To say this film (and any other dancing competition film) is formulaic is an understatement. However, formalism is entirely forgivable when you look at the marketplace.
Step Up 2 the Streets (2008)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:15
Rotten:42
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: There's a kinetic appeal to the handsome cast and their smooth moves, but everything else about Step Up 2 the Streets is been there, danced that.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for language, some suggestive material and brief violence.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Feb 14, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $58,006,147
Synopsis: Jon Chu directs this feel-good sequel about pursuing what you love and finding yourself along the way. Andie (Briana Evigan, daughter of actor Greg Evigan) is a tough Baltimore teen who grew up... Jon Chu directs this feel-good sequel about pursuing what you love and finding yourself along the way. Andie (Briana Evigan, daughter of actor Greg Evigan) is a tough Baltimore teen who grew up dancing and is now part of the 410, the hottest dance crew in the city and reigning champions of the Streets, an underground dance competition. Unable to control Andie's rebellious ways, her guardian, Sarah (Sonja Sohn), has decided to send her to Texas to live with her aunt. But Andie has one last chance to stay with her crew in her beloved Baltimore: the Maryland School of the Arts (MSA). Unfortunately, maintaining her studies at MSA means less time with the 410. To make matters worse, Andie is having a hard time fitting in at her new high school, where tradition is revered and being outside the box is frowned upon. Luckily, she has a partner in crime in classmate Chase Collins (Robert Hoffman), whose stuffy brother, Blake (Will Kemp), is the school's director and a constant thorn in his younger brother's side. When the 410 boots Andie out, she and Chase find their own crew of overlooked MSA dancers and take it all the way to the Streets. The real star of STEP UP 2: THE STREETS is the amazing dancing and there's plenty of it. From the opening scene in a Baltimore subway to the playground to studio rehearsals to the Streets, these kids give it everything they've got. Channing Tatum briefly reprises his role as Tyler Gage, who knows Andie from the neighborhood. All of the MSA and 410 dancers are exceedingly talented, but Mari Koda's few lines as Jenny Kido are scene-stealers. [More]
Starring: Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Will Kemp, Cassie Ventura
Starring: Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Will Kemp, Cassie Ventura, Adam G. Sevani, Telisha Shaw
Director: Jon M. Chu
Director: Jon M. Chu
Screenwriter: Toni Ann Johnson, Karen Barna
Producer: Patrick Wachsberger, Erik Feig, Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot
Composer: Aaron Zigman
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
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Reviews for Step Up 2 the Streets
This isn't a very good movie, but it's probably the best of it's kind.
A dance romance with attitude that will fall short if you're expecting fulfillment in the story department.
Will dance triumph over adversity? Will love between two attractive vacuous actors conquer all?
It's not a little obvious that the Step Up franchise means to keep a Disneyfied hand in the apparently inexorable dance movie cycle.
It suffers from a real lack of charisma, still the dance bits are good.
With a script cut-and-pasted from every other dance movie, this film is shockingly corny.
It suffers from a real lack of charisma, still the dance bits are good.
A robust addition to the street dance sub genre of movies, Step Up 2 The Streets offers plenty of exhilarating routines and a feasible storyline
All of this feverish bending, twirling, twisting and snapping of the body is so infused with attitude, in fact, that it allows the film and its characters to live and breathe in ways that run counter to the movie's otherwise rhythmless script.
Inexplicably, I liked this film more than its predecessor. Wait - let me type that again, just to let the reality sink into my own mind: I actually liked Step Up 2.
This is an average story of a young woman making it on her own. No, I'm not talking about Mary Tyler Moore, I'm talking about Andi, played by Briana Evigan, in "Step Up 2 the Streets," a film that delivers just about what you'd expect.
It's another of the many dance movies that fifteen years from now may just be admired in the same vein "Krush Groove" and "Breakin'" are...
It's very hard to argue that the dancing falls short, which means that the film at least justifies its own existence.
I can’t quite recommend it, but... for a certain demographic why not.
Step Up 2 has only a few points of correlation with its predecessor. It’s also probably the single most racist movie that will be released by any major American studio in the first 10 years of the twenty-first century.
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