Street Dance 3D

When a street dance crew lose their star performer and their rehearsal space, their chances of winning the Street Dance Championships look slimmer than a ballerina’s waist. However, hope is at hand when local ballet teacher Helena (Charlotte Rampling) tells newly promoted crew leader Carly (Nichola Burley) that they can rehearse in her privileged dance school in exchange for livening up her ballet class. As you do! There’s no point in trying to take this seriously really and that’s before you even take into account the stereotypes on show. The rude French teacher. The stiff upped lipped head of school. The urban kidz. The tally-ho ballet dancers. Yep, they’re all present and correct. In addition, the comparisons and similarities blurted out by Rampling between the two types of dance are pretty flimsy, but it’s the portrayal of the ballet dancers as wimps compared to the street crew which is worst of all. Training to be a ballet dancer is as tough as it gets (even a certain Mr JCVD has said he never did any tougher training than what he endured in ballet). However, despite all this cheese and silliness it somehow works. Burley provides the requisite sass as the crew leader and the dance scenes are original and fun (though you may be distracted by Burley somehow looking about 10 years younger than she did in Donkey Punch). This is actually a step up on, err, Step Up, as the scenes in-between the dances are just about bearable, though that’s not to say that some aren’t full of wooden acting. Overall, the target audience should have some fun watching this, but it’s unlikely to convert any nonbelievers. As for the 3D? Abysmal.

The OC Film Sting Final Verdict
There’s no leeway with this kind of genre really. If you dislike you won’t be going in the first place, but if you’re a fan you’ll enjoy it enough to have a spring in your step when you leave the cinema. Rating: 6/10