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Step Up 2 the Streets
Touchstone Pictures (Disney)

Step Up 2 the Streets reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 50 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.7 out of 10
based on 20 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language, some suggestive material and brief violence

Starring Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Will Kemp, Cassie Ventura, Adam G. Sevani, and Telisha Shaw

Step Up 2 the Streets is the follow-up to the smash hit Step Up, which ignited theaters in August 2006. When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the school's hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in Baltimore's underground dance battle "The Streets," she ultimately finds a way to live her dream while building a bridge between her two separate worlds. (Touchstone Pictures)


GENRE(S): Drama  |  Musical  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Toni Ann Johnson
Karen Barna
 
DIRECTED BY: Jon M. Chu  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: July 15, 2008 
Theatrical: February 14, 2008 
RUNNING TIME: 98 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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75
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Human-spirit cliches and all, the movie accomplishes job one: It moves. It also has a choice soundtrack, spiced by the likes of Missy Elliott’s “Shake Your Pom Pom” and Digital Underground’s immortal “Humpty Dance.”
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75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Travis Nichols
Isn't nearly as entertaining as it is predictable.
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70
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
The wall-to-wall soundtrack naturally features plenty of today's leading hip-hop and R&B artists, including Flo Rida, T-Pain, Missy Elliott and Trey Songz.
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70
Variety Peter Debruge
Rather than mixing classical and modern styles the way "Step Up" did, this hip-hop-powered sequel is all about new moves, which should keep the kids coming back after the pic's initial Valentine's Day crush.
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70
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Directed in humongous close-up by former dancer Jon M. Chu, Step Up 2 the Streets is suavely choreographed by Jamal Sims, Nadine "Hi Hat" Ruffin and Dave Scott.
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67
Entertainment Weekly Gregory Kirschling
In a sequel that features the original's Channing Tatum only in cameo, a Baltimore teen (Briana Evigan, very winning) enrolls at an arts academy, leaving her street-dancing pals behind. So far, ho hum. But when she decides to form a new crew with her classmates, Step Up 2 the Streets improves considerably -- and it doesn't skimp on cool pretzel moves.
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63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
So when it comes to rawness, realness or any other signifier of urban authenticity, Step Up 2 The Streets doesn't measure up, especially when compared with a grittier dance flick still in theatres, the Toronto-made "How She Move."
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58
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Scores some serious points for its dance moves but does a lousy job of remembering there's a lot more to this big old world than moving your feet.
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50
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The current, much better Canadian movie "How She Move" has a more realistic grip on the racial politics of hip-hop-dance.
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50
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
The central romance is terminally bland, while Evigan's woozy family melodrama seems borrowed from countless superior dance movies.
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50
USA Today Claudia Puig
Step Up 2 is one long, clichéd exercise in predictability with a couple of vibrant dance sequences and some unintentionally hilarious bad acting.
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50
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Unabashedly earnest, completely predictable and packed with enough high-voltage dance scenes to make any audience applaud.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
A sequel arrives for Valentine's Day with the unwieldy title Step Up 2 the Streets. If it performs as well, watch for "Step Up 3: the Sprained Ankle."
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50
ReelViews James Berardinelli
Much of the average viewer's time in the theater will be spent waiting somewhat impatiently for the high-energy climax. Catnaps are an advisable way to survive some of the slow spots.
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50
The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz
An earnest sequel to the 2006 cornball musical drama “Step Up,” mixing new characters into the original’s setting.
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50
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The stepping is terrific and the climactic sequence, a knowing nod to the infamous Bollywood "wet sari" number, is a knock out. But the united colors of we-can-overcome cuties, predictable class conflicts and sanitized keeping-it-real bluster bring the story's intensely formulaic nature into the.
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50
Film Threat Felix Vasques Jr.
The only reason to watch Step Up 2 the Streets, and I mean the only reason, is Briana Evigan.
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38
Premiere Glenn Kenny
The reason for all this dull-to-offensive story stuff is, of course, the dancing, which has its moments but overall seems so calculated to impress that it loses all other reason for being.
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30
Washington Post Desson Thomson
Let's wait for a movie where they do get it all right: story, acting and dancing. It'll happen, just not this time.
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30
Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt
If we don’t stop these public dance-offs here and now, before too long we’re going to have an entire generation of kids seeking salvation as back-up dancers for Justin Timberlake
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 40 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Talitha F. gave it a10:
I loved this movie. The dancing was awesome, I wish I could dance like that. Those people are the best dancers i have ever seen in my life I will never forget it!!!

Rachel K. gave it an8:
The acting wasn't amazing because they aren't trained professional actors. on the other hand, the dancing was absolutely fantastic.

Meaghan H. gave it a10:
This is the best movie i have ever seen.

Bara S. gave it an8:
Better than the first one. Love it! The last scene - in rain -is totally fabulous!

Ryan S. gave it a1:
This is the kind of garbage that our youth think is cool? Wow, I feel bad for my fellow teenagers then. This movie sucks so bad, I don't know where to begin. All the people giving this high reviews have no idea what the word cinematography means and clearly never want to learn it. They would rather watch mindless crap (the plot) with a touch of cardiovascular aerobics and ass shaking (the "dancing.") Don't get me wrong, I like a good ass shaking myself, but I don't need to go pay $9.50 for it. I can get that in real life, or worse comes to worst the internet for free. This movie is for idiotic teenie-bopper girls with nothing better going on in their real life... yea maybe one day you'll be in this girls shoes... only you'll be a stripper at a dirty nasty strip club in the ghetto.

Miranda H. gave it a10:
I loved it. There was some cussing but the amazing dance moves made up for it. There was everything in it from love to determination and the best movie I have seen in a while.

Ross S. gave it a9:
It is a predictable movie, maybe saw it before, but still it's an attracting movie for dancer.

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