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You Got Served
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37 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 24 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 24
  3. Negative: 8 out of 24
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    The heart of the movie, however, is the dancing, which is as spontaneous as it is spectacular, incorporating considerable gymnastics.
  2. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    60
    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.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Brown
    58
    The story is so bored with itself, it collapses -- but the diverse troupe of dance talents at least makes it an eclectic slide.
  4. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Ellen A. Kim
    58
    Just pretend the acting scenes are commercial breaks, and you'll be fine.
  5. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Carla Meyer
    50
    A street-dance film that's lively and silly and about as "street" as a Britney Spears video.
  6. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    Part soap opera and part thriller, and it has the unique characteristic of being both undeveloped and overwritten.
  7. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    50
    The beauty of You Got Served is that it delivers the moves from every vantage point.
  8. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    50
    A thinly written, hoarily cliched story that serves mostly as connective tissue between the movie's chief draw, its dazzling dance sequences.
  9. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    40
    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.
  10. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Angel Cohn
    40
    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.
  11. Empire
    Reviewed by: Olly Richards
    40
    If you pay out money to see this, you got fleeced.
  12. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    40
    Seems stuck in fad mode, a showcase in search of a movie.
  13. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    40
    Offers viewers a trade-off: half an hour of phenomenal dancing in exchange for an hour of atrocious drama.
  14. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    40
    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.
  15. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    40
    A serviceable youth pic that's marginally less dumb than November's urban quasi-musical "Honey."
  16. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    40
    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.
  17. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert K. Elder
    38
    When a movie keeps repeating its title, you know it's a stinker.
  18. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    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.
  19. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Jason Anderson
    38
    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.
  20. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    38
    The astonishing brio and verve of street dancing deserves better than this.
  21. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    30
    Just as clichéd as its predecessor, and lacks the old-school charm of films like "Wild Style" and "Breakin’."
  22. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    25
    This amateurish drama about street-dance contests and busted friendship is about as real as Lil' Kim's chest.
  23. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    25
    Cliched, amateurish and feeble.
  24. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: David Hiltbrand
    25
    Rarely do you encounter a movie without a shred of originality. You Got Served is such a cinematic vacuum.
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7.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 87 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 47
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 47
  3. Negative: 12 out of 47
  1. TTW107
    5
    I watch this movie only for the dancing, well and steve harvey haha. Other then the dancing the movie is excruciatingly bad. Every movie like this someone dies and at the end it has to go down to a tie and a showdown.… Full Review »
  2. ZiftK.
    3
    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.… Full Review »
  3. Sam
    10
    That was the best dancing movie i've ever seen. The story line sucks but the dancing made the movie, it was tight!
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