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Stomp The Yard (12A)
Mar 16 2007 By Graham Young, Birmingham Mail
WHEN Hollywood's latest dance movie is the usual tiresome mixture of testosterone, stereotypes and beat-the-bully cliches, all of the technical brio in the world can't make up for such a nerve-damaged script.
At the heart of Sylvain White's film is "step-ping", a rhythmic form of team dancing made popular by African-American colleges.
Little brother Duron (Chris Brown) tries to keep Los Angeles street dancer DJ (Columbus Short) on the level.
But after DJ bullies Duron into taking part in a dance contest, and humiliates a rival gang on their home turf, tensions explode and the younger bro is killed.
Arrested, DJ is sent to Atlanta to live with his aunt and predictably learns all about cooperation in another dance competition.
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