Movie Review: Step Up Revolution

Step Up has been a series of movies that sometimes feel a little cliched, but the awesome dance moves and the funny moments can quickly makes us forget about the plot itself. Step Up Revolution is the 4th installment in the franchise, but it does fall a bit short when compared to the others. I've heard a lot of criticism on this movie saying that the franchise has gotten repetitive, so let's recap the stories. In the first one it was about a girl wanting to graduate the Maryland School of Arts (MSA) and her dream of belonging to a famous dance company, she also had a male lead who had fallen on rough times and through making a mistake he finds that he belongs in school (MSA) and proves he is more than a trouble maker, they dance awesome and they go on to join a dance company and travel the country. In the second movie we get a girl who has fallen on rough times and she finds herself having to join MSA and succeeding as a dancer and as a student or risk having to move away from her friends and basically her life. She also has a male lead a student that is gifted like the girl from the first movie and has a dream of being an awesome dancer but he wants to participate in a contest that is deemed unfit for society because only people from the streets dance in said contest and the contest is called "The Streets" so there's that too. In the end they win the contest and they pretty much make MSA acknowledge that "The Streets" is a legitimate contest and they live happily ever after. In the third movie, a character from the second movie by the name of Moose is the protagonist. Moose has stopped dancing to study electrical engineering at NYU. He sees a guy wearing a pair of shoes he likes and follows the guy for reasons yet unknown to any male that saw the movie, because come on man you're going crazy over shoes. He ends up in a dance battle by accident, we've all been there am I right? You're walking alone in the park just following some dude that has shoes you like and BAM! All of a sudden you're in a dance battle with a dude they call Kid Darkness and you just owned this guy with your awesome dance moves and the police is after you because your dance moves are a lethal weapon or something. Moose joins up with the guy who was wearing the pair of shoes he likes because he helps him escape from the cops and takes him to a warehouse full of homeless dancers. At this point any rational human being would be freaked out of their mind, but not Moose... he really wants those shoes. It turns out the warehouse is actually a club and Moose joins up with the dancers from the club to defeat this other crew that wants to take their warehouse and possibly the shoes. The movie introduces another male lead, the owner of the warehouse who just wants to save the warehouse and helps dancers that have fallen on hard times, it also has a female lead who is a very talented female dancer who has fallen on hard times so she joins the warehouse dancers. In the end it turns out the girl is rich and is the sister of the bad guy and the male lead is actually the one who has fallen on hard times and may lose his warehouse so Moose helps them win a dance contest and the dude leaves with the girl, he goes to film school and she's rich so she does some rich people stuff and Moose gets a girlfriend. In the fourth movie... picture everything I told you from the other movies but in one movie. We have an electrical engineer who does FX for the crew of the new male lead, amazing dancers that have fallen on hard times, a rich dancer girl, a male lead who wants to save something (his neighborhood) from the rich girl's dad who wants to demolish it to build hotels and stuff, they are trying to win a contest but not a dance contest but they want to win it by dancing... IN THE STREETS... and the rich girl wants to join a famous dance company, but it's not the same as other movies because no one is in love with shoes. So pretty much the critics are right it's a repetitive story, and the dancing was not as awesome as in the other movies, but it was still awesome. The story was weak and predictable but the dancing did help it move along, mainly because of how elaborate it was in using the settings they were in, from streets, to art galleries, to restaurants, etc. Step Up Revolution is a good movie but definitely not a must watch.

Drake's Reviews Score 7 out of 10