#MOOSE FROM STEP UP MOVIES MOVIE#
In fairness, a lot of the filmmakers’ attention probably went to shooting the movie in 3-D (no after-the-fact conversion here), and the effect is unusually natural-looking and unobtrusive. Sevani, who looks and sounds just the slightest bit like a young, white Michael Jackson, has the most distinctive presence among the leads, but there doesn’t appear to have been anyone around to help him shape a real character. It doesn’t demand much of the mostly anonymous cast Mr.
#MOOSE FROM STEP UP MOVIES SERIES#
The perfunctory narrative, involving the central crew’s efforts to save its sprawling studio-club-crash pad, is just an excuse for a series of dance showdowns it functions less as a story than as a catalog of references meant to interest a young audience: mixed martial arts, parkour, X-games, Red Hook, Chinatown, D.I.Y. Camille, a character in the original “Step Up,” and Moose, from “Step Up 2,” arrive in New York for college and are swept into the film’s fairy-tale world of warring hip-hop dance crews and vast downtown lofts, a vision seemingly stitched together from “Wild Style,” “Babes in Arms” (“Let’s put on a show!”) and 1940s boxing movies. Chu, who directed “Step Up 2: The Streets,” and the writers Amy Andelson and Emily Meyer have moved the story to New York from Baltimore, the setting of the first two films in the series. (Sometimes the outcome of a “battle” matters to the plot, but the winners are always preordained.)įor real excitement and emotion you’d be better off watching “America’s Best Dance Crew” on MTV.com, where there’s less corny dialogue and hokey contrivance to get in the way of the moves. The dancers may be skilled, but their work has no meaning in terms of the story - it’s pure spectacle, and numbingly repetitive spectacle at that. The rest of the film is business as usual, which means that every 20 minutes or so it grinds to a halt for another overproduced dance-crew routine.
Sevani) and Camille (Alyson Stoner) a few steps further. That’s not because of the choreography, which is ho-hum, but because for a few moments the dancing helps tell the story, taking the tentative romance of Moose (Adam G. Set to a remix of Fred Astaire’s version of “I Won’t Dance,” blaring from an ice cream truck’s loudspeaker, it’s the film’s most conspicuous attempt to ride Astaire’s coattails and is its only memorable dance. Partway through “Step Up 3D” there’s a number unlike anything else in the movie.
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