Step Up Revolution (2012)

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.

Director:

Scott Speer

Writers:

Amanda Brody, Duane Adler (characters)

Stars:

Cleopatra Coleman, Misha Gabriel Hamilton, Ryan Guzman

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Cleopatra Coleman	...	Penelope
Misha Gabriel Hamilton	...	Eddy (as Misha Gabriel)
Ryan Guzman	...	Sean
Michael 'Xeno' Langebeck	...	Mercury
Stephen Boss	...	Jason (as Stephen 'tWitch' Boss)
Claudio Pinto	...	Francisco
Nicole Dabeau	...	Newscaster
Chris Charles	...	Lamborghini Driver
Katie Peterson	...	People by the Ocean
Alejandro Posada	...	People by the Ocean
Marc Macaulay	...	Uniformed Cop
Tommy Dewey	...	Trip
Kathryn McCormick	...	Emily
Mario Ernesto Sánchez	...	Ricky
Sabina V. Gomez	...	Ricky's Mother

Storyline

The Mob sets the dancing against the vibrant backdrop of Miami. Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations of becoming a professional dancer and soon falls in love with Sean, a young man who leads a dance crew in elaborate, cutting-edge flash mobs, called "The Mob". When a wealthy business man threatens to develop The Mob's historic neighborhood and displace thousands-of people, Emily must work together with Sean and The Mob to turn their performance art into protest art, and risk losing their dreams to fight for a greater cause.

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Plot Keywords:

dancer | flash mob | dance | dancing | father daughter relationship | 

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Taglines:

One step can change your world.

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Genres:

Drama | Music | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some suggestive dancing and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 July 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Step Up 4

Filming Locations:

Miami, Florida, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$33,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$11,731,708 (USA) (27 July 2012)

Gross:

$35,057,332 (USA) (28 September 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Offspring Entertainment, Summit Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Sound Mix:

Datasat Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Adam G. Sevani/Moose, Mari Koda/Kido, Chadd Smith/Vladd make a cameo and have their own dance scene on this film.

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Goofs

In the scene with Moose when the camera gets close his jackets hood is on but when the camera zooms out the hood is off.

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Quotes

Sean: And there's this Space-age technology called internet now.

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Connections

Follows Step Up 3D (2010)

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Soundtracks

"Feel Alive (Revolution Remix)"
By Stacy Ferguson (as Fergie) ft. Pitbull & 'DJ Poet'

User Reviews

Step into dynamic dancing and anemic story.

When I stepped into the theater to see Step Up Revolution, I expected cutting-edge dance. I got it and maybe better than I expected with robust routines blending 3-D performance and modern art to tell a story that moves from public display to public mission.

"The Mob" is a flash mob secretly doing percussive urban choreography at different times in Miami to publish the dance on YouTube and win $100K for the most hits. The opening sequence using vintage low-riders in a traffic jam is spectacular, a muscular routine using very physical dance and very physical automobiles for an enjoyable fusion of art and pop culture.

Look, this is not Flashdance or Dirty Dancing, and Emily (Kathryn McCormick) is not Jennifer Beals, nor is Sean (Ryan Guzman) Patrick Swayze (or Channing Tatum from the first installment), but they are attractive performers given simple dialogue but dynamic modern film dancing that uses creative camera angles and minimal CGI to tell a pleasant formulaic story. In other words, I was entertained by the dancing and found the screenplay clichéd.

Emily's dad, Mr. Anderson (Peter Gallagher, the only true actor in the lot), plans to build a giant complex right in the hood of the dancers, a place romanticized for the purposes of the story but in reality a poor wharf community. The Mob, along with Emily, fights to preserve the area using flash mob to tell their story to the city to stop the construction. The set pieces are uniformly exciting and executed with such energy as to evoke the passions of youth and protest.

The story and the dialogue are pedestrian, but that dancing is so magnetic that I might go back and see the first three films in the series and maybe Footloose and maybe even West Side story and Strictly Ballroom.

If for nothing else, Step Up Revolution keeps alive the romantic dance movie genre with some steps even Fred Astaire wouldn't recognize. Now that's revolution.