Stomp the Yard (2007)

Overrated and overhyped

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

hyped garbage

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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

The acting is pretty good actually since most of the actors are singers and dancers, but the dancing and choreography are superb. The rest of the cast is sharp and gets you feeling just the emotions, the writer wanted you to. Columbus Short is blazing in this.He outshines the rest of the cast in every way. Don't be put off by low ratings of this film. If you like any type of dance, you will love this film. Very entertaining and fairly moving. I enjoyed the hell out of it and will definitely see the sequel. The cinematography is really excellent too. A bunch of special effects that you make the dancing scenes even more intense.

How predictable can a film be? How bad can acting be? How predictable can a plot be? This film answers these questions and more!Five minutes into this movie and I was ready to turn it off, but no, I decided to give it a chance. There were interesting bits here and there but overall it was just bad.I could go into detail as many of the other reviewers did, but why waste your time. This film had no redeeming qualities.Maybe it can be used as a film to demonstrate how not to make a good movie.This may be the worst film ever made. Well, maybe the second worst film, there was "2 Fast 2 Furious".

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.