Step Up Revolution (2012)
Directed by Scott Speer
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.
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With a nod to “Dirty Dancing,” Sean meets Emily (Kathryn McCormick) at a bar on the beach that is off-limits for the hotel staff.
Shamelessly derivative throughout, Step Up Revolution throws in a sensual dance rehearsal in the water à la Dirty Dancing, and an opening sequence of souped-up race cars in Fast and Furious mode - only this time there are dancers break-dancing on top of the cars!
Meanwhile, the way Sean helps Emily train by waterside for her performance at the dance company, and later consummates his feelings for her as they dance together in front of her disapproving father, helping to melt his heart along the way, there are definite hints of 1987's "Dirty Dancing" in its foundation.
The four “Step Up” films couldn’t exist without “ You Got Served ,” “ Dirty Dancing, ” “ Footloose ” (the original and its remake), “ Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo ,” “ Flashdance ,” “ Saturday Night Fever ” and, yes, even “ West Side Story .”
The original film, a Dirty Dancing/Strictly Ballroom hybrid, boasted more romancin' than kickin’ dance moves, but it was at least good enough to get Step Up 2 The Streets into production.
There’s no getting around the fact that Claire is kind of a moron; the high-school English teacher defends studying literature because it helped J.K. Rowling become a billionaire and coos over the “first edition” of Homer’s “The Iliad” that her 19-year-old hardbody neighbor Noah ( Ryan Guzman , “Step Up Revolution”) brings her.
DID YOU KNOW: “The Boy Next Door” star Ryan Guzman was a professional fighter who studied martial arts before his screen debut in 2012’s “Step Up Revolution.”
At one point, before things go psychotically bad, studly Noah (Ryan Guzman, who you may recall, or not, from his roles in "Step Up Revolution" and "Step Up All In") gifts her with a "first edition" of "The Iliad," whatever that means.
Noah Sandborn (Ryan Guzman, “Step Up Revolution” and “Step Up All In”) moves in next door to help care for an elderly relative who looks for all the world like Johnny Knoxville in his “Bad Grandpa” makeup.