5 Reasons to Get Excited About Step Up Revolution

As we’ve discussed, the DS crew was lucky enough to get into a screening of Step Up Revolution last night (huge thank-you to Broadway Dance Center for the tickets!). And oh my gosh, you guys: It’s amazing. We laughed, we screamed, we almost peed our pants multiple times. Here are just five of the many reasons you should get your bums to the theater this Friday:

1. tWitch!
Mr. Boss is THE BOSS in this movie. Seriously, I think he was the highlight of the film for me. His dancing is fantastic, of course, but it’s more that every time he appears onscreen you want to giggle and pinch his adorable cheeks.

2. There are more famous faces everywhere.
Kathryn McCormick and Misha Gabriel and Mia Michaels (and tWitch, of course) have big old speaking parts, but you knew that already. What you might not have known is that you’ll also see Phillip Chbeeb, Madd Chadd, Brandon Bryant, Chris Scott, Billy Bell and many more of the dance world’s finest scattered throughout the film.

3. Peter Gallagher is typecast, in the best way possible.
Are you making a dance movie? Do you need a slightly sinister, but ultimately sympathetic, authority figure to say things like, “Dance may not be the career for you”? Bring in Mr. Gallagher, aka Jonathan from Center Stage, who plays Kathryn’s money-hungry, anti-dance dad in Step Up Revolution. (As usual, his eyebrows are mesmerizing.)

4. The acting is stellar.
Just kidding! But let’s be honest: You’re not going to this movie for the acting. It doesn’t matter that nobody in the cast is going to win an Oscar, because the dancing is just. that. good. Which leads us to…

5. THE DANCING.
It’s pretty spectacular. The “Mob” concept translates to big groups of fabulous dancers doing awesome things in unconventional locations—things which at various points involve trampolines, elaborate body paint, harnesses, hydraulic cars, glow-in-the-dark costumes, and dollar bills falling from the sky. YES.

Step Up Revolution
opens this Friday, the 27th!