Step Up 2 The Streets

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Director: Jon M Chu

Stars: Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Will Kemp

Year: 2008 Running Time: 97 mins Rating:

Rebellious street dancer Andie (Briana Evigan) has the tough choice of enrolling at a stuffy drama school...or being exiled to Texas. Opting for the educational route, she is forced to quit her roots in Baltimore's guerrilla 410 Crew...but sees a way back by persuading her classmates to form their own dance party and enter key contest The Streets. This high-energy sequel to Step Up boasts impressive street shimmying set-pieces and a likeable performance from Evigan as the teen with split loyalties.

Review

Gritty teenage bopper Andie (Evigan) is an outcast living with her late mother's mate but who regards the street-dancing 410 Crew as her real family.

Like a sort of high-stepping guerrilla gang, their stock-in-trade is launching into complicated routines to the surprise of commuters on Baltimore's rapid transport system. Think an edgy Pan's People going off on one on the Metropolitan Line.

But Andie's not making her grades...and is threatened with internal exile in - deep breath - Texas. Offered the option of studying her craft at the Maryland School of Arts, Andie reluctantly agrees to go along and spare herself a trip to the Lone Star State.

However, this waltz into the mainstream doesn't go down well with her street buddies and she's expelled from the crew. What is a swaggering, swivel-hipped urban hoofer to do? Well, recruit a rival gang from her school buddies and hit back. Go get 'em girl.

Tim Evans