Cast: Rick Malambri, Adam Sevani, Sharni Vinson
Director: Jon Chu
In the opening scene of 'Step Up 3D', a set of proud parents say goodbye to their geeky son as he heads off to university. "We're just glad you're done with that dance business," his father says, looking positively relieved.
It doesn't take a genius to predict that despite what his dad may think, this kid is going to find a way to pursue his dancing dreams.
You don't go into a dance movie for a layered storyline or great performances, and 'Step Up 3D' delivers neither. The film follows Moose (played by Adam Sevani), who arrives in New York to study engineering after promising his parents to hang up his dance shoes. Instead he falls in with a group that needs to win a $ 100,000 cash-prize in a dance championship so they keep their studio open. The rest of this movie continues down a familiar path: there's a star-crossed romance, an in-house sabotage, and ultimately an against-all-odds victory.
To compensate for its predictable plot and its cardboard characters, the film offers a bunch of stunning dance pieces -- an amalgamation of slick camerawork, gorgeous production design, thrilling choreography and pulsating music. There's an energy in these performances that is riveting, and watching the film in 3D you feel like the dancers are leaping right off the screen.
The dramatic scenes in this film are mercifully brief, and the acting is so wooden you find yourself rolling your eyes in disbelief. The script is packed with cheesy lines like "Dance saved me" and "We're all plugged into the same song", but they're delivered by the mostly unknown cast with such sincerity, you almost feel guilty each time you want to laugh.
This is the third film in the 'Step Up' franchise, and easily the most enjoyable, not least because shooting it in 3D allows for such shamelessly good fun as the climatic sequence in which the group hits the floor wearing suits made out of colour-changing lights.
I'm going with a generous three out of five for 'Step Up 3D'. It's a 107-minute music video for fans of street dancing. Go watch it, and shake a leg!
Rating: 3 / 5
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