#STEP UP MOVIES ARE STUPID UPGRADE#

Since the feature is one of the very few live-action titles on the market that was legitimately designed for the 3D format, most owners of 3D HDTVs will consider this early title a no-brainer to maximize enjoyment of their sets, and Disney wisely uses the combo pack set to encourage those planning on an eventual 3D HDTV upgrade to invest now, since they can enjoy in the interim the regular Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copies of the flick. As for those other hundred: Dance 10, Smarts 3.Дistributor: Walt Disney Home EntertainmentДisney capitalizes on the most salient feature of Step Up 3D with a value-packed Blu-ray + Blu-ray 3D + DVD + Digital Copy combo pack. Those few minutes might just make the other hundred worth it.

#STEP UP MOVIES ARE STUPID MOVIE#

Set to a remix of Fred Astaire's 'I Won't Dance,' the city-street sequence drifts further from reality and closer to magic, as if the golden age of movie musicals were suddenly alive and well again. And yet, it had what may have been my favorite scene at the movies this year: a highly impressive one-take dance duet for Sevani and Stoner.

Okay, so Step Up 3D is incredibly stupid in just about every way. This allows Luke and Natalie's foreplay to consist of making slushie drinks defy gravity (Chu often uses a bird's-eye view to goose the movie with 3D trickery).

Put let's not forget that Step Up 3D is, y'know, in 3D. Chu may not bring the noise or the funk, but he does bring what seem like outtakes from a lost post-apocalyptic cyberpunk movie: we are beyond Thunderdome here, people! We get a waterdance, a masked tango to 'Bust Your Windows,' and a dance sequence whose light-up costumes imply a not-so-sublminal advertisement for TRON: Legacy. The pose-heavy dance sequences are memorably ridiculous, more likely to inspire giggles than awe. It's all cheesier than a Kraft factory, with godawful dialogue and ultra-predictable plotting (What? The dance contest is the same time as my English test? Oh, snap!).Д«ut there's a kind of camp appeal to it all. And of course Luke will discover his own love interest: joiner Natalie (Sharni Vinson) falls hard for Luke's so-soulful artiness, but she harbors a secret loyalty that will complicate their budding love. Impressed by Luke's sneaker collection-enough to put Imelda Marcos to shame-Moose can't resist joining the Pirates, though the intense training threatens his NYU education and his relationship with Camille. (The House of Pirates' natural enemy: nasty ol' House of Samurai.) Luke's crew, The House of Pirates, is prepping for the World Jam Dance Battle, with its prize of $100,000 earmarked to save the team's super-cool clubhouse, a sort of loft/amusement park where the rent is five months overdue. These characters live in a New York that's not unlike the one in West Side Story: dance gangs throw down at the drop of a hat, stoke ongoing rivalries, and make plans to meet for a climactic 'two will enter, one will leave' showdown. Moose finds a new hero to worship in amateur filmmaker/dance hunk Luke (Rick Malambri), who feels like he was 'born from a boombox' (also the title of his magnum opus dance documentary). Sevani), now paired as a cutesy couple of NYU freshmen (they're meant for each other, though he doesn't know it yet). So there's that.ДЄlso making return appearances are Step Up's Camille (Alyson Stoner) and Step Up 2 the Streets' funny-guy Moose (Adam G. And the Zoltar machine from Big makes a cameo. Absurd as it is, this sequel has the added-value gimmick of limbs that burst from the screen, and though original Step Up star Channing Tatum doesn't go for a three-fer, Glee's star hoofer Harry Shum, Jr, does. So far be it from me to stand between the people and Step Up 3D. People like 'em,and they're cheap to make. And there can be only one good reason for this: they're a good financial investment. The dance movie has moved so far into clichГ© that it has earned its own parody movie (last year's Dance Flick), but Hollywood has continued, unabated, in churning out dance pictures.

Step up movies are stupid