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| Year: 2007 |
| Director: Sylvain White |
| Cast: Columbus Short, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Meagan Good, Brian J. White, Laz Alonso, Allan Louis, Harry J. Lennix, Oliver Ryan Best, Richmond Duain Martyn, Justin Hires, |
| Genres: Romance, Musical, Family, Crime, Adventure |
| Runtime: 109 min. |
| IMDB: This film on IMDB |
| Wallpapers: available |
After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition. |
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| Date: 2007-03-14 05:06:59 |
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| when is this going to be avalable |
| Date: 2008-01-20 03:09:20 |
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Is there really a world where gang members and hip college students' lives are centered around often-absurd group-choreographed "dance-off" parties? Sure, it's good exercise for kids (and the athleticism and choreography in the film are impressive), but it's difficult for me to believe that this is really going on. Maybe we're going to see a craze for this now as we had similar crazes in the wake of Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Urban Cowboy (1980)?
Of course, it doesn't have to be about reality for me to think it's a good film, but the problem here is that the dance-off, or "stomp", sections are incredibly bizarre, yet they're played completely straight. You'd only have to notch it up slightly to make a hilarious absurdist comedy out of this. The funniest parts are when the dancers effectively "trade insults" through choreography. It's not that I can't appreciate "dance-off" films. I love Saturday Night Fever, for example. And even the recent Roll Bounce (2005) was a great film.
But here the "dance-off" bits eat up the majority of screen time, and not only do the participants approach them in a deadly serious way, as if they care far more about them than anything imaginable--members of the opposite sex, other sports, other music . . . or how about concentrating on schoolwork?--but even people who aren't participating tend to react to the "stompers" like late 1950s teens in the presence of Elvis. And with Elvis, they at least had the excuse that they didn't go to school with him every day. There's also a hard-to-swallow militarism in the "stomping". Cadet Kelly (2002) featured something like this, but it made sense in that context. Maybe this should have been set at a military school?
A bigger problem (since the "stomping" as intentionally absurdist is something I'd probably rate relatively high) is that there's a decent, serious drama buried here. We get to explore it for about 15 - 20 minutes, but that's not enough. This could be quite a tear-jerker from many different angles, but instead, you find yourself continually asking "What planet is this on?" as director Sylvain White makes sure that we get more "stomping" every few minutes. |
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