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75Human-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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Isn't nearly as entertaining as it is predictable.
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70The 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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70Directed 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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70Rather 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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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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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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58Scores 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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50Unabashedly earnest, completely predictable and packed with enough high-voltage dance scenes to make any audience applaud.
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50A 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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50The 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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50Step 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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50The 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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50Much 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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50The only reason to watch Step Up 2 the Streets, and I mean the only reason, is Briana Evigan.
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An earnest sequel to the 2006 cornball musical drama "Step Up," mixing new characters into the original's setting.
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50The central romance is terminally bland, while Evigan's woozy family melodrama seems borrowed from countless superior dance movies.
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38The 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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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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30Let'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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this is way much better than the first movie
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BenD.8It is a well thought out film, i like it, it is full of young beautiful girls, dancing, it is the film of the outlaws who fight for their rights.
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ShaunaR.10I really love this film, their dancing is amazing i would love to be able to dance like that, i also love dancing and this film is just the best.