing Ballet Dance with Street Dance , but I think they fail .

firstly i'd like to say, like most people on here, i am a huge movie fan and have seen a huge amount of films of all different genres. i am a dancer myself and have always loved dance films ever since watching dirty dancing when i was little, i think i have pretty much watched all of them. so when i heard about streetdance, actually a British film i thought, great, after all there is a lot of amazing UK dance talent. i was sadly very disappointed. don't get me wrong the dancing was great, with a lot of reality TV (britains got talent) stars. but this wasn't a TV program it was supposed to be a blockbuster film with a story to connect the dancing scenes. i personally would have liked to have skipped through all the acting. it was that bad. i was actually physically cringing in parts- the ballet dancers were soo clichéd i actually laughed, all the dialogue seemed robotic with them and the lead actress. the most charismatic star would be george sampson, who forgive me i'm wrong, has never acted before!! although the dancing was great, it was no more creative or outstanding than i have seen on TV shows. i have seen better choreography and wow factor in other dance films. serious lack of creativity. most dance films nowadays are pretty similar story-wise but i just felt this could have been so much better, instead of just feeling like an insanely predictable poor (British) man's step up 2. the lead actress just didn't feel edgy or believable, it felt like she was a nice northern girl pretending to be 'street'. they could have gone for a real urban London feel- a crew from a rough part of London maybe trying to escape. maybe drugs/crime being a factor- anything more imaginative than this!! also the ending would never happen so it makes the film seem silly. best parts- soundtrack- great British music.