Every once in a while, I decide to do a review of a book or something that inspires me. Well, the movie Step Up Revolution inspired me to create a new Fibromyalgia graphic, so I thought I'd write and share a review of the movie.
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| My Daughters In Front of The Step Up Revolution Poster |
Step Up Revolution 3D is the fourth in the series of Step Up
movies. My family decided this would be
the perfect movie for us to go to (with both of my daughters currently in dance
classes, and my step-mom and I former dancers this totally makes sense at least
for my family), so we went and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed
the choreography and creativity.
The plot of the movie is pretty generic; rich girl moves to
town and meets working boy who has a crew of friends that hang out at the beach
and dance, falls in love, and dance together. But then rich girls greedy dad
tries to develop the land where the working boy lives into a major business Mecca
and working boy and rich girl team up to thwart greedy dad, but then rich girl
and working boy have conflict and break up. So who’s going to stop her greedy
real estate developing Dad?
The dancing is the primary star of this movie and it is
phenomenal. The choreography is incredible.
The film direction and 3d effects are fantastic. Everything is really good actually, except
the plot and the level of acting from most of the actors and actresses.
Kathryn McCormick is the female star and plays the rich girl
named Emily (awesome character name!). I
first saw Kathryn on So You Think You Can Dance. I loved the dances she was in
on So You Think You Can Dance, particularly the Jar of Hearts dance, the Bollywood
dance (I’m a sucker for Bollywood dances-I like all of them), and the 2 Steps
Away dance. She was one of my favorites
of the season, so I was delighted to see her in this movie.
The working boy is played by Ryan Guzman, who is new to
acting. However, he is very good looking
and can certainly move his body. I’ve
heard that he was a mixed martial arts fighter previously, but didn’t have much
dance experience. Interestingly in the
movie, despite having to work for a living as a waiter, he is able to dance
24/7 at any given moment and helps run The Mob, a flash mob dance crew that
seems to have an unlimited budget when it comes to costumes, lighting, music,
and more.
The rich greedy dad is played by Peter Gallagher. He plays the part perfectly as the dad who
loves his daughter, but has gotten so focused on his business enterprises that he’s
stopped listening to her. Dad thinks Emily’s dream to become a professional dancer
is unrealistic and thinks she should follow his footsteps in the business world
instead.
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| Escalator Part of the Building Dance |
The dance scenes are really fun and creative. The
choreography is sensational. I love the
scenes in the museum and in the lobby of the building.
I did find it a little hard to buy the
premise that no-one could figure out who The Mob was or that they were about to
dance. I mean really, a whole bunch of dancer types standing around a building
looking like they’re about to break into dance at any moment seems pretty
obvious. But I liked the dancing and
choreography so much, that I really didn’t focus on the absurdity of some of
the premise.
This is a great dance movie.
Not a great plot. The acting is OK, typical teenage oriented fare, but the choreography and dancing are
fantastic.
We went to see the 3D version, which I normally avoid,
because it’s usually more annoying than cool, but the 3d effects in Step Up Revolution
actually enhanced the movie and in my opinion made it even better. Plus the moments when my ten year old was
reaching her hand into the air to touch the dancers and dancing along with her
arms were priceless!
So I enjoyed the movie enough, that the pain of sitting in movie seats and staying as still as possible for the duration, was worth it. If I were going to rate it on a system of stars with 5 stars being perfect and 0 stars being horrible, I'd give it 4 stars, because the dancing and choreography was inspired!
Do other people with Fibromyalgia find sitting in movie theaters difficult?
Emily,
ReplyDeleteI LOVE dance movies. If the dancing is good enough, I don't even care about the plot, because they are usually blah and predictable. It's really not realistic to expect people who have only focused on honing their craft at dancing to be good at acting, especially if most of them are very young and without formal arts education where they would get exposed to more than just their artistic genre.
Movie theaters, yeah, not a whole lot of fun, especially if the three year old is with me. Shorter movies are better for comfort. Between the expense and discomfort I tend to avoid them most of the time. I did go to see Brave with my daughters though, which inspired a post of my own. Funny how movies can do that. lol
Thanks for sharing your findings.
Be well,
Kina
I LOVE dance movies too. You're right very few of them have a great plot. I haven't actually seen Brave yet. To be honest I go to the movies approximately once every two to three months, if that. It hurts me, so unless it is a movie that has captured my imagination and I really want to see it, I usually wait for the DVD. I'm also glad my girls are older now, when they were younger, it could be a challenge just to keep them in their seats at the movies!
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