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On August 6, 2010 a comedy film, Step Up 3D, starring Rick Malambri, Adam Sevani, Sharni Vinson, Alyson Stoner, is released in United States.

Astonishing 3D digital brings the intensity of street dancing underground in New York to the third movie in a series of the franchise, Step Up. The rawness and passion displayed is seen as the dance culture goes international. A diverse group of dancers team up with a New York University freshman only to find themselves in opposition of the world’s greatest break dancers in a showdown that transforms their lives eternally.

Jon Chu returns as director and the setting is New York City. The film tracks The Pirates, a group of dancers in the hip-hop style of dance who reside and work collectively in a warehouse that is owned by Luke (Malambri). About to lose the warehouse because he can’t pay the mortgage payments, the only way Luke can think of to salvage the group is by entering the World Jam competition, a highly competitive dance contest. This is a takeoff of the battle of the bands that were so popular in the past; the dancers compete against each other individually and as a group.

In this movie there are some new faces. New York University student freshman Moose tries to deal with his schooling and his dancing, and is continuously in a mess for disregarding Camille, his best friend. The mystifying dancer Natalie attracts Luke’s eye. Following a pretty fundamental modus operandi it’s not hard to see how the dance competition and the romances are going to be decided. The script is problematical. It is cheap and choppy, making it hard for the actors to correspond any substance or depth and is an obstruction for a film attempting to express something insightful about the power of dance.

The third of the series in the Step Up movies reaches out to the 3D technology to relate the thrill of the dance on the large screen. This approach is great, but when the dancing ends, there is little that is impressive about the drama the movie tries to portray. We found this movie to be boring, frankly. The dancing was the vital, throbbing center of the movie, but the actors when not dancing were lifeless and did not portray their roles well at all. The dance sequences were spectacular, and for dancing enthusiasts this movie is going to thrill, but for the audience that expected a strong story line, this movie missed the mark.

The story lines that were supposed to be interwoven fall apart with the acting that was done. This movie is as disjointed in the acting department as someone who has pulled their hip out of socket trying one of those well choreographed dance moves that looks impossible. The highest praise this movie will get from me is the choreography that has been crafted into this movie with fantastic digitalized photography that makes you wonder if some of the dance is a digital recreation of something that was made to look real by a computer. I hate to cast doubt on the abilities of the dancers, for they hold this movie together, but some of the moves, well, just look unreal. That may be the marvel of this movie, the fact that the audience is not sure if the dance moves and sequences were actually performed or if they were scripted and made to look real by animation and digitalization in touch ups.

Prior to seeing the movie I had hopes that the old movie classic, West Side Story, was at least used as a guideline for the intense emotion that can be packed into a dance musical. Sadly, this was not the case. I saw Step Up 3D of late, expecting nothing other than a decent dance movie. I came out utterly disappointed. It wasn’t even satisfying. It was just eye candy and rubbish acting. More often than not bad movies had one positive thing. Step Up 3D has nothing other than what it has provided in the dance sequences. It had a weak script, the acting was rubbish to say the least, and the dancing was all over the place.

This is a shame because there are many excellent dancers in all the different styles of dance that are depicted in this movie and there were opportunities for excellent acting as well, but the audience does not get that from this movie. The actors did not carry the ball with this one. They let the ball drop and never recovered momentum after the first fifteen to twenty minutes of the movie. The action packed dance scenes are left to the wayside once the poor acting starts. You are so distracted by the poor story line that it is hard to let the dance scenes make the impact that should have been made.

Though this movie is rated for general audiences, I did not believe it is a good movie for children to see. The nudity of some male dancers from the rear and some of the language makes this movie unfriendly to families with small children. This movie is more for the teen genre which might be a good thing, because the discerning taste that older individuals will apply to this movie renders the whole production down to a movie that is poorly acted. The actors were poorly directed and the dance scenes were just not enough to carry the movie. The teens won’t mind because they will be seeing representatives of cultural dance icons and styles of music that they can relate to.

The third version of the Step Up series could have waited until the acting director had a little more experience directing the actors. As a dance director, Chu does a good job, but there are even scenes where the inexperience with a story line takes away from the intensity and power of the dance.

I was looking at my watch throughout the entire movie, begging for it to end. If you’re going to dance, make it on YouTube, not cram it into one awful movie like this. Do yourself a favor and do not pay for this. If you think I’m being way too harsh, you will know once you see the first fifteen minutes of the movie. It’s that bad.

Step Up 3D is directed by Jon Chu, written by Amy Andelson, Emily Meyer, Duane Adler, and produced by Patrick Wachsberger, Erik Feig, Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot. The movie is distributed by Touchstone Pictures, Universal Pictures International.

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