REVIEW: 'Step Up: Revolution 3D' Doesn't Quite Step Things Up Much.

Gotye inspired flash mob dancing and going political were the gimmicks behind Step Up: Revolution, the fourth installment to the Step Up franchise, a movie which unlike its title didn't quite revolutionized like with its premise.

In this familiar territory, we crash land. The plot is stale enough to be entirely described as your generic "dancing boy meets dancing girl and they fall in love but some things will happen to them" story. Punishing enough, Step Up: Revolution is sadly bugged by a cliched dialogue and agonizing acting.

Insert the "girl", Emily (played by Kathryn McCormick), a pro-dancer hopeful who arrives in Miami who meets the "boy", Sean (Ryan Guzman), a feet that can dance too, leader of a school of dancers who credit themselves as "The Mob".

The two falls in love but shortly right after, Emily's non-supportive father Mr. Anderson (played by Peter Gallagher) finds out about his daughter hanging with "The Mob". He is immediately determined to wipe out the group who by then simmers to boil to the protest form of dancing...for their "one greater cause".

Like the other Step Up movies, Revolution is just at the right footsteps. Cutting edge flash mobs and slick foot works result to a sheer spectacle, but I'm told that a clumsy plot and a flat-footed execution won't result to a "good" movie.

Stifled by many cliches the movie franchise already had shares, Revolution lacks that "star power" the original Step Up had: Channing Tatum. Who, back then, landed on bigger films because both of his foot work and acting had potential. In this fourth film, the leads had the former but was dismissed much of the latter.

I've got to say that there's got to be an inside joke about the $100,000 YouTube video contest "The Mob" had entered. If the terms were simply to score your vid to a million hits, then YouTube bots might as well could have starred in this movie.

The movie expands with dances new to the franchise but not in the field of dancing itself but doesn't quite learn from the history of its predecessor. Your jagger moves don't make a movie stand still. It and great plot does.

GRADE: B-