The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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."

STEP UP: REVOLUTION has its share of innumerable fans, and the choreography (by Jamal Sims, Christopher Scott, Chuck Maldonado and Travis Wall) is attractive enough and inventive throughout, but really, much ado about nothing. Ryan Guzman and Kathryn McCormick (from Season 6 of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE) are earnestly appealing leads/dancers, Peter Gallagher is on board to lend credence to the proceedings, and the gorgeous production design by Carlos Menéndez matches bountiful eye candy strewn through out this semi-musical, but the story can't stand much scrutiny, especially caricatures of big business, and the supporting cast either just dance their way into the film or meander and amble throughout the several stage-pieces, literally and figuratively.However, this kind of film serves as a stepping stone for the likes of the handsome Guzman and the stunning McCormick (both of them can act as well), and for a dancer like me, the whole film is a visual feast for the (terpsichorean) senses. Aaron Zigman's edgy music and Matt Friedman/Avi Youabian's film editing spice up Scott Speer's direction, more a compilation of dancing scenes than a great movie-with-dancing-in-it in the vein of DANCE WITH ME.

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.

This 4th in the series is a little better than the last 2 which had degenerated into repetitive Bollywood style dance sequence movies.There is an attractive setting in Miami. The story is okay - dancers vs developers. There are some novel dance sequences with interesting costumes in original settings eg museum, office, on cars etc.The cast is alright. Ryan Guzman is pleasantly charming. Kathryn Mccormick has a pretty face but her legs are a bit stocky for a dancer. Her voice is a little squeaky. Nice to see an older Peter Gallagher as her father.Watchable for what it is. What do you expect anyway?