Director: Scott Speer
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Rating: C
Over the course of four movies the Step Up franchise has shown us how the power of dance can overcome all of the world's evils: poverty, evil overbearing parental figures, and poverty. What? There are no other evils in the world, and dancing of course solves all.
Step Up Revolution takes the franchise out of New York and into Miami. Here longtime friends Sean (Guzman) and Eddie (Gabriel) have formed a flash mob dance group, called The Mob. The group is part of some sort of Youtube contest, where the first video to get to ten million hits whens a butt load of money. Enter Emily Anderson (McCormick), the daughter of real-estate tycoon Bill Anderson (Gallagher). Bill is trying to buy up a lot of land in Miami where the Mob's community lives so that he can build a new fancy hotel. The Mob is against this and as is Emily - Emily dreams of being a dancer, while her father is trying to push her into entering into business with him. She chooses dance, and in doing so begins to help The Mob politicize their dance, and embarks on a relationship with Sean.
You don't go to a Step Up movie for the plot. Really, the plot's been some variation of the same thing for the last three movies (which in turn were only a twist of the plot in the first movie), and the actors are hired more for their dance ability than their acting. Their dance ability, by the way, is awesome. I mean it, some of these people are phenomenal dancers and the stuff that they do just blows your mind. In each of the Step Up movies there's one dance that just amazes you - in this one my favourite was when they flash mob the art gallery (and the way the curator reacts made me think that the group could have regularly done that and it'd be fine). The movie is worth checking out for that one scene. I did, however, have a problem with the 3D in this movie; it looked a bit shoddy at parts and made some of the shooting a bit shaky. When the important part about a movie is the dancing it's kind of a bad thing when the effects added to it really take away from said dancing.
What else to say about this movie... the acting is not that great. This is the first movie for the two leads, McCormick and Guzman, and the first major role for Gabriel, so I guess you can't really expect too much. I wasn't disappointed in them so much as I was disappointed in Peter Gallagher. The rest of the cast was a bunch of dancers just venturing into the acting scene. Peter Gallagher's been around for awhile now and I kind of wonder why he does movies like this - kind of, until I look at his actual filmography and see that most of his movies aren't exactly blockbusters. Peter, really, just say no to sequels.
No comments:
Post a Comment