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The dance sequences are exhilarating, but everything else about this movie is sloppy and generic.
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Commits a variety of cinematic sins, none fatal individually but collectively enough to pull an audience under. Feb 4, 2004 | Full Review…
Commits a variety of cinematic sins, none fatal individually but collectively enough to pull an audience under.
Robert K. Elder
The movie dances when it should be developing, say, characters or story line. Feb 4, 2004 | Rating: C | Full Review…
The movie dances when it should be developing, say, characters or story line.
Matt Weitz
The story is so bored with itself, it collapses -- but the diverse troupe of dance talents at least makes it an eclectic slide. Feb 4, 2004 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
The story is so bored with itself, it collapses -- but the diverse troupe of dance talents at least makes it an eclectic slide.
Scott Brown
A thinly written, hoarily cliched story that serves mostly as connective tissue between the movie's chief draw, its dazzling dance sequences. Jan 30, 2004
A thinly written, hoarily cliched story that serves mostly as connective tissue between the movie's chief draw, its dazzling dance sequences.
Ann Hornaday
Choreographers Dave Scott and Shane Sparks deserve all the credit they can get. Jan 30, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Choreographers Dave Scott and Shane Sparks deserve all the credit they can get.
Susan Walker
As far as plot, drama and performances go ... well, did I mention that the dancing is good? Jan 30, 2004 | Rating: 1/4
As far as plot, drama and performances go ... well, did I mention that the dancing is good?
Moira MacDonald
The dance sequences are awesome, but the weak multi-cliché plot is aimed squarely at an audience recently out of their diapers and who have not yet got bored with MTV. Apr 17, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The dance sequences are awesome, but the weak multi-cliché plot is aimed squarely at an audience recently out of their diapers and who have not yet got bored with MTV.
Kaleem Aftab
Dubious plot and characters, good dancing. Dec 29, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Dubious plot and characters, good dancing.
Nell Minow
Nothing but an exploitative piece of garbage... Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
Nothing but an exploitative piece of garbage...
Felix Vasquez Jr.
We actually begin to laugh at the inanity of it all, wanting to yell at the screen: 'Just shut up and dance!' Apr 29, 2004 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
We actually begin to laugh at the inanity of it all, wanting to yell at the screen: 'Just shut up and dance!'
Rich Cline
Before shooting began, the dancers rehearsed for eight weeks to develop off-the-hook new dance moves, which begs the question: Who was working on the script during that time? Feb 24, 2004 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Before shooting began, the dancers rehearsed for eight weeks to develop off-the-hook new dance moves, which begs the question: Who was working on the script during that time?
Peter Debruge
You Got Served is, to quote Simon Cowell, absolutely dreadful. Feb 17, 2004 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
You Got Served is, to quote Simon Cowell, absolutely dreadful.
Mike McGranaghan
It's dull in plot and flat in performance, but You Got Served's undeniably talented choreography and energetic dance numbers is just enough to shroud the plentiful missteps the film took. 3.5/5
Super Reviewer
It was "cool". Other than the dancing, everything else was cheesy: acting, scenes, etc. Good to watch once, but nothing more.
Today, I will review the critically acclaimed Academy Award winning musical, "You Got Served". I've seen quite a couple movies about dance crews. Many have great dancing but don't really have a plot. I give "You Got Served" kudos for actually having a story. Its about a dance crew (OBVIOUSLY!) who is famous around the neighborhood. They called up by another dance crew to do a dance-off (OBVIOUSLY!) with the reward being fifty grand. After the dance-off, the crew finds out that most of their moves were taken. They get SERVED by the other crew and comepete in a professional dance-off where not only they win a lot of moola, but get casted in Lil' Kim's new music video. I forgot to mention the film's subplots. There is a romance subplot that revolves around Omarion and the cute Jennifer Freeman and a whole lazily developed gangster crime subplot. The crime subplot didn't work and the romance was "meh". "You Got Served" is like watching an episode of a BET series extended to movie length. I really like hip-hop and break dancing but this movie just didn't work. I find it so funny how the creators try to get us emotionally attatched to the characters. I know you readers are not gonna waste your time seeing this depending on your tastes but one character gets killed off-screen. The acting was okay not terrible. The acting looks like "YGS" was an amateur film for YouTube. By the way the characters act and go along, we know we're not going to remember them by the time the film ends. These aren't memorable characters. Break dancers just come and go. Predictability level: high and low. At some points we knew how it was gonna go down and some points we don't. Lastly, the dancing. Good but not great. Dance moves are so familiar and been-there-done-that. Better than many dance flicks but it still isn't anything special. I've seen many movies that are so better than this. We can say that the writer/director of the film just got SERVED by better directors! I'll just watch "America's Best Dance Crew" for the time being. From the creators of "You Got Served" comes "Voltron": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OvfuLI2CBc&feature=related
The dancing scenes are great. Everything else sucks.
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