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Friday, March 14, 2008
@ 9:19 PM


edited: the guys version

the girls version

STEP UP 2: THE STREETS TOTALLY ROCKS!<3
yes! it is a must WATCH! finally catch it today with cheryl regina and tracy. yea. went ceni today. and i dunno why the ppl haven send me the tickets thingy yet >< i wanna go watch again!
ok. the image looked kinda screwed. i was following the tut. and then i suddenly found out how to do the spiral thing that i wanted to do. and in the end i sort of... over do it XD haha. yea. ok. i will redo one. ^^

*reads abt step up 2* haha.

Tomboy Andie (Briana Evigan) belongs to an elite inner-city dance crew called the 410 whose latest prank--invading a subway car posing as muggers and staging an impromptu dance show for bewildered passengers-- gets its members labeled delinquents by the Baltimore media.

Watching reports of the 410's "public disturbances" on TV that night, Andie's guardian (Sonja Sohn, pic's only connection to HBO's gritty, Baltimore-based "The Wire") threatens to send the unruly orphan to Texas. As in the first film, the wayward teen lands herself at the Maryland School of the Arts, where her street-dancing style clashes with the institution's conservative methods.

By this point, it's clear the strait-laced dance academy is the sequel's only tie to the original, but fans needn't take down their Tatum pinups just yet. The hunky "Step Up" star returns long enough to make auds swoon anew, challenging Andie to a dance-off. If she wins, the movie's over and everybody can go home. But if he wins, she agrees to take MSA seriously and attend classes without question.

And so Tatum reminds us why the first movie was such a runaway sensation, using trampolines to outdance the newbie. But even this display gives only the faintest indication of the incredible dancing in store. "Step Up 2" features nearly as much dancing as it does dialogue, and that's a good thing, considering the after-school special quality of its obligatory emotional scenes.

Flirtation proves most effective on the dance floor anyway, best exemplified by an otherwise throwaway scene choreographed by Jamal Sims (one of the original's few alums). The most popular kid in school, Chase Collins (Robert Hoffman), has been trying to win Andie over the entire movie, and at a friend's backyard barbecue, these two work out their connections through dance.

It's when things slow down long enough for the characters to start talking that "Step Up 2" gets itself in trouble. Pic culminates not onstage but at an underground dance competition called "the Streets," where rival crews battle it out for respect. After getting dropped from the 410, Andie allows Chase to convince her they can put their own group together, plucking misfit students from MSA and assembling the fiercest crew Baltimore has ever seen.

In order to make the ultimate showdown appropriately dramatic, the writers turn the 410 into hoodlums who play dirty, which effectively cancels the spirit of civil disobedience and independent expression the pic espoused during its opening scene, trading instead on the very stereotypes it set out to counter.

little? XD

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