Before I begin, I would like to admit to a goof up I just made. I wanted to create a new post but instead, enrolled myself as my own follower!! I'm still feeling very stupid about it. Let's see how I can get myself off my own list....haven't figured it out yet :)
This is a review on Step Up 3. The second in line of sequels to the revolutionary tribute to dance - Step Up. 3 revolves around an amateur filmmaker, Luke, with an acute passion for dance who picks up street dancers, aspiring to give them the right platform for their talent and a home to live in. In the course of his quest, he meets a Moose, school kid with incredible dancing skills and a very pretty girl, Natalie, who keeps eluding him. Togetherthey aim to win the world jam championships. And if they don't, Luke loses his ancestral house to the mortgage. Bollywoodish wafer thin plot.
Part 3 is however an exemplary showcase of dancing and choreography. And with such amazing talent at display, one need hardly complain about missing stories! My favourite dance sequences are the one choreographed amidst fountains of water that spring up from a broken pipe underneath the dance floor and the dance on the pavements that Moose suddens breaks into with his best friend Camille. Words fall short.
The second half has some drama thrown in to stich those stunning works of choreography to a storyline which streams along all too conveniently.
Nevertheless, the movie pays fantastic obeisance to the form of art called dance.
A must see for dance lovers. And worth a watch for everyone else. Do see it in 3D.
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A tame attempt from Bollywood on similar lines was last year's Chance Pe Dance. I happened to watch this movie on a flight. The director plays it too safe and hands the movie a painfully weak staid storyline. No twists, no turns. Predictable is an understatement. I believe there's more element of suspense in the lives of us ordinary mortals.
The hero fails an audition, lands a movie role. Gets thrown out of an accommodation, starts living in his car. Loses the movie role, wins a girl. Takes part in a contest, wins, goes home and comes back to become a movie start. Pfft. Tepid.
Shahid Kapoor cannot be blamed. He is reasonably earnest but his forte remains severely untapped with hardly any sizeable chunk of dancing involved. It is as if the director suddenly had second thoughts, threw out the dance and instead, packed in all the regular ingredients - girl, villain, melodrama, kids, and some very lame one liners that seem like apologies for jokes.
Genelia is good. Frankly she is a tad better than Shahid, perfectly underplaying her role for the most part. The surprise element though is the resurfacing of Vikas Bhalla, who I thought went into extinction with the dinosaurs.
Slim dance. Fat chance.
WTF, you found Genelia to be good in CPD. she hardly had any role. less said abt the movi, the better. who's Vikas Bhalla? probably u r the only one who remembers starts like Bhalla :-D)
ReplyDeleteThe word should be 'likeable' instead of good. And I hope the actor is Vikas Bhalla :)
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