Every Body Can Dance
Film: Step Up All In
Cast: Ryan Guzman, Briana Evigen, Adam Sevani
Directed by: Trish Sie
Duration: 1 hr 52 mins
Rating: * * 1 / 2
The fifth installment in the Step Up series which started in
2006 (which means they are churning one film in less than 2 years) is very much
in auto-pilot mode. It looks like whenever the producers are ready with the
money and the choreographers are ready with next set of dance steps,
screenwriters are hired to weave a ‘story’ around the characters and voila, a
Step Up film is ready. For directing it, this time they have Trish Sie who has made a few
music videos
Since a lot of the juice was already squeezed, this time they
decided to get characters from the previous films together. Sean (Ryan Guzman)
along with his crew The Mob move to L.A and are looking for that big break
which never comes. The other members
split while Ryan comes to know of a dance competition (what else?) that offers a life changing opportunity. He meets Moose (Adam Sevani who joined the
franchise in (Step Up 2) who introduces him to Andie (Briana Evigen) and a new
group is formed who will participate in the big competition.
In one scene Moose says, "Does everything have to end in
a big, giant dance battle?" the answer is, if it is a Step Up film, surely
it has to.
You don’t expect a character development or some kind of a
story in such a film but then it doesn’t have to be so bland either. The dances
are well choreographed but there is more razzle dazzle to it rather than
anything else. It also appears that modern day dancing looks good only when you
can do acrobatics rather than display some grace.
You won’t see the actors from Step Up in many other films
because primarily, they are not good at acting, they can dance. At this point
you miss Channing Tatum because he could do both.
Teeny boppers who have watched the
previous films will not miss this one but on the whole it -doesn’t have a great
deal to offer.
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