kosmasp The beginning does not feel like a teenage drama/movie about dancing at all. It feels really mature. What follows might seem like a bit of a downfall from that, but it really shouldn't be watched like that. Try to enjoy what is coming next. Especially because for a movie about dancing the story is decent enough.And I should mention that Megan Good(e) is playing in this! If you don't know her, you missed out. While she only had a minor role in "Brick", she alone should be reason enough (for male viewers) to watch this. Right now (2013/14) she's doing a lot of TV if I'm not mistaken, which is almost a shame, but here she has bigger role, even if she has not that much to do (unfortunately! She should've been dancing too imho).

forrestwrs 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

Nick de la Fonteyne I'll just start out with saying that I've watched this movie in the same week as I watched Drumline, for the second time. This movie just didn't surprise me, it was just like watching Drumline, but just in another outfit, the storyline is almost the same, but the movie still amused me.The acting is this movie is decent, but the dancing was just great! And that's the only reason I finished watching the movie.If you want to watch a great movie, well this ain't it. If you want to see some great dancing, you should watch this movie!I gave this movie a 7 out of 10, because of the 'decent' acting and the great dance moves.

gracegibson The only reason I saw this movie is because I was at a sleepover birthday party, everyone else wanted to watch it, and I was in the minority. I expected it to be bad, and it was. First of all, whoever wrote the script has absolutely no talent. It's almost as if the screenwriter took every cliché he or she could think of and put them into a movie: it has a young man from the inner city trying to prove himself to rich people, it has a pivotal murder of a close family member (in the inner city, of course), a Romeo-and-Juliet-type romance between the inner city guy and a (gasp!) rich girl...all of these have been in numerous movies, and I'm sick of seeing them again and again. Also, not surprisingly, I COULD SEE ALMOST EVERY MOMENT OF THE MOVIE COMING. I think it's safe to say that there are few movies out there more predictable than this one. The dialogue was also yet another clichéd aspect of the movie. I mean, seriously, how many times have we heard words to the effect of "We're a team!" "I have to live my own life, Daddy!"? Lots, I'm sure. And lastly, the movie resorts to cheap tricks, like putting the main character's love interest in lots of unnecessarily revealing clothing, hoping to distract you from the fact that everything else is fairly uninteresting.What stops me from giving this movie a 1 is the cinematography and the dancing, the only likable parts of the movie, as far as I'm concerned. But trust me, there are much, much better dance movies out there.