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.
3D has been kind to teen dance flicks and Step Up 4’s better set-pieces take full advantage. Shame the movie’s other attempts to tango with the zeitgeist are rather more flat-footed.
As with most movies in this genre, the film comes alive whenever the talking stops and the dancing starts but even then director Scott Speer lets his performers down by coming over needlessly flashy in the editing room.
The moves are slick as ever and fans will still flock to see the stunts, but the protest veneer doesn’t stop it feeling as dumb as a brick.
Preposterous, but the dancing is hot.
Nothing much here that you couldn't experience by watching 20 minutes of music television.
For a bunch of kids with no money, they seem to be able to afford souped-up automobiles and Broadway-standard costumes for these events. Never mind. It's all silly and good fun.
Great routines, silly story but it still delivers infectious, energetic 3-D escapism.
YouTube is now the streetdancers' launch platform. If the acting were as expressive as the dancing this lot would be world-beaters.
The choreographers are the heroes of this poorly scripted, energetically performed hip-hop musical.
Step Up 4's secret revolutionary message
General release. Check local listings for show times.