#All the step up movies in order movie#
#All the step up movies in order archive#

Yep, Step Up definitely considered itself a gritty drama, but it still established the now-mandatory final dance competition/audition scene and, spoiler alert, Nora and Tyler absolutely kill it. Particularly in light of what the franchise has become, you may be shocked to know that the original Step Up contains a scene in which a child is murdered in a drive-by shooting. From there the plot unfolds in a pretty expected way, with both Tyler and Nora inspiring each other to dance in new and more sensual ways. But when the principal (a hilariously bored-looking Rachel Griffiths) agrees to let him do janitorial work to make amends, he meets the stiff, overachieving dancer Nora (Jenna Dewan, Tatum's future wife). Tatum played Tyler, a kid who'd grown up in the system and fell in with the wrong crew, leading him to vandalize a local arts high school. In a star-making turn for Channing Tatum (well, star-making to those who hadn't already seen his star-making turn in Amanda Bynes' finest hour She's the Man), the model turned actor used his legit dancing skills previously only seen in Florida strip clubs to dazzling effect. That's because Anne Fletcher's 2006 dance drama was more concerned with a wrong-side-of-the-tracks romance than exciting set-pieces.

#All the step up movies in order movie#

Like the Friday the 13 th franchise before it, the first movie in the Step Up franchise is the outlier of the series in that both films' signature features weren't actually present yet (which, in the case of Friday, was Jason Voorhees, and in the case of Step Up was ACTUAL FUN). Allow us to explain with this simple primer. We can now add to this list 'hunks doing body-rolls' because with Step Up All In, everybody's favorite dance-movie franchise has finally unlocked this rarified achievement: a FIFTH theatrically released film! But for those who weren't already familiar with this very important series it can be hard to keep straight how all five seemingly stand-alone movies actually relate to one another (they do!). Typically that franchise needs to have visceral thrills of which an audience will never tire, things like car chases ( The Fast and the Furious), exploding viscera ( Final Destination, Saw, Resident Evil, A Nightmare on Elm Street), laserbeams ( Star Trek), or small black women shouting into bullhorns ( Police Academy). In an industry where sequels are the rule it's still surprisingly rare for a film franchise to make it to number 5. So how do all five movies relate to one another? We're here to explain. With this weekend's release of Step Up All In, the long-running dance movie franchise achieves the rarified milestone of a FIFTH theatrically released installment.

#All the step up movies in order archive#

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