Step Up 2 The Streets
Step Up 2 The Streets is a sequel of sorts to 2006’s Step Up but isn’t a step up at all. Meantime veiled in all the fancy footwork is the same race plagiarism that has stretched from Elvis to Eminem and includes the Stones and The Beatles. I’m talking about predominantly white people taking a predominantly black art form and without improving on it, have more success with it. Briana Evigan plays Andie a troubled orphan adopted by her mom’s best friend and growing up in the same black neighbourhood as Tyler Gage which brings back the only star of the original movie Channing Tatum. Andie finds a longed for fraternity with a street dance crew but for the crime of dancing on the subway she’s threatened with relocation to Texas unless she can make it into Gage’s alma mater which is Baltimore’s answer to Julliard. He gets her an audition and then disappears and we’re introduced to a whole new cast of characters played by unknown actors, most of who prove to be more magnetic than Andie and her eventual love interest. Step Up 2 The Streets starts off promising but soon deteriorates into a fairly cliché format that has evolved for the recent rash of movies built around radical dance routines and was done better in this years Canadian production How She Move. Every plot point is weak but lets face it the plot is only there to set up the next dance sequence and those are progressively more creative and explosive thus providing redemption to an otherwise stumbling movie.