Step Up 2: The Streets ** (2008, Adam G Sevani, Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan, Cassie Ventura, Danielle Polanco, Will Kemp) – Classic Movie Review 4639

Director Jon M Chu’s 2010 largely unrelated Step Up dance movie sequel, ‘based on characters’ from the surprise 2006 dance film hit, is bright and sexy enough, reasonably entertaining and overall just about OK. It stars Adam G Sevani as a talented young dancer called Moose who is hanging around his new friends Andie West (Briana Evigan) and Missy Serrano (Danielle Polanco).

The movie is choreographed by Jamal Sims, Nadine ‘Hi Hat’ Ruffin and Dave Scott.

Briana Evigan plays the rebellious street dancer Andie, who finds herself fighting to fit in at the elite Maryland School of the Arts and eventually joins forces with the school’s hottest dancer Chase Collins (Robert Hoffman) to form a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in Baltimore’s underground dance battle The Streets.

Cassie Ventura plays Sophie Donovan, Chase’s ex-girlfriend who later falls in love with Moose, Will Kemp plays Blake Collins, the MSA’s strict director and Chase’s older brother, and Christopher Scott plays talented choreographer Hair.

It features attractive performers, a familiar story, some generic songs, a lot of zesty if over-edited dancing, and a cameo from Step Up star Channing Tatum as Tyler, who befriends Andie. But if there are no new ideas and there is no better script than this, it is time to Give It Up!

Well it took an astounding $150 million worldwide on a cost of $17.5 million and of course they didn’t Give It Up, and Step Up 3D (with Sevani returning), Step Up 4 and Step Up 5 duly followed.

© Derek Winnert 2016 Classic Movie Review 4639

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