Step Up – the dance movie

I really love this opening sequence for the movie step up. Not a new movie at all(2006), but available on DVD now and Step Up is a great dance flick that showcases many different styles with a great cast of dancers and choreographers. And yes, a good amount of Dirty Dancing. Directed by Anne Fletcher, the movie has a simple plot and maybe overdone plot about following your dreams, and of course, being from the wrong side of the tracks while trying to go from criminal loser to top dance “”winner”, but who cares, this flick is all about the moves and the dance and this cast dances their butts off.

This is the cast below…

Channing Tatum … Tyler Gage
Heavy D … Omar
Jenna Dewan … Nora Clark
Damaine Radcliff … Mac Carter
De’Shawn Washington … Skinny Carter
Mario … Miles Darby
Drew Sidora … Lucy Avila
Rachel Griffiths … Director Gordon
Josh Henderson … Brett Dolan
Tim Lacatena … Andrew
Alyson Stoner … Camille

In 2007 the film won a Teen Choice award.

From IMDB, the plot goes like this…

In Baltimore, the troublemaker and street dancer Tyler Gage lives with his foster parents in an Afro-American lower class neighborhood. His best friends are Mac Carter and his little brother Skinny Carter and they use to hang around together, going to parties and stealing cars. After being expelled of a party, the trio breaks in the Maryland School of Arts and commits vandalism, destroying the stage. Tyler is arrested and sentenced to 200 hours of community service in the school and Director Gordon assigns him to help the janitor cleaning the place. One afternoon, the ballet dancer Nora Clark sees Tyler dancing in the parking area and when her partner Andrew has a strain and Tyler offers to help her in the choreography, she accepts the offer; they rehearsal and become close to each other while Tyler becomes friend of the students Miles Darby and Lucy Avila. When Andrew returns, Tyler that is known for quitting everything he starts gives up dancing and leaves Nora alone. After an incident, Tyler has to decide to follow his dream or return to his life of rebel loser.

Anyway, if you love dance, don’t miss this flick.