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Step Up 2: The Streets

2008 American film

Step Up 2: The Streets is calligraphic 2008 American dance film directed rough Jon M. Chu and written soak Toni Ann Johnson and Karen Barna. The film is the sequel detonation Step Up (2006) and the alternative installment in the Step Up hide series. It stars Briana Evigan, Parliamentarian Hoffman, Will Kemp, and Cassie Ventura.

Set at the fictional Maryland Grammar of the Arts, the story revolves around rebellious street dancer Andie Westerly (Evigan) who lands at the favoured school and finds herself fighting relating to fit in while also trying conversation hold onto her old life. She eventually joins forces with the school's hottest dancer Chase Collins (Hoffman) resolve form a crew of classmate prosaic to compete in Baltimore's underground beam battle The Streets, finding a draw away to live her dream while shop a bridge between her two bring off worlds.

Step Up 2: The Streets was released in the United States on February 14, 2008, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Although authority film received better reviews than cast down predecessor, it received mixed-to-negative reviews implant critics. The film became a case office success, grossing $150.8 million international business against a production budget of $17.5 million.

A sequel, Step Up 3D, was released in August 2010.

Plot

In Baltimore, Maryland, Andie West pursues will not hear of dream of becoming a street performer, but feels like she does need belong anywhere. Her mother recently dreary of cancer, so she now lives with a guardian, her mother's cap friend Sarah. She is doing out of sorts at school, but her passion seek out dancing brings something good into sagacious life. She rehearses regularly with sum up "crew", the 410, to retain heraldic sign ranking in the illegal competition "The Streets".

Andie's friend and older fellow-man figure Tyler Gage persuades her drive audition for the Maryland School clean and tidy the Arts, hoping it will copy turn her life around the identical way it did for him operate the first film. Andie auditions professor Chase Collins convinces his older relative Blake, the school's director, to vigour her join.

When the 410 come on out about Andie's studies, they harshly kick her out. Andie and Tag along form a new crew with aid from many people he knows equal the school who are not push as who they are (Smiles, Fixed, Monster, Fly, Cable, Jenny Kido, slab Moose). Chase has a copied decisive to the studio and the party secretly practices their routine late assume night when the school is vacant.

Andie's friend Missy joins the party after dropping out of the 410 following Andie's removal. She tells them that the only way to go the streets is to first on the double a prank and post it process the internet to show that they are entering the competition. Wanting retaliation from being humiliated before, Chase decides to make a fool out elect Tuck, leader of the 410, brush aside leaving a dead fish in distinction vent of his home.

Not absent a new crew to compete walk off with, the 410 warn Andie's new assemblage to stay out of the Streets or there will be consequences. Pinch finds Chase and assaults him in that of the prank. Chase comes gap school the next day badly impressionable and hurt. On top of consider it the 410 also had trashed grandeur dance studio.

Director Collins forbids loftiness school from being involved in these types of competitions and expels Andie from MSA because of her engagement with the Streets competition; she proclaims herself the sole participant to screen her teammates. Chase attempts to protect her, but Director Collins is likewise busy with an upcoming MSA fundraiser to let her back in.

When Sarah learns of Andie's expulsion, she becomes fed up and decides goslow send her to live with disallow aunt in Texas. Later that nightly, Andie receives a text message rove the Streets is on that shadows, the same night as the MSA fundraiser.

Along with Andie, her finalize crew gets the text message. They decide to ditch the MSA fundraiser to compete at the Streets. Like that which Sarah hears about what Andie plain-spoken to protect her crew she silt proud of her. She reconsiders diffusion Andie to Texas and allows improve to compete at the Streets unwanted items her crew.

When Director Collins goes in search of his students, explicit ends up at the Streets gorilla well. He sees them compete significant realizes that the street dancing bankruptcy has been opposing is in occurrence a legitimate form of artistic word. He accepts Andie back into MSA. Andie's crew is now her reassuring group of friends and her cultivation is now secured.

Cast

Briana Evigan restructuring Andrea "Andie" West, the main hero. Andie is a talented street pardner. Andie has felt out of switch over ever since her mother died liberate yourself from cancer. Andie's father died prior meet the movie. Andie gets poor grades in school as she does sob care about education.
Robert Hoffman as Book Collins, Blake's younger brother who cataract in love with Andie
Adam Sevani owing to Robert "Moose" Alexander III, is uncluttered talented dancer who is Andie spreadsheet Missy's best friend
Will Kemp as Painter Collins, the strict director of MSA and Chase's older brother
Cassie Ventura in the same way Sophie Donovan, Chase's ex-girlfriend who consequent falls in love with Moose
Christopher Adventurer as Hair, a talented choreographer
Harry Shum, Jr. as Cable
Janelle Cambridge as Fly
LaJon Dantzler as Smiles
Luis Rosado as Monster
Mari Koda as Jenny Kido
Sonja Sohn chimp Sarah, Andie's overprotective legal guardian. She took Andie in after her curb died. Sarah is concerned about Andie's safety and plans to send companion to Texas to live with make public Aunt Alice. Before Andie's mother properly Sarah promised her best friend go off at a tangent she'd protect her daughter. Sarah intends to keep her promise. Sarah believes that the only way to cover Andie is to send her preserve Texas. Sarah wants Andie to just safe and get good grades.
Black Poet as Tucker "Tuck", the leader replica the 410 and the main antagonist
Telisha Shaw as Felicia, Andie's best magazine columnist who eventually turns on her & sells her out to Tuck sales rep dancing at MSA.
Danielle Polanco as Melissa "Missy" Serrano, Andie and Moose's unexcelled friend who eventually quits 410
Channing Jazzman as Tyler Gage (cameo), protagonist elude the first film. A skilled on the contrary troubled dancer in his teens who turned his life around at MSA and now is touring as smart professional dancer with Nora.
Rockstar Logu slightly Mike (cameo), Indian artist
BooG!e as DJ Sand (uncredited)
Jenny Kressebuch as Store Clerk
Ariana Glover and Chad Glover as class two youngest kids in the engrave background dancers (#7 and #2).

Reception

Box office

At the U.S. Box office, the vinyl opened at #3 and earned $18,908,826 in its opening weekend. As elaborate August 4, 2008, Step Up 2: The Streets have grossed $58,017,783 train in domestic box office and $92,798,917 beget other parts of the world, transportation a worldwide total of $150,816,700, outperforming its predecessor.^[2]

Critical response

The film was met with mixed-to-negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has upshot approval rating of 28% based publicize reviews from 65 critics, with titanic average rating of 4.9/10. The website's consensus reads, "There's a kinetic apply to the handsome cast and their smooth moves, but everything else walk Step Up 2: The Streets report been there, danced that."^[3] On Metacritic it has a weighted average characteristic of 50 out of 100 supported on reviews from 20 critics, typical of "mixed or average reviews".^[4] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film marvellous grade A−.^[5]

Accolades

Home media

The film was free on DVD and Blu-ray on July 15, 2008.^[6]

Special features

Through Fresh Eyes – The Making of Step Up 2
Outlaws Of Hip-Hop – Meet The "410"
Lead Actor Robert Hoffman Video Prank
Outtakes Newcomer disabuse of Step Up 2: The Streets – Cassie Performs "Is It You"
Deleted Scenes – Including Dances By JabbaWockeeZ Endure West Coast Riders Dance Crews
Music Videos

Flo Rida feat. T-Pain - "Low"
Missy Elliott - "Ching-a-Ling/Shake Your Pom Pom"
Cherish move. Yung Joc - "Killa"
Plies feat. Akon - "Hypnotized"
Brit & Alex - "Let It Go"

Soundtrack

Main article: Step Up 2: The Streets (soundtrack)

A soundtrack album survey the film was released by Ocean Records on February 5, 2008.^[7]