Step Up

An aspiring ballerina from a wealthy family learns some lessons about both dancing and life from a roughneck with soul in this teen drama. Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in a rough section of Baltimore, and has been in and out of trouble with the law most of his ...more

If one sees enough dance films, they'll quickly get hip to the cliché-ridden inbreeding found in each new entry that is released. Such is obviously the case with Step Up, a ballet hip hop cinematic mash-up that stumbles across the screen with little grace and nearly nothing new to add other than two fresh-faced anemic leads that the kids will swoon over while everyone else is left scratching their heads. Far inferior to its sibling films from the same time, the dance scenes have zero blood ...more