Rachele Brooke Smith, Kenny Wormald, Sarah Jayne Jensen, Ethan Stiefel, Peter Gallagher
A self-taught dancer from Detroit realizes that it takes more than natural talent to succeed in the real world when she is rejected from the most prestigious ballet academy in New York and takes one l... read more 
DVD Release Date: January 20, 2009
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April 26, 2009This ballet drama of the American Ballet Academy is getting much better than the original because it has high energy and traffic-stopping dance moves like the following sequel of Step Up - amazing!
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May 8, 2009chemistry was great. but i was laughing my head off because what happened in the end was the unlikeliest thing ever! an untrained dancer getting accepted into one of the most prestigious BALLET schools in the country? yeahh..okay.
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July 13, 2009This was an enjoyable sequel. Aside from bringing two characters back from the first movie and the connection with the ABA this could have been any other movie about a guy and girl and their struggles in the dance world. This focused a lot on other types of dancing and got away f... read more
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May 21, 2009This movie is about dance and not just Ballet... Granted center stage was a great movie but this movie seems to have so much more.
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February 22, 2009It was alright, didnt leave me blown away like most dance movies but it was okay. I am in love with Ethan though, he is amazong....
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February 16, 2009This is a run of the mill dance movie for the most part, except for three things: The lead actress has amazing legs and a normal body shape, not a dancer/ballerina type body; One of the supporting male actors is an actual male ballet star; and the choreographer has a small role a... read more
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February 10, 2009I LUV THIS MOVIE !!!! ITS SO COOL !!! I WISH I COULD DO THE THINGS THAT GIRL KATE DOES !!!! I WANT TO BUY IT !!!
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November 17, 2008I absolutely LOVED the first movie so I was so excited to find this on cable over the weekend. I had no idea a sequel was even in the works. Not sure why it took 8 years for filmmakers to follow up though. And although it doesn't surpass my feelings for the first I loved this o... read more
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November 10, 2008All self-taught dancer Kate Parker (Rachele Brooke Smith ) has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Academy of Ballet. She leaves her hometown of Detroit headed for New York but finds herself competing against dancers like prodigy Suzanne Von Stroh (Sarah Jayne Jensen)... read more
Critic Reviews
November 7, 2008
Jim Schembri, The Age (Australia)
October 31, 2008
Jason Di Rosso, MovieTime, ABC Radio National
You feel sorry for the real-life dancers on screen here... Full Review
October 31, 2008
Annette Basile, FILMINK (Australia)
Doesn't have a fraction of its predecessor's pizzazz. Full Review
October 28, 2008
Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile
It might be formulaic and predictable, but there's plenty of appeal in this energy-filled film about reaching for your dreams. Set in the world of dance, the story is as much about passion as it is ab... Full Review
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