Street Dance 3D

Take a hot girl, doesn't matter if she can act but make sure she can dance, once you have one, congratulations, you now have a female lead in your dance movie, now rinse and repeat for your male lead, I call it the “Step Up Rule” and this is the only part that Street Dance 3D does actually step up too, because I can't begin to explain how gorgeous Nichola Burnley is. She plays Carly, who is left in charge of her street dance crew after her dick of her boyfriend bails right before the finals. Due to her spunky attitude she manages to impress Charlotte Rampling's character and secure a room in her prestigious ballet school, but there is a catch, Carly must include 5 of the schools best ballet students in her act. If all this mixing ballet and street dance together seems familiar, then chances are you have probably watched Step Up, this movie does feel like a low budget version of a Step Up movie but with some very welcome British humour, unfortunately Street Dance doesn't fulfil what I want from a decent dance movie, the dancing never blows you away, sure they are talented but nothing that will wow the audience, which is surprising considering the dancers that appear in the movie. Diversity is advertised as practically staring in the movie but only appear as a cameo, Flawless are built up throughout the movie as being the best street dancers in the UK, but even there performances are forgettable and a little dull. Of course this will disappoint the 99% of people watching this for the dancing, but not the 1% of people who will now check out the movie to see Nichola Burnley.              



There you go 1%, I just saved you time.

As for the performances, they all do a great job of being the archetypical characters we have all seen in other dance movies, we have the love interest, the stuck up teachers at the ballet school, who don't understand street dance and much prefer to teach ballet with the stick that has been lodged up there arses, the sassy black best friend, and the dickish boyfriend who takes the reward for being the dumbest villain ever. SPOILOR His master plan is to stop sleeping with his gorgeous girlfriend ( Carly) so he can join another dance group, and go up against her at the finals.

As I mentioned in my Step Up 3D review, I have always avoided dance movies, I assumed they were movies with no plot broken up with boring dance routines and horrible dialogue and if it wasn't for Step Up 3D blowing me away last year this movie would confirm my thoughts. I would still recommend this to a fan of dance movies, but with a lacklustre finale in which they dubstep classical music you would have to be a real hardcore lover of these movies to enjoy this one.

Danny Baker

Danny@dragoose.co.uk