Prior to the 3D craze, Channing Tatum served as the series’ chief selling point and special effect; filling his shoes, with a similar combo of good looks and blank affect, is Rick Malambri as ...

Providing the barest connection to the original pics are “Step Up’s” Camille (Alyson Stoner) and “Step Up 2 the Streets'” Moose (Adam G. Sevani), recast here as insufferably inseparable ...

Musicals are allowed to have silly plots, but Step Up 3D makes Singin' in the Rain (1952) look like social realism. Moose (Adam G. Sevani) is a bushy-haired sprite who arrives in New York City to ...

Step Up has had a lot more money thrown at it, and the choreographers have integrated 3D into the dance routines with slightly more panache. But that is where the favourable comparison ends.

A reliable guilty pleasure takes a dramatic step backward but a technological step forward with “Step Up 3D.” Spinning off from Baltimore to New York, this vapid street-dance soap opera boasts ...

Also on hand is Moose, one of the breakout characters in Step Up 2 The Streets, now a freshman at NYU who’s promised his father he’s “done with that dance business.” But after Luke watches ...

Early on in “Step Up 3D,” the generically handsome Luke (Rick Malambri) spies young Moose (Adam G. Sevani) dancing in a park, lures him with compliments, takes him to a dark-lit lair where ...

Moose ( Adam G. Sevani from Step Up 2 The Streets) is one such soul. He’s new to NYU, set to study engineering, but called to dance by an impromptu battle. That insults the House of Samurai ...

Although it's billed as the first 3D dance movie, "Step Up 3D" doesn't exactly represent a giant leap forward for the successful franchise.

Granted, "Step Up 3D" has about as much substance as a Coke commercial - it also looks like one - but at least it's free of pretension. And nobody, thank goodness, is pouting.

ANYTHING StreetDance 3D can do, Step Up 3D can apparently do better. Jon Chu's glossy sequel goes for broke, incorporating intricate and witty choreography with special effects and outrageous ...