Step Up: All In
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: August 8, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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3
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10
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyAug 8, 2014
It’s the rare movie that knows its limitations, but also understands how to use form to best convey its strengths, pulling together countless complicated dance scenes in which the relationships between teams and characters come through more clearly than they could through dialogue. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesInkoo KangAug 8, 2014
The film has a muscled buoyancy and thrilling, joyful spectacles that make the fifth installment of the popular franchise an energetic crowd-pleaser. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyKyle AndersonAug 8, 2014
The space between the spectacles are just too laborious, creating the odd sensation that there's not quite enough dance in this dance movie. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 8, 2014
The fifth entry in the popular dance-off franchise is, like the others, a fantasia that upends the usual rules of filmmaking. Here, the more threadbare the scenario, and the more unmotivated an action, the better. Character and story just get in the way of all the awesome dancing. Read full review
60
The TelegraphCharlotte RuncieAug 6, 2014
It’s preposterous, but I dare you not to smile at the high-kicking silliness on offer, or the sweetly old-fashioned undertones: as the inevitable final showdown looms, loyalty, hard work and fair play are just as important to the dancers as strutting their stuff. Read full review
50
The DissolveNathan RabinAug 8, 2014
The exuberant dance sequences have long been the series’ saving grace, but even those are starting to feel redundant and interchangeable. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireAug 8, 2014
Even by the standards of this franchise—and this genre in general—Step Up All In is pretty laughable. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAug 8, 2014
Step Up All In, directed by the dancer and choreographer Trish Sie, signals a slight retreat from the bonkers, protest-themed “Step Up Revolution." Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeJul 16, 2014
With even less plot than in previous installments to get in the way of its inventive 3D dance scenes, this fifth pic delivers on spectacle... but lacks in chemistry. Read full review
45
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeAug 8, 2014
Even if the big numbers in Step Up All In don't always hit the heights of its immediate predecessors, there are enough exultant moments – during the crew battles or Sean and Andie's pas de deux on a carnival ride — to tide you over until the inevitable Part Six. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonAug 14, 2014
Step Up All In cuts too fast, the way an MTV hack does when forced to disguise that a starlet can't move. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicPenny WalkerAug 8, 2014
The finale's energy level and actor buy-in makes it vastly more enjoyable than the rest of the film. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 6, 2014
This really doesn't have the fun or the zip of that earlier Miami adventure. The dialogue is even more tired and, crucially, the dance sequences themselves are looking less fresh this time around. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreAug 8, 2014
The best that can be said for “Step V” is that it has some sparkling moments of choreography, clever gimmicks as themes for the dance-offs and lovely costumes. Read full review
37
Washington PostMark JenkinsAug 8, 2014
First-time director Trish Sie, a music-video veteran, is more interested in spectacle than character, as she demonstrates even when nobody’s dancing. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAug 13, 2014
Because “all in” – to me, at least – suggests a certain standard of enthusiasm, of emphaticness, and what this latest Step Up movie indifferently chunks out falls far short of that standard. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijJul 16, 2014
It is unlikely that a lot of viewers come to see a Step Up film for convincing dialogue or psychological insight into a group of young things trying to make it big in a ruthless industry. But there’s barely any humor that doesn’t feel third-rate and most of the plot threads are so thin that All In occasionally feels like a satire of a dance film. Read full review
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