Python Hyena Step Up 4: Revolution (2012): Dir: Scott Speer / Dir: Ryan Guzman, Kathryn McCormick, Misha Gabriel, Peter Gallagher, Cleopatra Coleman: Pointless waste of energy about aiming your talents and abilities to greater acclaim. The problem here is that a dance group that calls itself The Mob performs these acts within the midst of social functions. Now, spectators mostly marvel at the impressive visual energy presented, but they are still creating a public nuisance for which viewers are requested to applaud. These dance numbers are well done and are the best compliment to be given here, but the cast are assembled on the line of every stereotype within reach. We have the girl who desires to be a dancer but her father is a wealthy developer who threatens to tear down the area for which The Mob live. She will become involved with one of the dancers and will be torn between her father and her new found hobby. While the actors are pretty much stuck in familiarity, Peter Gallagher is the real victim receiving the bottom barrel shuffle to play this one dimensional role. Cleopatra Coleman plays a DJ who should not quit her day job if this pathetic excuse for entertainment is the best she can arrange for herself. Director Scott Speer brings energy to the dance numbers, which highlight any real creativity the film sustains. Otherwise this just becomes an exercise in horrific screen writing and a group of dancers who would be better off teaching dance classes as oppose to breathing life into a franchise that was dead a long time ago. In the end this lazy film should be stepped on, not stepped up. Score: 3 / 10

Bryan Kluger Before I start this review, let me preface this by saying I am a fan of musicals. Some of my favorite films are of the musical variety such as 'Little Shop of Horrors' and 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'. I am also an avid fan of dance and dancing on film. I grew up watching James Brown, Michael Jackson, and Fred Astaire, and even practiced their moves growing up while watching their movies and music videos. There was a certain quality to them that has not been lived up to in a long time.I've also noticed that tons of people actually enjoy watching random people or D-list celebrities dance and make fools of themselves on national television or Youtube. Maybe that is why these 'Step Up' films are so popular. But these films are terrible. Why can't we have films like 'Singing in the Rain' or 'West Side Story'? I'm not sure what the answer is, but these 'Step Up' films have got to go, or at least, be of a better embodiment of talent.'Step Up: Revolution' is the 4th installment of the franchise and I think wanted to be an actual remake of 'Dirty Dancing', since its story-lines are so similar. But I imagine Kenny Ortega took one look at the script and or offer, and laughed and lit the script on fire. At least that was what I would have done. Then Ortega just thought to remake 'Dirty Dancing' himself, which he currently is. Good for him.How much is this 4th installment like 'Dirty Dancing'? On a level, which is laughable and unimaginable. We follow Emily (Kathryn McCormick) who is a fire cracker of a young woman just wants her life to be about dancing, so she moves to Miami (probably because the Will Smith video told her to). Low and behold, she meets a hot and charming guy named Sean (Ryan Guzman), who works at the local resort and happens to lead a large group of dancers who perform as flash mobs. These flash mobs are famous for their insane and difficult dance choreography around the city. Sound a bit familiar?Well, as it turns out, Emily has a father (Peter Gallager) who is a successful land developer who is also in Miami to start construction of a new high end community full of resorts and high rises. This just happens to be the same location of Sean's neighborhood and the flash mob stomping grounds. Dumm Dumm Dummmmm!As soon as Emily and Sean do the vertical mambo, they fall in love and Emily is torn between Sean and her father's ambitions. Emily's father wants her to stay out of his business as he will with her dancing. Sean and his flash mob find out about this horrific news and take to the world wide web to get the word out and strengthen their profile and awareness. Just before the new development is set in motion, Sean and his minions, and of course Emily show up and perform and dance number to prove and show the corporate people just how amazing it is to dance in hopes of saving the neighborhood. Here is where you realize you have wasted a good chunk of your day.The acting is atrocious in this film. Patrick Swayze could have done a better job in his current state than any of the actors in this film, including Gallager. I would have actually preferred that. The only thing that this film has going for it is the somewhat intense and fun dance routines, but mostly it is all very cheesy and ridiculous. Hell, there is even a vehicle dance number. Yes, cars that actually dance.'Step Up: Revolution' is a fast paced and quick cutting film that goes nowhere and has nothing to offer besides flashy images and annoying characters and dialogue. With this 4th installment of the Step Up franchise, please avoid with all your energy, and focus that energy on a better dance film. "The horror. The horror."

Ellie-Mae Fuidge Exciting, fast paced and well choreographed, Step up 4: Miami heat is a must see film! The dances are all choreographed to go so well with the music and the actors are very skilled and talented dancers. This film is best suited for teenagers of any age, as well as adults. I think this film would also be good to see if you are an aspiring dancer or if you are working towards a qualification in dance as it can give you loads of inspiration.As well as lovely dance routines, the plot is a brilliant write up which will not bore you!In conclusion step up 4 is an eventful, well-thought out film that will be sure to make you sit and watch it until you reach the end!

kjenkins The dance sequences were amazing, even though the car tricks were often overdone an impractical for the real events portrayed and the artwork supposedly done on-site in minutes probably took forty hours and lots of light management and flowing supplies. The primary protagonist is a local dancer who co-leads a crew and whose neighborhood is being bought up for development, a development whose models indicate that it is going to include at least half a dozen office/residence towers that will be at least twenty stories tall and one short one, that is about fifteen stories. This would doubtless provide jobs to several thousand people in the construction but also several hundred operational jobs created, maybe a thousand on going jobs, as well as places for thousands more to work and live. But all of that has to be set aside for the sake of a few hundred homes, most out of condition for sale otherwise, in the barrio.But don't worry because in the end the one portrayed as the "evil profiteer" - the developer - learns his lesson, sees the error of his ways (trying to create a profit, build businesses, provide jobs) and cancels this step forward in the machine that provides for his legacy and his daughter's well-being and financial future. After all, what is profit, business and opportunities for the people in the hood, and cash offers on their properties compared to the chance to keep their dilapidated houses?Still, the dancing is well worth it, the arrival of the Step Up 2 and 3 players is a joy to behold and the scenery ain't bad.