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You Got Served Movie Rating:  Dance 10 - Brains 3
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David (Omari Grandberry) and El (Marques Houston) are childhood friends with dreams
of making it in the entertainment world. To do so, they engage in weekly street dance
"battles" where they regularly mop up the floor with the competition. When a rival
Orange County dance crew challenges and beats them in a financially draining competition, the local
favourites are thrown into dangerous turmoil. Call it Breakin' 2004, if you will.
The cast is appealing - featuring members of hip-hop groups IMX and B2K - and the dancing is mind-blowing (and would be more so if the camera would hold still for more than a second at a time during the battle sequences). |
Marques Houston. ©2004 Screen Gems.
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But the borderline-inept filmmaking (major plot conflicts simply
disappear; characters die for no reason) does its best to cripple the talented dancers.
The final score: Dance 10, Brains 3.
Gay Interest: Lots of shirtless basketball playing happens when the guys aren't dancing. And it is, for the most part, a male-dominated dance scene here, making the film's lack of any gay content ring false. Jackee Harry and Lil' Kim make cameo appearances. |
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