You don't go and watch Street Dance 3D for the plot or any sort of sociological statement you go to watch Street Dance for the, well, the dance. Oh and to ogle the fit young male dancers (or is that just me?).
And after the disturbing and intense, but nonetheless brilliant, Killer Inside Me last week I needed some light relief. I was a Fame-teen you see and still hanker after anything that fits into that mold.
Street Dance ticked both the light relief and fame-fan boxes. It has a wholly predictable plot about a street dance crew who need somewhere to rehearse for a competition. Add a ballet school that needs to inject some life into it's dancers and a deal whereby the ballet students have to join the crew in return for free rehearsal space and cue dance style clashes, romance, will they won't they work together etc that leads up to the big dance competition.
It's a great toe-tapping non-brain cell worrying popcorn movie set around London - a city I love. Only grumbles are the unnecessary 3D and as a Londonite the lack of continuity in filming locations - but that is a very minor grumble and if you don't know London it won't make a blind bit of difference.
Others comments:
Catherine Shoard in The Guardian gave it three stars and thought the purpose of the 3D was to make London look cool.
Time Out London also gave it three stars calling it a 'sweet-natured, London-set dance movie that, if nothing else, proves that gainful employment is in the realms of the possible for the fly-by-night famesters of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.'
It got a very respectable 87% on Rotten Tomatoes UK
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