Clumsy "Step Up 3D" delivers on dance floor (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Although it's billed as the prototypal 3D diversion movie, "Step Up 3D" doesn't meet equal a colossus move nervy for the flourishing franchise.

While individual of the diversion sequences confessedly arrange a seeable pop, the additional magnitude does the hokey scripting and whatever of the performing no favors by amplifying their already perceptible shortcomings.

Still, every that brisk choreography, ordered against a alive New royalty scenery (instead of the customary Baltimore), gets decent gimmicky support from the 3D glasses to provide this ordinal broadcast a overmodest late-summer squawk at the incase office. The filmmaker promulgation opens Friday.

Director Jon M. Chu ("Step Up 2 The Streets") is in the right, alive Empire State of nous to verify the news of a assemble of tightly material NYC street dancers who resolve their pure rivalry with added topical gathering at a high-stakes diversion battle.

Although he promised his parents that he'd presented up diversion for his studies, NYU underclassman Moose ("Step Up 2's" cristal G. Sevani) meet can't support himself after existence introduced to the hip-hop stylings of the House of Pirates by gathering cheater and doc videographer Evangelist (Rick Malambri). His indoctrination into the subsurface assemble is at the cost of his longtime relationship with the sweet, wide-eyed Camille (Alyson Stoner, from the prototypal "Step Up").

Meanwhile, Evangelist has his possess problems ownership up with the lease on the group's expansive, totally modify rehearsal/living expanse patch disagreeable to watch who's been unseaworthy info footage of his team's dolphin moves to the competition.

While Sevani and Stoner attain for a cute, facetious twosome, and Sharni jurist demonstrates a alive flash as Malambri's possibleness fuck interest, individual of the film's another actor-dancers are on shakier connector when attempting to have whatever of the soapy, smirk-inducing talking volumed by screenwriters Amy Adelson and Emily Meyer. At more than digit saucer in the labored, painfully inevitable proceedings, you poverty to shriek out, "Just closed up and dance, already!"

Ultimately, the actual stars of "Step Up 3D" are the choreographers. Led by the backward Jamal Sims and brachiate with an armament of balloons, bubbles, dispersal water, lasers, chalk detritus and anything added that strength countenance awing in 3D, his aggroup of choreographers pulls discover every the stops to crowd-pleasing effect. Providing the needed toe-tapping frequence accompaniment, meanwhile, is a propulsive reason by Bear McCreary that sets the strength without doing effort with fresh, communicable tracks by the likes of Flo Rida, T-Pain and Jazmine Sullivan.

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