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Step Up 3D

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Step Up 3D reviews
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5.3 User Score:

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama  |  Romance

Written by: Amy Andelson
Emily Meyer

Directed by: Jon M. Chu

Release Date:
Theatrical: August 6, 2010

Running Time: 107 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for brief strong language

Starring Adam Sevani, Alyson Stoner, Rick Malambri, Sharni Vinson, Keith "Remedy" Stallworth, Kendra Andrews, Stephen "tWitch" Boss, and Joe Slaughter

New York's intense street dancing underground comes alive in eye-popping Digital 3D in the third installment of the "Step Up" franchise as the raw, passion-fueled culture goes global. A tight-knit group of street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best breakdancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever. (Touchstone Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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80

Time Out New York Keith Uhlich

It’s a contemporary movie musical that makes you feel genuinely sky-high.

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80

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

An exhilarating summer treat for all ages.

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75

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

It boasts a generous exuberance and, as entertainment products go, it's surprisingly sweet.

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67

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Step Up 3D isn't, in dramatic terms, a very good movie, but it's the first film in a while to use 3-D as more than a marketing ploy; it points toward an original way of making a musical.

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63

Washington Post Ylan Q. Mui

The main reason to see Step Up 3D is for the high-energy dancing and innovative camerawork, and on those points it delivers.

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63

USA Today Claudia Puig

Rhythmically, athletically and energetically, Step Up 3D does not disappoint.

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63

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

The actors, aside from Sevani, were clearly not cast for their mad acting skills.

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60

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

While several of the dance sequences admittedly pack a visual pop, the added dimension does the hokey scripting and some of the acting no favors by amplifying their already noticeable shortcomings.

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60

Variety Justin Chang

This vapid street-dance soap opera boasts the series' flashiest moves and klutziest script yet, like a brilliant acrobat with a speech impediment; it's also one of the few 3D releases since "Avatar" to make compelling use of the format.

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60

Boxoffice Magazine Pete Hammond

Back for a third go-around, the Step Up franchise is still as light on story as it is on its feet, but audiences looking to get a cinematic workout from the high-stepping action served up here could do a lot worse.

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60

Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

Director Jon Chu (Step Up 2 the Streets) ably exploits the 3D format, constantly moving the action forward and upward. The color and music also pop, as do scene stealers Martin and Facundo Lombard, Argentine twins whose comedic talents nearly match their dizzying footwork.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter

The third instalment of the Step Up dance-romance franchise shifts the action from Baltimore to New York, adds a D to the 3 and invades your space with bubbles, balloons and a whole lotta breakin’.

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

The advanced 3-D technology of today meets the mothballed clichés of yesteryear in Step Up 3D.

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50

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Aimed at teens and tweens, the almost-squeaky-clean Step Up 3-D shamelessly piles on the corn, stacking it so high that it's bound to tilt over and collapse.

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40

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

Sure, it's nifty enough to see dust particles swirling or hands swooshing at you, but mostly the 3-D muddles the invention and exquisiteness of the film's raison d'être: the dancing.

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40

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Step Up 3D is so lacking in any kind of edge, it might as well be "High School Musical: The Hip-Hop Edition."

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38

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

It’s the same movie as the earlier “gotta dance” over-choreographed crunk-and-breakdance epics. Exactly the same.

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38

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Watching this movie in 3-D is very much like sticking one’s head in a blender and hitting “pulse.’’

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30

The New York Times Mike Hale

The dancers may be skilled, but their work has no meaning in terms of the story -- it’s pure spectacle, and numbingly repetitive spectacle at that.

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30

LA Weekly Michelle Orange

Meant to take the scrappy and often ingeniously choreographed dance sequences to the next level, the result is stalled between floors: Some sick moves get even sicker; some become distorted and freakishly distracting.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli

In Step Up 3D, what's going on is: nothing.

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25

New York Post Kyle Smith

Step Up 3D is strictly 1D. Tired choreography and moldy hip-hop gestures accompany insipid characters.

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20

Slate Julia Turner

Preposterous plot devices, leaden acting, and clunktastic dialogue are acceptable in a dance movie, but bad choreography is not, and it's during the dance scenes that Step Up 3D fails.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 5.3 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Chad S. gave it a3:
They're only garbage can lids, but it's her garbage can lids; an old black woman, outside, sweeping her brownstone front, whom Moose(Adam G. Sevani) and Camille(Alyson Stoner) harass and taunt, as these NYU students disturb the aluminum covers, before throwing them to the ground, once they outlive their usefulness as appropriated percussions. The kids owe the townie an apology. With Fred Astaire's "I Won't Dance"(from William Seiter's "Roberta") playing over the soundtrack, the sense of entitlement that these freshmen demonstrate is easy to overlook. They're cute, adorable even, but self-involved, and oblivious of the people around them. Dislocated from its period, the archaic music, in conjunction with the film's New York setting, can't help but conjure up Woody Allen, who employs pre-rock and roll music in all of his movies, and more importantly, fancies the intellectual upper-class. Arguably, this seemingly harmless encounter is a case of class warfare. And the hubris doesn't stop there, as Moose and Camille then help themselves to a pair of in-line scooters, no doubt angering its young owners, turned off by the flippant affectedness of these hoofin' strangers, who heave the wheels across the sidewalk with practiced nonchalance. Appropriately, and ironically enough, the song and dance originates near a Mister Softee truck, since Moose and Camille owe these children(and the old lady) some frosty treats. Moose, an engineering major, can't concentrate on his studies, because Luke(Rick Malambri), a documentary filmmaker, distracts his protege, encouraging him to cut classes, perhaps, out of jealousy; perhaps, he yearns to be a film major and not the financeer of a fledgling dance troupe. If he's so talented, another Tarantino insists Natalie(Sharni Vinson), why doesn't she fill out a NYU application for him?

Mlou S gave it a10:
Incredible unbelievable choreography! makes ya want to get up & move! would see it again.

Ian R gave it a9:
An entertaining flick with probably the best 3D of any movie I've seen. Most 3D movies you get use to the effects but this movie will surprise you. Its as if they turned up the 3D effects to the max. The only bad thing about this movie is that the plot is predictable and some of the actors are horrible, but you watch this movie for the dancing anyways.

Alan G gave it a1:
Other than the 3-D dance moves, this movie sucks.

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