Step Up: All In (2014)


First of all, I am not a fan of the Step Up series, in fact I dislike the Step Up series since watching the 3rd one, disliking grew through the 4th, and now the debut of this 5th, I think the whole series is certified. 
Every one of the SU seemed to have a theme, wanted to present something more than a corny movie, let’s see. SU 1 had a simple story with some decent dancing, SU2 had a predictable story too with average dancing, SU3 had a not-so-believable story with a little dancing plus some uses of tiny gears to spice up the dances, SU4 had an unrealistic story and more use of effect on dances, now SU5 does not have a story but abundant use of effects.
With all the flamboyance, can you see the dancing? There were shots of swinging bodies flipping hair, a lot of R & B, but where was the dancing? There was some dancing of course, the point is stage effect had already captured you and you would not be able to enjoy the art in its pure form. But no, I am not saying that I did not enjoy effects, but if that was the thing I was looking for, Guardians of the Galaxy, or anything with the Marvel logo would do. It sells itself a dance movie, implies the market that it would be the best DANCE movie you ever watch, but sadly, it only brings the opposite. 

Individual dances were all fine, they sprinkled zest but they just popped up seemed to message me like ‘this is a dance movie, so here are the dances you are waiting for’. The choreography was actually not bad, but when other elements need to be fused in, the dance itself seemed to be buried. The use of visual effect is a brilliant idea for shows, my point is when we go for competition, when the judges are looking for would not be the sand, the fire and the wind but how well the dancers are. Okay, maybe I missed the fact that ‘the competition’ is probably an entertaining performance more than a ‘dance competition…
Sum it all up, I like watching street dance and expect a dance is a dance but not a circus performance.

 p.s. This is completely personal opinion.
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