By James Fagan
No surprise here, this movie rocks your face off. If you have a problem with that, if you don’t like your face being rocked right off of your head, then just don’t go.
Step Up works just like porn. Get from one dance scene to the other with as little complicated a plot as possible and everyone can have a good time. Plus, the characters of Step Up 2: The Streets are all wearing just around the same amount of clothes as they would in Step Up 2: The Porn.
What is so surprising is how well this is executed. The acting isn’t all that bad, which is to say that every time an actor does something particularly bad they just dance a little and you remember how fun dancing is and forget all about silly acting. Everything is strung together with a nice moral value tale and sealed with incredibly beautiful people.
The bad guys of this story hang out in a dancing street gang, making this sort of a hip hop west side story. Much like West Side Story, there are also inspiring undercurrents of civil rights.
The only problem is, it’s the privileged white kids from the dancing high school that are fighting for they’re right to hang out in the “rough part of town” and break dance. It’s hard to drum up sympathy for a bunch of well off misfits from a school of ballet dancers as they take on the evil group of inner city kids who have decided that instead of resorting to a life of crime and drugs they’d rather work really hard and dance. I guess the ballet school gang is mad that they have so many opportunities and skills with such bright futures.
Of course, the real bad guy here is the dean of the high school, who is an old man and cruel and hates fun and creativity, and I’m pretty sure is 25. This depressed the hell out of me.
Still, rocked my face off. Plus, there’s that scene where they dance in the rain. That scene’s awesome.
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