Jason KingStep Up 3D (6/10)
August 5th 2010 21:09
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Adam Sevani Rocks!!
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You don't go and see a Step Up movie for the acting, or a mind shattering plot, or a fantastic script. You go and see it for some of the sickest earth rocking dancing. And this film delivers. It has some of the best dancing I have ever seen on film and I came out of the cinema with a bit of a bop in my step.
To be honest I would also go and see any dance movie that has Adam Sevani in it - this kid just rocks the dance world - he is up there with the best I have ever seen.
Sevani plays Moose, the uber geeky kid who can kick it and first came to us in Step Up 2: The Streets. This is where the plot of the film starts to suck it big time. The film starts out about Moose and loosely follows him and his encounters interspersed with his amazing dancing - seriously his dancing is so good Michael Jackson must be kicking himself he died as they should have worked together. But then the film decides to have its love story and copy what every other Step Up film has done - it puts in a girl, Sharni Vinson and a hot guy Rick Malambri and centres the film on them. Firstly because Malambri is hot and Sevani is geeky. Bean counters would have been screaming that Malambri would put bums on seats whereas Sevani wouldn't get as many horny little teenage girls. Malambri might as well be the brother of Channing Tatum who was pretty much discovered in Step Up. The franchise is so formulaic it is embarrassing. This is basically Step Up 2 all over again but it is now not so much about individual dancing styles, it is about the war of competitive dancing and the battle of the dance off.
This gives the film some more edge and I have not seen a film showcase so many styles in 90 or so minutes. The dance is mind blowing and gets 10 out of 10. The acting is lame and gets about 4 out of 10. The acting is passable if you are watching Home and Away or Neighbours and pretty much all of them are woeful. Except Moose - Sevani needs a movie about him - a white Michael Jackson coming of dance age film - this would rock - take that idiot bean counters. I am pretty sure Malambri can't even dance - you rarely see him or if you do it is a non exciting dance move. Sharni Vinson is good, I like her, but I kept getting confused as she looks like the same girl from Step Up 1 and 2 - they all blend into the same person, but wait a minute, Australia's own Alyson Stoner who plays Camille, Moose's love interest and best friend actually was the girl from the first Step Up. Christ I am confused now
The film has numerous characters that are all so likeable and I love some of the ideas of the film. The VAULT, where the dancers live and dance just rocks and the term BFAB kicks ass - it means Born from a Boom Box and I love this. I really enjoy the interlacing of a film that Luke (Malambri) is making about dancers and why they love it. It gave a slight docco feel and also some soul to the film. I wish they had played on that more. But instead they played it safe and remade Step Up 2 with new people. I did get really excited when the funny characters from Step Up 2 join the crew towards the end and we then get such a fun bunch of people with so much skill it makes me shudder.
The film is colorful, enjoyable, all about dance. Skip the plot and enjoy the dance and you can't go wrong. Without Moose the film scores 3 out of 10 - with him and his bloody sick dance moves - it gets a 6 out of 10. Out today and take those 3D glasses for some cool dancing in 3D.
To be honest I would also go and see any dance movie that has Adam Sevani in it - this kid just rocks the dance world - he is up there with the best I have ever seen.
Sevani plays Moose, the uber geeky kid who can kick it and first came to us in Step Up 2: The Streets. This is where the plot of the film starts to suck it big time. The film starts out about Moose and loosely follows him and his encounters interspersed with his amazing dancing - seriously his dancing is so good Michael Jackson must be kicking himself he died as they should have worked together. But then the film decides to have its love story and copy what every other Step Up film has done - it puts in a girl, Sharni Vinson and a hot guy Rick Malambri and centres the film on them. Firstly because Malambri is hot and Sevani is geeky. Bean counters would have been screaming that Malambri would put bums on seats whereas Sevani wouldn't get as many horny little teenage girls. Malambri might as well be the brother of Channing Tatum who was pretty much discovered in Step Up. The franchise is so formulaic it is embarrassing. This is basically Step Up 2 all over again but it is now not so much about individual dancing styles, it is about the war of competitive dancing and the battle of the dance off.
This gives the film some more edge and I have not seen a film showcase so many styles in 90 or so minutes. The dance is mind blowing and gets 10 out of 10. The acting is lame and gets about 4 out of 10. The acting is passable if you are watching Home and Away or Neighbours and pretty much all of them are woeful. Except Moose - Sevani needs a movie about him - a white Michael Jackson coming of dance age film - this would rock - take that idiot bean counters. I am pretty sure Malambri can't even dance - you rarely see him or if you do it is a non exciting dance move. Sharni Vinson is good, I like her, but I kept getting confused as she looks like the same girl from Step Up 1 and 2 - they all blend into the same person, but wait a minute, Australia's own Alyson Stoner who plays Camille, Moose's love interest and best friend actually was the girl from the first Step Up. Christ I am confused now
The film has numerous characters that are all so likeable and I love some of the ideas of the film. The VAULT, where the dancers live and dance just rocks and the term BFAB kicks ass - it means Born from a Boom Box and I love this. I really enjoy the interlacing of a film that Luke (Malambri) is making about dancers and why they love it. It gave a slight docco feel and also some soul to the film. I wish they had played on that more. But instead they played it safe and remade Step Up 2 with new people. I did get really excited when the funny characters from Step Up 2 join the crew towards the end and we then get such a fun bunch of people with so much skill it makes me shudder.
The film is colorful, enjoyable, all about dance. Skip the plot and enjoy the dance and you can't go wrong. Without Moose the film scores 3 out of 10 - with him and his bloody sick dance moves - it gets a 6 out of 10. Out today and take those 3D glasses for some cool dancing in 3D.
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Mum - the dancing is totally brilliant - but that's about it.
Amy - dancing is dancing - if you have an appreciation for some mind blowing moves then you will love it. There hasn't been that many out lately. It has been 5 or 6yrs for 3 Step Up movies and the other one was the UK Streetdance 3D. I really like them because I just loved So You Think You Can Dance and I miss it it now it's off the TV.
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I totally agree on the Adam Sevani comments, he is absolutely amazing and in my opinion way more attractive than Malambri. If Sevani doesnt star in a movie that it focused almost entirely on him, i think i might explode
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You will be happy to know he is coming out in 2 films soon. One is called LOL and also stars Miley Cyrus, Ashley Greene and Demi Moore.
The other film is called The First Time and that is being made right now and also stars Brittany Robertson and Victoria Justice and I have no idea who they are hahahaha.