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You Got Served
Screen Gems Inc.

You Got Served reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 37 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.0 out of 10
based on 24 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for thematic elements and sexual references

Starring Marques Houston, Omarion, J-Boog, Raz-B, Lil Fizz, Steve Harvey, Jennifer Nicole Freeman, and Meagan Good

A new fable for the hip hop age, where the best street dancers pit their moves and their passion for a chance to turn their talent into their dreams. (Screen Gems)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Musical  
WRITTEN BY: Chris Stokes  
DIRECTED BY: Chris Stokes  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: May 18, 2004 
Video: May 18, 2004 
Theatrical: January 30, 2004 
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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70
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
The heart of the movie, however, is the dancing, which is as spontaneous as it is spectacular, incorporating considerable gymnastics.
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60
Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
Director Christopher B. Stokes (House Party 4) shapes up the fabulous dance sequences with undeniable energy, and real-life brothers Houston and Grandberry are two of the most enjoyable musicians to appear onscreen since Sting played a bellboy.
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58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Ellen A. Kim
Just pretend the acting scenes are commercial breaks, and you'll be fine.
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58
Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown
The story is so bored with itself, it collapses -- but the diverse troupe of dance talents at least makes it an eclectic slide.
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50
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Part soap opera and part thriller, and it has the unique characteristic of being both undeveloped and overwritten.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
A street-dance film that's lively and silly and about as "street" as a Britney Spears video.
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50
Washington Post Ann Hornaday
A thinly written, hoarily cliched story that serves mostly as connective tissue between the movie's chief draw, its dazzling dance sequences.
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50
Premiere Peter Debruge
The beauty of You Got Served is that it delivers the moves from every vantage point.
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40
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Offers viewers a trade-off: half an hour of phenomenal dancing in exchange for an hour of atrocious drama.
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40
TV Guide Angel Cohn
Ultimately Stokes remains true to his music video roots and relies on the film's flashy voltage dance scenes and frenetic pacing to keep viewers' attention from wandering.
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40
LA Weekly Robert Abele
Seems stuck in fad mode, a showcase in search of a movie.
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40
The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
Assembling this vehicle for his young clients, music producer/manager/video director Christopher B. Stokes has attached an anemic plot to a series of dynamic hip-hop dance sequences.
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40
Variety Dennis Harvey
A serviceable youth pic that's marginally less dumb than November's urban quasi-musical "Honey."
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40
The New York Times Dave Kehr
Will probably keep its core audience of suburban teenagers mildly entertained for the course of its 93 minutes. Urban grumps, however, may be distracted by Mr. Stokes's annoyingly overedited execution of the dance sequences.
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40
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The performers all move a lot better than they talk, which is bad news for the insipid melodrama but good news whenever the characters hit the floor in furious competitions between rival crews.
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40
Empire Olly Richards
If you pay out money to see this, you got fleeced.
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38
Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
When a movie keeps repeating its title, you know it's a stinker.
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38
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
The astonishing brio and verve of street dancing deserves better than this.
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38
USA Today Claudia Puig
It's too bad more energy wasn't devoted to fleshing out the one-dimensional characters and crafting a decent script. The only reason to catch this harmless diversion is for the group dance sessions.
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38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
There ain't much to You Got Served, but at least this teensploitation flick is bookended by two frenzied sequences that fully exploit the visual potential of street dancing.
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30
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Just as clichéd as its predecessor, and lacks the old-school charm of films like "Wild Style" and "Breakin’."
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25
Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand
Rarely do you encounter a movie without a shred of originality. You Got Served is such a cinematic vacuum.
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25
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
This amateurish drama about street-dance contests and busted friendship is about as real as Lil' Kim's chest.
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25
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Cliched, amateurish and feeble.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 87 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Zift K. gave it a3:
Garbage. It's as if, every single dance movie is CRAP. The only reason this gets a 3 is because some dance moves looked cool. Other than that, total crap. So when people go to these movies, and the producers seem to think that the actual public like it, this just makes them make even crappier movies. So, if you go to watch these movies, you're part of the problem. join forces with us (people that don't stand for this garbage), and say no to ass movies, don't let them to this to us.

Sam gave it a10:
That was the best dancing movie i've ever seen. The story line sucks but the dancing made the movie, it was tight!

Shontavia J. gave it a10:
I loved your movie. It's showd how no matter what comes in between you and you friends. thier isn't that will stand in the way of true friendship because it wins everytime.

breanna gave it a7:
It's was alright. i liked the dancing. if you r into hip-hop u would of loved it! i hope they come out wit a part 2.

Kidd J. gave it a10:
It was great! I like the hip-hop and the dance.

J gave it a0:
God this movie sucks. It's like watching some T.V. sitcom, except even worse.

ian c. gave it a10:
If you dont like Hip-pop dancing, dont watch, for me, I like dance movie.

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