Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Step Up 2 The Streets



Step Up 2 the Streets is the sequel to 2006's Step Up. It's the story of a 16-year-old street dancer Andie West (Briana Evigan). After her mother died, she was taken in by her mother's best friend, Sarah (Sonja Sohn). Since West often skips school and spends too much time as member of the notorious dance crew 410, Sarah wants her to live with her aunt in Texas.

However, her friend and older brother figure, Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) convinces Sarah to give her another chance, by auditioning for the Maryland School of the Arts. Though the director of the school was hesitant to accept Andie, she was still accepted. Due to her school commitments she misses several 410 rehearsals, until they decided to throw her out. She assembles a new crew of classmates that includes Chase Collins (Robert Hoffman), the school's best dancer; they practice clandestinely in the school after school hours, to compete against the 410 in Baltimore's underground dance battle, The Streets.

After a humiliating prank from MSA, the 410 crew attacks Chase and vandalizes the school, after which Blake Collins (Will Kemp), the director of the school and Chase's big brother, throws out West and forbids the school's students to participate in any competitions like The Streets. They went to the building where the event takes place anyway, but the 410 won't let them compete, and the crowd agrees. But since MSA believes the streets is more than just for dancing, they went to the streets, where dancing really started, and performed under the pouring rain. Blake, who was observing, was impressed enough to allow West to return to the school, and integrate the dance style into the school program.

After watching this movie, I must say this is the best dance movie I've ever seen yet! The final showcase was superb not to mention Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman's chemistry in dancing. What I like most is that Channing Tatum, the lead dancing hottie in Step up was also in the movie to give it a transitional flow from Step Up to Step Up 2 The Streets. Moose, played by Adam Sevani got my attention in his "The Way I Are" dance. haha.. he was so0o cute doin' it! This is surely a must see movie!

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_Up_2_the_Streets

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