Recently released from juvenile detention, talented dancer Maria Ramirez finds an outlet for her passion with a new dance crew.
For all its killer choreography, alas, it's clear this genre urgently needs some new moves of its own.
The dancing is dazzling, but this genre needs to bust some new moves.
There are things the world urgently needs, and then there’s this sequel to a Jessica Alba vehicle about urban dance, which scrapes the barrel so thoroughly it doesn’t even star Jessica Alba.
It's an efficient movie that will satisfy its target fanbase, but this isn't a dance movie which sidesteps the cliches.
If you don’t like dance, you won’t like this.
Follow Jessica Alba's lead.
In all fairness the dance sequences have a certain energy and aggressiveness but the plot is predictable, the performances are bland and the dialogue makes your toes curl.
Alas, its low IQ dialogue and limp reaction shots merely fill in the gaps between the next round of dancefloor set-pieces.
A choreographed-within-an-inch-of-its-life teen flick.
This genre is now as conventionalised as kabuki and noh theatres in its acrobatic choreography and dramatic cliches.
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