Step Up 3-D (2010)

All Critics (118) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (63) | DVD (5)

I think it actually honors the art form of dance, but not in a solemn, highbrow way.

August 10, 2010 Full Review

A.O. Scott

At the Movies

Top Critic

Functions less as a story than as a catalog of references meant to interest a young audience: mixed martial arts, parkour, X-games, Red Hook, Chinatown, D.I.Y. filmmaking.

August 6, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Mike Hale

New York Times

Top Critic

The dance scenes are inventive and pop out in all kinds of strange places.

August 6, 2010 Full Review

Jennie Punter

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Though director Jon Chu brings admirable energy and imagination to Step Up 3D's dance extravaganzas, he can't animate shockingly wooden performances or cure stumble-footed dialogue.

August 6, 2010 Full Review

Kathleen Murphy

MSN Movies

Top Critic

The main reason to see Step Up 3D is for the high-energy dancing and innovative camerawork, and on those points it delivers.

August 6, 2010 Full Review

Ylan Q. Mui

Washington Post

Top Critic

Saw 3D looked like the scariest tri-dimensional offering at the movies this year. Until now.

August 6, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Kyle Smith

New York Post

Top Critic

Blends the narrative, the dancing, and the music in a vibrant way that hasn't been captured before. Otherwise, it's really just more of the same.

July 24, 2012 Full Review

Dustin Putman

DustinPutman.com

With each successive film, whatever passes for story becomes all the more shallow and trite--and the movies as a whole actually get *better*.

July 23, 2012 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Plotting along at an infantile level, the story here is nothing new and hardly means anything.

June 29, 2012 Full Review

John Esther

UR Chicago Magazine

Genuine and genuinely infectious.

March 5, 2011 Full Review

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

Incredibly stupid in just about every way. And yet, it had what may have been my favorite scene at the movies this year...[Blu-ray 3D]

January 14, 2011 Full Review

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

If you're TV set and Blu-ray player can handle it, this 3D Blu-ray set of Step Up 3D corroborates the film's innovatie use of 3D.

December 26, 2010 Full Review

Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

The latest entry in a consistently underwhelming series...

December 21, 2010 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Whilst the film attempts to advocate the organic and liberating tenets of dance, it contradicts this message though consumerism and unashamed product placement.

October 29, 2010 Full Review

Shannon Wright

Moviedex

The only laugh comes during the end credits, when the phrase 'featuring characters created by Duane Adler' pops up onto the screen. This film had characters? Now that's entertainment.

October 21, 2010 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Step Up 3D is one D too many. This gimmick-laden film is filled with clichés in the production as well as the script.

October 2, 2010 Full Review

Steve Rhodes

Internet Reviews

Step Up 3D ima isforsiranih momenata no na sreću takvih je malo pa vrijeme provedeno ispred ekrana relativno brzo prolazi

September 12, 2010 Full Review

Dragan Antulov

rec.arts.movies.reviews

full review at Movies for the Masses

September 11, 2010 Full Review

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

Who needs competent acting and writing when there are so many shiny, pretty things flying right at you?

August 23, 2010 Full Review

Nathan Rabin

AV Club

This, the latest variation on the "follow your dream" dance fantasy, draws an ever sharper line between tip-top street dance and bottom-of-the-class dialogue and acting.

August 23, 2010 Full Review

Anthony Quinn

Independent

While I did have fun while watching it, I can't say for sure if I would have been quite so forgiving if I had actually paid to see it.

August 23, 2010 Full Review

Peter Sobczynski

eFilmCritic.com

The 3-D at its best pops (a red-gloved dancer bursts out from the screen as if diving through a window), but more often it's merely Dramamine-inducing.

August 23, 2010 Full Review

Tom Meek

Boston Phoenix

• 1. Moose: I dance because dancing changes things...
  – Submitted by Pearl-Joy P (5 months ago)
• 1. Moose: You know, some famous guy once said: 'To travel is better than to arrive.' And I was like, 'What?' Because I used to think that there was only one path to take to where you want to be in life. But, if you choose that one path, it doesn't mean you have to abandon all the other ones.I realize it actually what happens along the way that counts; the stumbles, the falls, and the friendships. It's the journey and not the destination. You just gotta, I guess, trust that the future is gonna work itself out like it's supposed to.
  – Submitted by Britt V (14 months ago)
• 1. Luke: What is it that you love about dance?
  2. Natalie: Everything you need to know is in my dancing.
  3. Luke: Everything?
  – Submitted by Kerwin M (16 months ago)
• 1. Luke: You up for a little competition?
  2. Camille: I never lose.
  – Submitted by Kerwin M (16 months ago)
• 1. Moose: I was born to be the Ashley to your Mary-Kate.
  – Submitted by Kerwin M (16 months ago)
• 1. Luke: Welcome to my house.
  – Submitted by Kerwin M (16 months ago)

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