Center Stage: Turn It Up

The main character trains herself to be a professional ballerina. She is struggling to find her place on a main stage primarily due to her near poverty background in Detroit, and her inability to have afforded herself professional pre requisites, and training, and ultimately a dance resume and portfolio. She clearly has something, an edge, compared to even the most highly, classically trained dancers. She has to find work using her skills, and eventually meets a boy dancer who is very gifted and wants her to succeed. There are some problems with communication and turn down after turn down leaves the main character ready to quit. Wether she succeeds or not is up to her, and an additional challenge, a twist for the plot; the main character is determined to be a successful role model for her younger sister, proving that anything is possible with hard work and determination, but you have to believe in yourself.The acting in this type of movie is usually extremely difficult to cast. The cast in this movie was great. Even the romance scenes were acceptable. There was very little cheese in this movie which is suprising for it's genre. The other good highlight is that the ballet dancing is nice to see, it is impressive to me, a person not educated in dance. I at one point in the beginning thought this movie was going to be very boring and a repeat...it wasn't though, and what made me hold on and keep watching was the main character's charisma. The girl NEVER stopped smiling. And she was absolutley beautiful throughout the whole movie, and the character strength they gave her was inspiring. She has an absolutely, gorgeous, breathtaking smile with perfect white teeth, and she moves very very well. Her casting and performance caused me to give the fifth star. Her costar worked well with her too. I would watch this again. Enjoy!

It was good, but I enjoyed the first one better

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There really is not too much more to add,everyone has summed it quite well...This is a fun movie if your a fan of dance. Lets face it though,Rachele Brooke Smiths (played Kate), smile is what carried this movie all the way through to the end. Some of the dancing is really questionable,especially when Kate does the Hip-Hop scenes. Everyone makes it seem she was so great when the fact was the opposite. And could a UN-schooled Dancer who has only watched videos and learns to mimic the dance moves,really win the top lead in a major Ballet? Well if you can put these questions aside this really is still a fun and enjoyable movie to watch. And I wasn't really being critical of Rachele...her smile is worth the price of admission!

I can see whey there are those who disliked this film (they were obviously NOT expecting the wonderful change in flow). I'll admit...I read the reviews and thought (this is gonna suck)...BUT...once again I have learned to NOT listen to negative reviews and to just go in and enjoy the movie. Of which...I TOTALLY enjoyed! Definitely worth the watch and now I want to see the next in the series to see which direction they go in. Enjoy!

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I just can't wrap my head around all of these reviews that rave about the dancing in this movie. One of the things that made the first Center Stage so great was how authentic it was about the lives of dancers all the way down to the intro showing how dancers break in their pointe shoes. Anyone with the slightest bit of ballet knowledge or training will likely find themselves cringing through the dance sequences in this film - most especially those by the lead female. You would think someone in the production crew would have at least taught her to tie her pointe shoe ribbons properly. And that is just the start. Terrible turnout, sickled feed, arms held up by the shoulders, awful feet and on and on. I could almost forgive this if her hip hop were incredible, but sadly, it is just mediocre.Yes it's a cute movie, but much like the regurgitated storyline of so many other hip hop/street dancer meets ballet or vice versa. I am always glad when they make any type of movie about dance, as it helps keep the dance world afloat. However, it just maddens me when I think of all the incredibly talented dancers in studios around the country who could have filled these roles. Yet instead a non-dancer is cast who really isn't that great of an actress either.Overall, watch it on a rainy day, but if you have any dance background, prepare to try to ignore the complete lack of training and technique in the dance sequences.

Definitely worth watching.

J'adore ce film.

TUTTO BENE

Cet article mérite pour moi un 5 étoiles car il contient une réelle histoire certes répétitive, mais je le conseil à tous les amoureux de danse ainsi que les amateurs d'histoires romantiques.Le bémol : si vous devez le commander, assurez-vous que ce n'est pas via collissimo ^^

Perfect conditionWork very well

questo film insegna il valore della danza anche se in modo meno dettagliato della serie di step up ma detto ciò questo film rimane sempre e comunque un film bello ed istruttivo