Monday, April 30, 2012

Step Up Series

With Step Up 4 hitting our screens this summer i thought i would take a look back at the previous 3 films in the series.

Step Up
The first film in the franchise is set around the main characters Tyler (Channing Tatum) and Nora (Jenna Dewan now Jenna Dewan-Tatum). Troubled teen Tyler is the bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks, he and his friends decide to break into to Maryland School of Arts, which leads to Tyler getting caught and sentenced to community service as a cleaner at the school where he meets Nora one of the dance students who has previously seen Tyler dancing in the parking lot, Nora's dance partner gets injured and Tyler steps in to help her out making some new friends along the way. The love story that blossoms between the two main characters is a little predictable but is great to watch their story evolve. Plus the dance scenes are really good!!!
Step Up 2: The Streets
The second film in the franchise is still set at Maryland School of Arts (MSA) but with a new set of characters. This time around the main character is Andie (Briana Evigan), she has just lost her mum and is now living with her mums closest friend Sarah. The only thing that she cares about is dancing with her crew, Sarah has given Andie and ultimatum to clean up her attitude and go to school or she is getting shipped of to Texas. A cameo appearance by Channing Tatum and Andie is excepted into (MSA) where she meets the kids that don't quite conform to the school and they decided to make their own crew, led by Chase (Robert Hoffman) to compete at 'The Streets' against Andie's old crew. You can't really compare this film to the first one because they are both different dance style wise, but the same storyline is there with the development of the relationship between the main characters Andie and Chase. My favourite character in this is Moose (Adam G Sevani) he has some great moments with all the characters and is really funny. Just like the first one the dancing is incredible so check it out!!!
Step Up 3D
This time around we find ourselves in New York as Moose (Adam G Sevani) heads to University with his best friend Camille Gage (Alyson Stonner), who if you have seen the first one is Tyler's little sister. Moose soon gets into trouble and is saved by Luke (Rick Malambri) the leaded of a tight nit street dance crew called the House of Pirates are battling against their enemies the House of Samurai at the World Jam battle. Luke meets Natalie (Sharni Vinson) and recruits her into the his crew. The storyline from this film where you see the relationship between two people coming together through dance, in the case of this film you can see the relationship of two characters changing, the main characters of Luke and Natalie and the best friends Moose and Camille. The dancing in this film has gotten bigger and better from the previous films, with the MSA crew joining forces with the Pirates to win the World Jam and to save the Pirates home. I can not give enough praise for this film its my favourite out of the whole series so far the dancing is spectacular and the characters keep getting better and better. So you need to watch it!!!

If you haven't seen the trailer for Step Up Revolution yet then check it out because its going to be EPIC!!!

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