Step Up 2 the Streets
Step Up 2 the Streets (aka Step Up 2: The Streets) is the 2008 sequel to Step Up from Touchstone Pictures. The movie was directed by Jon Chu, and choreographed by Jamal Sims, Hi-Hat (Bring It On) and Dave Scott (Stomp the Yard). Patrick Wachsberger and Erik Feig of Summit Entertainment produced with Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot of Offspring Entertainment and Anne Fletcher, the director of the original film.
Plot
Step Up 2 the Streets is set in Baltimore, Maryland. It follows Andie West (Briana Evigan) as she pursues her big dream of becoming a street dancer. Her mother died of cancer when Andie was 16; she now lives with her mother’s best friend, Sarah (her guardian), but in reality, Andie feels like she does not belong anywhere. Although she is doing badly at school, it is her passion for dancing that brings something good into her life. She rehearses regularly with her dance crew, the “410″ (pronounced four-one-oh), to keep the title of the illegal competition (although dancing isn’t illegal), ‘The Streets’. Sarah is tired of the crime and harassment by the 410 and tells Andie she will have to go to live with her aunt in Texas if she doesn’t turn her life around.
Box-Office reception
The film opened at #2 and earned $18,908,826 in its opening weekend. As of August 4, 2008 Step Up 2 the Streets have grossed $58,017,783 in domestic box office and $86,027,415 in other parts of the world, bringing a wordwide total of $144,045,198. Critics, though, have reviewed the movie to the point where it only received 24% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and on the website it says, “There’s a kinetic appeal to the handsome cast and their smooth moves, but everything else about Step Up 2 the Streets is been there, danced that.”
Trivia
- To prepare for the role of Chase Collins, Robert Hoffman actually went into the Baltimore city underground dance scene and participated in competitive break dance circles.
- During the final dance, in the part where all the guys are dancing, Smiles, one of the crew (two dancers away from Chase), is wearing a white jacket in one shot, and a black sleeveless shirt in the next. The continuity error repeats twice afterwards.
- Another male dancer (Cable) takes off his red jacket during the beginning of the final dance, but is seen wearing it in some shots, and not in others. There are also continuity errors with another male dancer (Hair) during the final dance; he is shown with a jacket on in some shots, and without it on in others.
- After Chase gets the black eye, he talks to Andie when she gets expelled. He does not have the black eye during that scene, but when he goes to talk to Blake, the bruise returns, although it appears to have healed a little.
- In the final scene when Sophie leans in and kisses Moose his cap is worn frontwards but at the end of the kiss his cap is seen to be worn backwards.
- After Andie’s phone is vibrating and she’s sleeping, Tuck is heard playing Killzone 2 a Playstation 3 exclusive video game which isn’t due for release until February 2009.
- After the subway prank, on the rooftop Missy was pulling the scarf she was wearing, and when Tuck got there she was having it on, and on the next shot she wasn’t wearing it.
- The dance scene in the club was filmed in the building of the Former Hammerjacks, now Bourbon Street in Baltimore.
Cast
- Briana Evigan as Andie West
- Robert Hoffman as Chase Collins
- Adam G. Sevani as Robert “Moose” Alexander III
- Will Kemp as Blake Collins
- Cassie Ventura as Sophie Donovan
- Danielle Polanco as Missy Serrano
- Sonja Sohn as Sarah
- Black Thomas as Tuck
- Telisha Shaw as Felicia
- Channing Tatum as Tyler Gage