Plot
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.
Release Year: 2012
Rating: 5.7/10 (2,002 voted)
Critic's Score: 43/100
Director:
Scott Speer
Stars: Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman, Cleopatra Coleman
Storyline The Mob sets the dancing against the vibrant backdrop of Miami. Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations of becoming a professional dancer and soon falls in love with Sean, a young man who leads a dance crew in elaborate, cutting-edge flash mobs, called "The Mob". When a wealthy business man threatens to develop The Mob's historic neighborhood and displace thousands-of people, Emily must work together with Sean and The Mob to turn their performance art into protest art, and risk losing their dreams to fight for a greater cause.
Writers: Duane Adler, Amanda Brody
Cast: Cleopatra Coleman
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Penelope
Misha Gabriel Hamilton
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Eddy
(as Misha Gabriel)
Ryan Guzman
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Sean
Michael 'Xeno' Langebeck
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Mercury
Stephen Boss
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Jason
(as Stephen 'tWitch' Boss)
Claudio Pinto
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Francisco
Nicole Dabeau
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Newscaster
Chris Charles
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Lamborghini Diver
Katie Peterson
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People by the Ocean
Alejandro Posada
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People by the Ocean
Marc Macaulay
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Uniformed Cop
Tommy Dewey
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Trip
Mario Ernesto Sánchez
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Ricky
Sabina V. Gomez
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Ricky's Mother
Dominique Bell
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Sarah
When the original Step Up film debuted it was a surprise hit and gave
the world Channing Tatum, but no one ever thought it would become a
franchise. After two successful sequels, it comes as no shock that they
decided to churn out another one with Step Up Revolution. Much like the
second film in the series, they once again changed up the cast, but
also the direction of the dancing itself. Could this latest entry be as
entertaining as the previous films or will it be the one that finally
closes the curtain? Step Up Revolution follows a girl aspiring to be a
professional dancer who falls in love with the leader of a flash mob
dance crew. When a wealthy business man threatens to build a hotel in
the neighborhood of the crew, they must work together to use their
dance as protest art to try and stop him. If this story sounds familiar
it should it was pretty much the same story from Breakin 2: Electric
Boogaloo with just some minor changes. The previous films in this
series managed to stay pretty entertaining even without Tatum thanks to
the great dance sequences and the likable talented Adam Sevani who
played Moose. Sadly, he has taken a very distant back seat to this
latest edition to the franchise. The cast leading this movie seem to
really struggle trying to make this work. There is no chemistry between
anyone and their performances were subpar at best. In reality though
the dance is what people come to see in these films and usually can
make up for that, but here even most of that is a bit off. Even with a
rehash of a story that's been done hundreds of times, the thought of
the flash mob dancing is a good one, but just not executed all that
well. With the exception of the opening sequence and the final sequence
the rest of the performances not only come off not all that
entertaining, but even more so unbelievable. The majority of this film
lives in the land of make believe and has no way of making the viewer
believe that they could pull off what they did.
This is easily the weakest edition to this franchise with little to no
redeeming quality. It's not the worst film ever made or anything and
some fans of the franchise are sure to enjoy it, but just doesn't work.
The end sequence, while also not being all that believable to pull off
in the time they supposedly did it, still manages to entertain thanks
mostly to some not so surprising fan favorites.
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