Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Great Film overall

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The beginning does not feel like a teenage drama/movie about dancing at all. It feels really mature. What follows might seem like a bit of a downfall from that, but it really shouldn't be watched like that. Try to enjoy what is coming next. Especially because for a movie about dancing the story is decent enough.And I should mention that Megan Good(e) is playing in this! If you don't know her, you missed out. While she only had a minor role in "Brick", she alone should be reason enough (for male viewers) to watch this. Right now (2013/14) she's doing a lot of TV if I'm not mistaken, which is almost a shame, but here she has bigger role, even if she has not that much to do (unfortunately! She should've been dancing too imho).

When I first watched this movie, I honestly hated it. The storyline was, naturally, predictable and the acting was just alright. But I ended up watching the movie again and it grew on me. I love all the dancing and stepping, and I've learned to deal with the plot. It's really just the dancing that made this one of my now favorite movies. So Stomp the Yard doesn't have the best storyline. The good parts about this movie are the dancing, music, and might I add, all of Columbus Short and Brian White's fineness throughout, haha. If you love dancing movies as I do, then you should give this movie a chance. Don't let the poor rating fool you; for what it is, it really is a decent movie.

There is one huge problem with Stomp the Yard that starts with the premise: this is a drama with dancing. It is very, very rare to find a movie that can successfully incorporate dancing with drama. In fact, I know of only one film that did this successfully--West Side Story, which is not a film about dancing. I'm not saying dancing can't be dramatic. I'm saying dancing can't be the solution to some of the problems our protagonist has in this film. In the first ten minutes of the film, the audience is subjected to some horrendous melodrama involving the protagonist's brother being shot for winning a dancing competition.Yeah, bottom line, this movie is stupid. There's a lot of melodrama that really doesn't go anywhere and some dialogue that was just plain awful. The biggest problem with this movie is that it feels like it *has* to manufacture melodrama in order for the film to work. I have a theory about drama: drama should not be a tool used by a director to tell a story. The drama should also not be the story. Drama should just happen. For instance, there are a lot of reasons why a young man might move away from his mother to live with his aunt. For the filmmakers to say "Let's just shoot his brother," is a little low. It just puts a lot of unnecessary fabricated emotion into a plot that does not revolve around people being shot. Why did the filmmakers have to kill his brother? Why couldn't there have been inner drama for the lead character to deal with? Instead, they took the cowardly and easy way out. It's a pointless way to move a story along. And we're only ten minutes into the movie.The rest of the movie is a lot like that. People hate DJ for "having a record," and DJ does very little to establish himself as a likable character.Clichéd and overly melodramatic, this is not a film I would recommend. The dance numbers are relatively cool, but they're not worth sitting through the rest of the picture for.1/10

This was by far one of the worst films I've ever seen. It didn't do anything to explain or detail the history of stepping on HBCU's nor did it give and accurate display of stepping. If you wanted to do another dance movie then by all means do one but don't take a tradition like stepping and try to make it commercial and sell it to the masses. You are just not displaying an accurate picture of what it's all about. If you want to see another dance movie like You Got Served then go watch this. If you want to learn about stepping and what it's all about go to your nearest HBCU and catch a step show. They have all the major fraternities on display.