They don’t solely exist to make the movie “edgier” or to help other people realize their professional or personal desires. Not only is it where Jenna met Channing – nothing like watching actors fall in love in the movies when you just know they’re falling in love behind the scenes – but also, and more crucially, it’s where we met Channing.Īnother notable quality that hopefully one day will be so common as to no longer be notable: the cast is flush with black actors, all of whom play three-dimensional characters with independent goals, interests and lives outside their relationships with the two white leads.
So Step Up’s magnetism is meta: the movie is a meet-cute inside a meet-cute. He winds up owing 200 hours of community service to this fine institution but quickly ditches his assigned janitorial duties to fill in for whatever plot device of a person Nora was supposed to be dancing with before. It was on the set of Step Up that Jenna Dewan, who plays Nora – a dance student at a prestigious arts school who is conveniently in need of a new rehearsal partner for the senior showcase, which is the only way she can ever get a job or a future in dance – met her now real-life husband, Channing Tatum, whose Tyler is a ne’er-do-well foster kid who shows his disdain for the establishment through the usual means – backwards hat, baggy clothes, lousy posture – who breaks, enters, and trashes Nora’s school one night.
Perhaps you are thinking, not incorrectly, that the likelihood of this teen dance movie from 2006, the year that brought you Snakes on a Plane, being anything less than cringeworthy now is very low. Maybe you haven’t given Step Up much thought in the intervening decade, or maybe your memory of the original has been marred by the aggressively terrible five sequels.
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