![]() ![]() Tony Bellissimo (Step Up 3D, Step Up: Revolution) Marc ‘Marvelous’ Inniss (Step Up: Revolution) The Santiago Twins: Martin Lombard & Facundo Lombard (Step Up 3D) Vladd aka Robot Guy: Chadd Smith (Step Up 3D, Step Up: Revolution) Monster: Luis Rosado (Step Up 2 The Streets, Step Up 3D) Hair: Chris Scott (Step Up 2 The Streets, Step Up 3D) ![]() Jenny Kido: Mari Koda (Step Up 2 The Streets, Step Up 3D, Step Up: Revolution) Jason: Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss (Step Up 3D, Step Up: Revolution) Moose: Adam Sevani (Step Up 2 The Streets, Step Up 3D, Step Up: Revolution)Įddy: Misha Gabriel (Step Up: Revolution)Ĭamille: Alyson Stoner (Step Up, Step Up 3D) The film is set in glittering Las Vegas, where the crew will be battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.”Īndie: Briana Evigan (Step Up 2 The Streets) “This new installment in the Step Up movie franchise brings together stars from earlier films. It also has a choice soundtrack, spiced by the likes of Missy Elliott’s “Shake Your Pom Pom” and Digital Underground’s immortal “Humpty Dance.” The best of “Step Up 2” really does smell like teen spirit, even if many of its performers have been out of school for a while.We’ve got our hands on the first official pictures of Step Up 5 aka Step Up All In, the upcoming dance drama movie directed by Trish Sie: Human-spirit clichés and all, the movie accomplishes job one: It moves. (The recent and very good “How She Move” was a rare exception to the general rule, with the dancers showing off their wares in longer-than-usual takes.)Ĭhu shoots the movie every which way, heavy on the extreme telephoto imagery (for “maximum realism,” or something), but clearly he loves his performers. The choreography draws on break-dancing, hip-hop, salsa and more, and while too much of it’s sliced up into the usual teeny pieces on screen, well. Chu’s primary camera subject in repose or on the move. Her voice strikingly like Demi Moore’s, Evigan serves as director Jon M. (Andie’s guardian, played by Sonja Sohn of “The Wire,” can’t control the dancing fool and threatens to ship her off to Texas.) But Evigan doesn’t force the snark, or the melodrama. The way Andie’s written, she’s all defensive sarcasm. Not that anyone goes to these things for the acting, but Evigan is easy company and a considerable jump up from the first film’s leads. The multiethnic “410” gang, known for its prankish hit-and-run choreographic dazzle on subways and the like, needs all the bodies it can get to compete in “The Streets,” a battle of the hip-hop all-stars. Andie’s street crew, meanwhile, doesn’t like this new, snooty version of the girl they knew. If Andie can make it at the arts school, while partnering with golden boy Chase (Robert Hoffman), she can make it anywhere. In place of “Step Up’s” sullen white boy learning to adapt his moves while wowing the conservatory crowd, “Step Up 2 the Streets” features strapping Briana Evigan as Andie, a sullen white girl who learns to adapt her moves while wowing the conservatory crowd. But really, it pretty much is “High School Musical,” with a rough edge or two. The film occasionally talks tough - “This ain’t ‘High School Musical’!” disses the roving DJ when our heroine and her misfit cohorts come up short in their first street effort. The film glides from the Baltimore subway to the classrooms of the Maryland School of the Arts (think “Fame,” if you must) to a backyard salsa dance to the climactic, rain-soaked street dance competition, all hot lights and triumph. ![]() It’s just as cornball as “Step Up” (2006), but it’s more fun - more of a full-on dance musical, its plot a mere slip of a thing designed to whisk you to the next excuse for another choreographic and ab-centric display. Providing you’re not hip-hop- or cliché-averse, see “Step Up 2 the Streets” with the right expectations and you’ll be pleasantly surprised. ![]()
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