Stomp the Yard (2007)
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 89
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 66
While Stomp the Yard contains impressive musical and dance numbers, it loses its momentum during the intervening soap opera-style subplots.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 21
While Stomp the Yard contains impressive musical and dance numbers, it loses its momentum during the intervening soap opera-style subplots.
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A young man finds that the moves he learned on the street may help him make a better life for himself in this youth-oriented musical drama. DJ Williams (Columbus Short) is a 19-year-old growing up in Los Angeles; while DJ is at heart a good kid and a gifted street dancer, he runs with a dangerous crowd, and one night an underground dance competition turns into a brawl and DJ ends up in jail. DJ's younger brother has already died a violent death, and his mother, hoping to put him back on the
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Columbus Short
DJ Williams -
Meagan Good
April -
Ne-Yo
Rich Brown -
Darrin Dewitt Henson
Grant -
Brian J. White
Sylvester -
Laz Alonso
Zeke -
Valarie Pettiford
Aunt Jackie -
Jermaine Williams
Noel -
Allan Louis
Dr. Palmer -
Harry J. Lennix
Uncle Nate -
Chris Brown
Duron -
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There's little here for British eyes.
Top CriticBenign nonsense.
The moves can be remarkable, though ritually repetitive -- male chorus lines of adrenalized automata acting out anger, menace, pride, audacity or joy.
Stomp the Yard is a strange and at times strangely compelling mix of black fraternity recruitment video and inspirational tale about a hip-hop boy in a stepping world.
Perhaps director Sylvain White hoped that this laughably melodramatic film might find its way into the pantheon of urban dance films. But seen against such films as Rize and You Got Served, it's a step in the wrong direction.
Typical of dance movies, there's a bit of story to fill the gaps between energetic sessions of movement. Director Sylvain White captures loads of feverish step action with stylishly jittery camerawork, muted colors and claustrophobic framing.
It's a little bit of a musical, a little bit of a sports film, a little bit coming-of-age story. And none of it, beyond the dancing, any good.
Well-intentioned film steps up the melodrama.
The dance sequences are strong, but everything else is weak. Like, I can't pick up this pencil, much less dance, weak.
I would say that I found more of interest in this featurette than I did in the entire film.
... the film as a whole lacks the energy of its dance numbers.
At a time of year when theaters are filled with flashy, fun, but empty offerings, Stomp The Yard is a surprisingly satisfying alternative.
It's not a great movie, no, and maybe not even a particularly good one. But it's likable and unassuming, and the dancing is off the hook, or whatever the kids are saying these days.
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