Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!
Interesteg What makes it different from others?
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
Anssi Vartiainen Three young punks, one of them played by Channing Tatum, break into an art school and proceed to trash the place in the rebelliousness. Like these movie punks always do. Tatum's character gets caught and has to do community service at the school in order to pay for what he's done. But, while serving his time, he finds out that these rich artist kids might have something in common with him. Namely, the ion for dance.The plot is about as basic as they come, with Tatum's character having to help a young female student (Jenna Dewan), who has just lost a dancing partner to an ankle injury, and enlists Tatum's character to replace him. But the film has a lot of energy and good attitude that keep it going even when the plot should bore you to tears. Tatum and Dewan have great chemistry together, and tellingly married a couple of years later. The school is also a fun setting, with an atmosphere of its own and all the side characters show the ion they have for creating things, be it music or dancing or paintings.The film is also shot rather well. The sets look great, it has fantastic colours and all the various dance numbers are shot in a way that allow you to really feel the movement.Nothing much more to say, really. It's exactly what you'd expect from hearing the description, and for some people that can be a problem. Personally, I do like it after a fashion. It's not something I'd regret not having seen, but neither do I regret seeing it. It was a pleasant diversion.
PavelRios7 This movie lacks a complex cause-and-effect structure typical of good films and a plausible, well-constructed plot. It also fails to provide logical reasons for what little conflict there is as well as keeping the interest of the viewer. The acting is mediocre at best; however, the dancing and choreography are the movie's highlights. It cannot be emphasized enough, however, that there needs to be more dancing, specifically in the practice sessions, to make the film seem faintly realistic. In regarding to the quality of acting, Jenna Dewan is more dancer than actress while Channing Tatum once again fulfills his typecast character of "that cute guy from the ghettos." Besides their eventual marriage, the two actors show little chemistry on the big screen. The two protagonist's character traits are easy to find decent but hard to deem sympathetic. Look no further than James Thurber's "The Princess and the Tin Box" for irony regarding the stereotypical "rich girl likes poor boy" cliché portrayed in this movie. For people who enjoy formulaic, predictable romances without any substantial conflict, depth, or sincerity.
callanvass (Plot) Tyler is a troubled young man with untapped dancing skills. He has moved from Foster home to Foster home throughout his life, vandalizes a very posh arts school, takes the fall for it, and does community services for his unwise decision. He meets and falls for a beautiful, talented dancer named Nora (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) who helps turn his life around, and capitalize on his dancing skills. I actually enjoyed the second sequel to a certain extent, but this series is starting to get a little old now. Before they decided to get every last dime they could from this franchise, they made a fairly moving film like this one, which started it all. I'm not much of a dancing fan, but some of the stuff Channing, Jenna, the rest of the guys did made my jaw drop. It was truly impressive. Tyler's (Channing Tatum) story of reformation is a rather uncomplicated one, but effective all the same. It's not going to dazzle you with the plot or anything like that, but it sets out to entertain the masses, and it does that quite well. Channing Tatum gets a bad rap from some. (I'd venture a guess, that it's resentful husbands or guys with a girl that has a crush on Channing) I'm a guy, and I actually like him! He comes across as a little green at times, but he manages to overcome that with presence, charisma, and believability. His chemistry with Jenna Dewan is quite transparent, and it's easy to see why they fell in love for real, in real life. Channing worked hard and I commend him. Jenna Dewan is stunning. It also helps that I could relate to her character with ease. Final Thoughts: I it to being sick and tired of this series, but this movie manages to entertain me. It's not rocket science, just a very nice story about redemption and defying the obstacles in front of you. It's a good movie, at least I think so7/10
rebecca-ry 'Step Up' is primarily a dance film with some great dance sequences included. A lot of people therefore criticise the acting in this film because it is pretty poor from most of the performers.With Channing Tatum it's difficult; sometimes his acting can be terrible, his face hardly shows any expression at all in some scenes and his dialogue is wooden. However, in other scenes - particularly with his adopted little sister - he acts fantastically and gives a real-life performance that seems so natural. He acts best in long discussions with people. Jenna Dewan (now Jenna Dewan-Tatum) is good, not great. She's a professional dancer so you cannot expect her to be outstanding at acting because it simply is not her profession. She isn't bad though, I certainly would not say her acting performance was bad, just not great. Her dancing is of course the best in the film, Tatum is really good too. The story is not that great, it's too clichéd as is the case with a lot of films about dancing. There are some moments where you think the story could have been a lot better if they had worked on key points. They bring in important themes to the film such as living a life of crime, youth tragedies, crime taking over neighbourhoods but they don't explain or spread these themes out enough for them to take a hold on the film meaning the themes are half-explained and you're given a 'happy' ending whilst you have all of these questions unanswered.Overall, the film is enjoyable. I would recommend it if you like this sort of film, it's a decent film to watch if you just want to eat popcorn but don't expect anything outstanding.
