give the new movie some credit for being a lot more fun than its namesake
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
A brainless piece of product that is so utterly devoid of anything not concerned with the idea of separating 12-year-olds from their allowance that it makes the Hannah Montana infomercial/movie seem like "There Will Be Blood" by comparison
Promises to hit all the urban-dance hallmarks with sledgehammer intensity.
Providing you're not hip-hop- or cliche-averse, see Step Up 2 the Streets with the right expectations and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
too afraid of deviating from the typical dance movie formula. And in all honesty, it's not such a great blueprint to bother following anyway.
For all of its ragin' dance moves and rebellious talk, is high-spirited and harmless. An MC at one dance contest declares, "This ain't 'High School Musical'!" Oh, but it is.
Stumbl[es] gracelessly from point A to point B and hitting all the expected notes in the process.
Let's wait for a movie where they do get it all right: story, acting and dancing. It'll happen, just not this time.
Chu... doesn't try to do much with a script that rehashes every dance-movie cliché, with people getting served, bringing it on and stomping yards.
The story may be old, but these kids act -- and dance -- as though they are telling it for the first time.
Step Up 2 the Streets posits a universe where racial and class differences are minor obstacles to fun and pretends its clichés aren’t clichés.
Undeniably energetic and viscerally satisfying, but emotionally hollow.
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