I thought this movie was great. I loved Channing Tatum in it! He was a awesome dancer. It showed how good of a connection nora and tyler had in the movie cause they are now married!!
Step Up
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Clichéd dance movie with some fun moves.
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for Ages 13–14
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Step Up was written by Jane Boursaw
Parents need to know that this movie contains references to gang violence, racial unrest, and tragedies resulting from a life of poverty. Social classes are prevalent (the "privileged" and the "poor"), and lies and betrayal are part of the storyline. Tyler comes from a low-income foster home, and his life is all about parties, thugs, and criminal behavior, including a run-in with a chop-shop owner. There's some profanity and sexual innuendo.
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- Families can talk about what Tyler could have done differently in his life, rather than resorting to crime. How could Tyler have found different friends? How do you avoid "going along with the crowd" when you know they're in the wrong? How do the adults in Tyler's life affect him? Could they have done anything differently to help him? Is the school administrator right in showing her disapproval when he wants to dance? And what about Nora's mother? Is she right to want Nora to focus on college applications, or should she nurture her daughter's love of dance?
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What’s the Story?
When Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) gets caught trashing a private performing arts school with some of his buddies, the judge sentences him to community service -- cleaning the school for several hours each day. That's where he meets Nora (Jenna Dewan), a Type-A dance student with a wannabe pop star boyfriend (Josh Henderson). Nora's working hard on the choreography for her "Senior Showcase," a dance number she hopes will land her a job with a dance company after graduation. But when her partner hurts his ankle and can't practice, she needs someone to fill his place. After auditioning a few guys who can't dance worth beans, Nora's ready to give up hope. In between mopping and cleaning, Tyler notices her frustration and says he'll do it. No matter that he doesn't know a pirouette from a glissade. She's seen his hip-hop moves and knows he can dance. Besides that, she's desperate.
Is It Any Good?
We've seen all this before in Dirty Dancing, Take the Lead, and a zillion other dance movies. Guy from the wrong side of the tracks connects with girl through the power of dancing. She needs him to break into the next phase of her dance life, and he needs her to lift him out of his pathetic life. And it all culminates in The Big Dance Number, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, the storyline is tired and cheesy, but what saves STEP UP from cliché-dom are the fun dance numbers that make YOU want to get up and dance. Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum have great chemistry (helped along by the fact that he looks just like Wentworth Miller on Prison Break). And the actors did all their own dance moves, which lends an authenticity to the movie and saves us from having to sit through body doubles and clunky cutaway scenes.
Movie Details
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures, Director: Anne Fletcher
Run time: 98 minutes
Theatrical release: 08/11/2006, DVD release: 12/19/2006
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, brief violence and innuendo
Run time: 98 minutes
Theatrical release: 08/11/2006, DVD release: 12/19/2006
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, brief violence and innuendo
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I rate this title on for age 12 and give it
Great dance movie
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I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
Tyler's brother doesnt get killed. Mac's brother gets killed. Skinny and Mac are brothers and they are Tyler's friends.
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I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
awesome
besides how tylers bro gets killed they should've included that yeah
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I rate this title on for age 9 and give it
Step Up 4ever!
This movie is amazing!anyone any age should go see it!
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I rate this title on for age 13 and give it
LOVE IT
This movie is really good. It makes you want to get up and dance.
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I rate this title pause for age 12 and give it
I LOVE THIS MOVIE
This is one of my favorites,I love this movie and I love channing tatum!! You'll like this movie if you like dancing & romance movies
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I rate this title pause for age 12 and give it
I LOVE THIS MOVIE
This is one of my favorites,I love this movie and I love channing tatum!! You'll like this movie if you like dancing & romance movies
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
Kinda cliche but still awesome.
I loved the dancing in this movie. The soundtrack is really good. Some of the acting was a little cheesy but it was an all around awesome movie.
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
a great dance movie
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
Entertaining
Great dancing and music, but it feels the same as every other dance film ever made. Good for kids 10+
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
ehmagawd!
i effing ahdore this movie, i watch it over & over & over in theaters. the ending dance is ah-mazing. i think it rocks, and channing tatum can dance! might i say, hes hot too. :] i loved it!
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
awesome movie for teenagers!!
this movie was great for kids over 13. i wouldnt recommend that smaller children watch it because of the rating and WHY it was rated PG-13.
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want to see it again
I loved the music and dancing in this film. It was about going for what you want. Great for teens. Language(don't remember any foul words)and sexual content(kissing) PG. Does have some stuff from bad side of town, but I've seen worse. Well done. Depending on the child...10 yr old could go.
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
GREAT!
Step up is one of my faveorite movies! It was great. Stop reading this review if you don't want to hear a spoilers. In the movie there are nasty gang members who shoot a child who was not given an age but appeared to be somewhere from 11-13. It is a little bit to real i think for anyone under 11. But my sister my mother and i whent to see it (my sister is 5) and she understood pretty well but some others might not understand as well.
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LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!
AWESOME! A must-see for any dancer!
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
i love channing tatum
this movie was amazing i have watched it like 1000 million billion times in theaters, and i love channing tatum he is soo sexxieee wow...like he has an awsome body....
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