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Stomp the Yard (2007)

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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.

30

Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 19

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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Average Rating: 3.8/5
User Ratings: 446,320

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Movie Info

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

Unrated, 1 hr. 54 min.

Drama

Robert Adetuyi, Gregory Anderson

May 18, 2007

$61.4M

Screen Gems

Cast

All Critics (96) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (69) | DVD (19)

The moves can be remarkable, though ritually repetitive -- male chorus lines of adrenalized automata acting out anger, menace, pride, audacity or joy.

January 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | Comment
Wall Street Journal
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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.

January 12, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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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.

January 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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The film introduces too many elements, doubles back on itself, repeats and repeats the same information, starts and stops, includes needless tangential riffs, finds artificial means to stretch the running length and is in every way a flabby mess.

January 12, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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The script, based on an earlier screenplay by a Florida A&M alum, accomplishes little -- it's basically Drumline, with dancing instead of drum corps.

January 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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The cast adds little. Columbus Short, a dancer-turned-actor, can move well, but he mugs too much for the camera when he's supposed to be having fun, and barely holds the screen when he's not.

January 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | Comment
Newark Star-Ledger
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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.

March 30, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
ComingSoon.net

Well-intentioned film steps up the melodrama.

July 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

The dance sequences are strong, but everything else is weak. Like, I can't pick up this pencil, much less dance, weak.

July 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

I would say that I found more of interest in this featurette than I did in the entire film.

July 11, 2007 Full Review Source: DVD Review | Comment
DVD Review

... the film as a whole lacks the energy of its dance numbers.

July 11, 2007 Full Review Source: DVD Review | Comment
DVD Review

At a time of year when theaters are filled with flashy, fun, but empty offerings, Stomp The Yard is a surprisingly satisfying alternative.

June 25, 2007 Full Review Source: IGN Movies | Comment
IGN Movies

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.

May 14, 2007 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | Comment
EricDSnider.com

A United Negro College Fund PSA for anyone interested in obtaining a Ph.D. in bling and booty calls. A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

May 12, 2007 Full Review Source: EURWeb | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Stomp the Yard

Sucks critically, poor acting and script but still bearable to watch.

July 31, 2011
Eric Alvarez

Super Reviewer

Always been a sucker for dance films and this didn't fail to impress. It was a breath of fresh air to find a dancing film that had a different sort of dance. I'd never heard of stomping before I watched this film so it really made it different from the other dance films I'd seen. Good film!

June 23, 2011
murphmann93
Bethany Murphy

Super Reviewer

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