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“It’s hard not to watch in wonder at some of the dancing in Step Up 2 The Streets,” admitted BBC Films of this lightfooted cinematic spectacle.

“It’s pretty awesome, enough to make some terrible acting and even clunkier dialogue bearable until the next hoofing sequence.”

The sequel to 2006’s Step Up, this is perhaps as formulaic as films get, but then formula suits this particular type of movie perfectly.

Like Flashdance and Fame before it, Step Up 2: The Streets stretches the boundaries of believability by effectively suggesting that every misunderstanding between human beings, even those that could spill into violence, can be solved with a quick and nifty shimmy on the dancefloor.

The plot (such as it is) revolves around Andie (Brianna Evigan), a member of the 410, a crack team of – wait for it – outlaw bodypoppers, who are desperate to gain entrance to her local dance school.

It’s there that she meets Chase (Robert Hoffman), and promptly swoons.

“The breakdancing scenes are nifty, but the drama that connects them is so basic that fans of this sort of thing might as well stay at home and watch MTV instead,” suggested The Times.

And while the Guardian admitted that “the choreography itself is exhilarating”, Empire confirmed that the film “suffers from a lack of real charisma, but the dance bits are good”.

Yes, the dance bits are good. Compare and contrast them with the dancing you’ll find on an average episode of Strictly Come Dancing, and the dance bits are positively rhapsodic.

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