‘Step Up Revolution’ Review: A Fun Dance Flick

I have to admit it, I was not at all excited about going to see this movie. As much as I’m a fan of dance films (my favorites include Center Stage and Dirty Dancing), paying to go see them in theaters is pushing it. Why spend so much money on something that is sure to include terrible acting and a lot of fake drama? I can just watch it at home and fast forward to the awesome parts of the movie – the dancing scenes. There are three other Step Up movies before this sequel, and most of them are terrible. The original Step Up is hands down the best of the lot because it is graced with the star power of Channing Tatum. It’s the first movie I remember seeing him in and he’s a fantastic actor and dancer (for further proof see Magic Mike). But seeing as we’re now fourth down the line of the franchise, most of that star power will have faded. The fact that it’s in 3D adds to the feeling that studios are simply pushing the same crap in order to make money off us silly people. The trailer certainly looks like it has some cool dance scenes, but the more complicated the dance numbers are means the use of more talented dancers – which means that acting talent is probably thin on the ground. But throwing caution to the wind, I checked out the movie anyway – even paying extra for the 3D. Hopefully my “great dancing = bad acting” theory is incorrect.  I’ve certainly been wrong before…. (click the link above to read more)