Step Up All In (2014)

One of the worst movie of the year. This movie packed a mediocre plot and a poorly written script filled with interchangeable one dimensional characters and a love story had that no on screen chemistry. The dancing were amazingly choreographed but horribly shot. The dancing was so visually tiring that for the first time ever, I had to look away from the screen due to the nausea it was causing. The characters were so interchangeable to a point I never bothered to learn their names, in fact, I believe their names were only mentioned once in the entire movie. Surprisingly, the character I liked the most was the one that looked like Effie Trinket mashed with Nikki Minaj. Ladies and gentlemen, the Scary Movie of the performing arts genre.

Fmovies: How did a movie which received generally mediocre reviews on release spawn an entire franchise? That's a weighty question about the foibles and excesses of Hollywood that you can ponder while watching Step Up All In, the fifth Step Up movie about a boy and a girl finding love amidst the dance-breaks. As you might expect, it's as formulaic as they come, with some decently-choreographed dance sequences that break up the monotony of the film's so-called 'plot'.

Sean (Ryan Guzman) just wants to make a living as a dancer, but he and his crew - the Mob - keep coming up empty at auditions. When everyone else in the Mob finally decides to pack up and head back to Miami, Sean stays in LA and resolves to enter The Vortex - a spectacular dance competition that will guarantee its winners a three-year show in Las Vegas. Sean sets out to find a new group of dancers, including opinionated Andie (Briana Evigan), even as his buddy Moose (Adam Sevani) wavers between his steady job as an engineer and his own desire to cut loose on the dance-floor. But, once LMNTRIX is formed and makes it into the finals of The Vortex, Sean's single-minded devotion to winning starts to create tensions within the new group.

Along the way, there's shady Vortex host Alexxa Brava (Izabella Miko) and nominal villain Jasper (Stephen Jones), a conspiracy to rig the competition, and a budding romance - obviously - between Sean and the sensitive Andie, who doesn't want to win so much as just enjoy her time with her new dance crew. But it's all largely window dressing, packed around a hugely predictable plot. Group members pull out for personal reasons and return triumphantly at the last minute, characters learn lessons about finding your own kind of victory in a difficult world, people dance to fall in love and forget their problems.

The cast is mostly dutiful, yet lacks the spark and charm that so evidently set Channing Tatum on his route to stardom after the original Step Up. Guzman is handsome but, in playing his pivotal role, doesn't manage to muster up much in the way of emotion. Evigan is more effective as Andie, hinting a little at the tragedies and pain that go into dancing everyday for a living, while Sevani provides good comic support as Moose.

At least the dancing is fun to watch. Every so often, characters stop to cut a rug, and some of it is genuinely quite thrilling. The final performance by LMNTRIX (and others) is a spectacular choreography blow- out that gleefully encompasses everything from sand and fire to acrobatics, even as it wraps everything up in a pretty, predictable bow.

If you're looking for revolutionary, thought-provoking cinema, Step Up All In is very much not the movie for you. This is fluff of the first order - and not even of the first grade - that might occasionally entertain the unconverted and will certainly thrill long-time fans, but is unlikely to do a great deal more than that.

I will admit I was nervous, being a Step Up fan, that this was going to suck! Fortunately, it doesn't at all. It's fun,the music is great, and the end is maybe the best dance sequence of any of the films! I brought a couple of people with me to the movie that were not STEP UP fans and they sincerely thought it was good. O.K., the acting is poor, but you expect that ( to a certain extent) in films like this. But who cares? It adds to the campy love of the films. It's a fun movie and I love the fact they brought back many of the characters form the earlier films. If this doesn't succeed financially, it will be a shame. It's better than a lot of movies out there!

Step Up All In fmovies. Away from Miami into another dance competition that is. This is a direct sequel to the last Step up, which hadn't happened yet. The character Moose seems to be in all of them (and he is except for the first one, even if you could swear he was in every single one of them, like I did and thought), but other than that, there didn't seem to be a string/continuity apart from a story that seemed to be the same over and over again ... something a reviewer has stated here ... forgetting that Step Up Revolution tried to break the formula.

If that was successful or not we do get most of the same players (good guys) from the previous one, still looking for a job (and love apparently). And that's where this gets back to the classic story. With one minor "dent" if you want to call it that, which gets fixed by the end of it. There are some slick moves and I'm pretty sure some of the things will look great in 3D (only watched it in 2D though). Don't watch it for originality, only if you like the "genre"

Sweet baby Jesus, lord Christ almighty, WHY DO THEY KEEP ON MAKING DANCE MOVIES? THEY ARE ALL exactly THE SAME. let me illustrate... girl moves to new city, girl meets boy, girl likes dance,boy likes girl, girl plays hard to get.. every dances in some stupid competition, girl and boy end up together... does this ring a bell??? THEY ARE ALL THE SAME.. IDENTICAL.. NO VARIANCE. WHY DO they KEEP ON MAKING DANCE MOVIES.. THERE IS Nothing THAT THEY CAN SHOW THE AUDIENCE THAT HAS NOT ALREADY BEEN DONE.. OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN...

Please stop making these movies. You already stepped in a toilet already.

I was having a good time watching this,just like the feeling i had watching the previous one. Despite the lack of storytelling -which i didn't really expect about it- the dancing scenes were all amazing and satisfying for all step up fans.If they add water and electric element to their dance moves on the previous movies,now they bring fire,sand,and wind -yes,lots of wind-.The thing i like the most is that the crews are back,your favourite characters like moose,jenny kido,and andie.Thats what keeps me excited watching this movie,and as a step up fan,im really satisfied.The final dance was breathtaking and excellent.i couldn't stop listening to the soundtracks now.If you like to dance and a feel-good movie,watch this one.