“You Got Served” (Screen Gems)
“You Got Served” is no “Moulin Rouge” but it is a musical that moves. Marques Houston and Omari Grandberry star in this story about two friends who head up a street dancing group. When they get desperate for money they enter an MTV sponsored dance contest. The group with the hottest moves takes home a big check.
Elgin (Houston) and David (Grandberry) are the best of friends. That is until Elgin starts seeing David’s sister Liyah (Jennifer Freeman). It is also around this time that David needs Elgin to work a job with him and Elgin is unavailable. A rift occurs and the two best friends are now enemies.
The friends of the friends are concerned over the falling out between the two, especially when a dance contest is announced which will require the two men to work together if their group is going to have a chance to win. As leaders of the dance group the two are winners; apart they are losers in dancing and in life.
The plot is a little too complicated for a film of this type, but the dance numbers are perfection. Street dancing is not like anything you have seen on film in the past. It is synchronized precision as well as being confrontational. There is an absurd flexibility of body movement that is required for the dance numbers, and it is staggering when they are performed correctly.
The movie is rated PG-13 for profanity and mild violence.
“You Got Served” is a movie that comes to life when the dancers take the floor. This is no “Saturday Night Fever” film for these kids are willing to dance every day of the week. They have the moves and the motions; whether whirling, spinning or balancing in the air.
Take your vitamins before you go see this fever hot film. If not you will get totally fatigued about half way through it.
I scored “You Got Served” an aced 5 out of 10.
