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Marques Houston, Omarion Grandberry, Jarell Houston, DeMario Thornton, Dreux Pierre Frederic ... see more see more... , Jennifer Freeman , Kimberly "Lil' Kim" Jones , Michael "Bear" Taliferro , Alani "La La" Vasquez , Christopher Jones , Meagan Good , Steve Harvey , Jennifer Nicole , Malcolm David Kelley , Robert Hoffman , Kevin Federline , J-Boog , Lil' Fizz , Raz B

The teen dance boy bands B2K and IMx star in the teen dance musical You Got Served, directed by boy band manager Christopher B. Stokes. Best friends Elgin (Marques Houston of IMX) and David (Omarion o... read more read more...f B2K) lead a crew of street dancers (including B2K members Raz-B, Lil Fizz, and J-Boog). They must come up with the best moves in order to defeat the challenging town in the local dance contest called the Big Bounce. Group dynamics are tested when David tries to date Elgin's sister Liyah (Jennifer Freeman). Meagan Good plays Liyah's friend Beautifull. Standup comedian Steve Harvey plays dance battle organizer Mr. Rad. Hip-hop star Lil' Kim appears in a cameo and contributes to the soundtrack. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: Chris Stokes

Release Date: January 30, 2004

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  • fb729949618
    October 31, 2011
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    It was "cool". Other than the dancing, everything else was cheesy: acting, scenes, etc. Good to watch once, but nothing more.
  • April 2, 2011
    Today, I will review the critically acclaimed Academy Award winning musical, "You Got Served". I've seen quite a couple movies about dance crews. Many have great dancing but don't really have a plot. I give "You Got Served" kudos for actually having a story.

    Its about a dance ... read morecrew (OBVIOUSLY!) who is famous around the neighborhood. They called up by another dance crew to do a dance-off (OBVIOUSLY!) with the reward being fifty grand. After the dance-off, the crew finds out that most of their moves were taken. They get SERVED by the other crew and comepete in a professional dance-off where not only they win a lot of moola, but get casted in Lil' Kim's new music video.

    I forgot to mention the film's subplots. There is a romance subplot that revolves around Omarion and the cute Jennifer Freeman and a whole lazily developed gangster crime subplot. The crime subplot didn't work and the romance was "meh".

    "You Got Served" is like watching an episode of a BET series extended to movie length. I really like hip-hop and break dancing but this movie just didn't work. I find it so funny how the creators try to get us emotionally attatched to the characters. I know you readers are not gonna waste your time seeing this depending on your tastes but one character gets killed off-screen.

    The acting was okay not terrible. The acting looks like "YGS" was an amateur film for YouTube. By the way the characters act and go along, we know we're not going to remember them by the time the film ends. These aren't memorable characters. Break dancers just come and go.

    Predictability level: high and low. At some points we knew how it was gonna go down and some points we don't. Lastly, the dancing. Good but not great. Dance moves are so familiar and been-there-done-that.

    Better than many dance flicks but it still isn't anything special. I've seen many movies that are so better than this. We can say that the writer/director of the film just got SERVED by better directors!

    I'll just watch "America's Best Dance Crew" for the time being.

    From the creators of "You Got Served" comes "Voltron":
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OvfuLI2CBc&feature=related
  • February 1, 2011
    The dancing scenes are great. Everything else sucks.
  • July 23, 2010
    B-
  • August 2, 2009
    amazing dance sequences, just lacking one thing; substance
  • June 15, 2009
    AAAA KAKAKAKAKAK HAAA!!! oh man gimme a break u know i wish the golden corrals motto was "you get served" so they would speed it the hell up!
  • January 8, 2009
    yeah its good the dance is well choreographed. Lil Kim look like she should be in rehab though and step up to the street and honey are better dance films
  • October 15, 2008
    You got served as some amazing dancing scenes as well as a sweet soundtrack. If your into dancing and hip-hop then this movie is probably down your alley.

    The movie has fairly good morals with a fairly decent storyline as well. Granted they could have done more with it, but th... read moree dancing and music makes up for the lack of storyline in peices and overall the movie ties up with no lose ends which is more then a lot of movies can say.

    The negatives in this film and reason it does not earn 5-stars is the fact that the actors are not really that good. Once you get into the drift of the movie, you can eventually start pretending and forgetting how bad they are, but during the first 20-30 minutes it's really hard to ignore how unconvincing Omarion, Marques, and Jennifer Freeman are -- I could have done with some different actors, but nonetheless, if you ignore that it's a great movie.
  • July 24, 2007
    I'm not gonna' lie. Some of the dance sequences in this movie were rather impressive, but the movie as a whole wasn't. You almost care about Omarion... but then you just know better. In the end, it's still a cheesy dance movie.
  • January 3, 2007
    I got served a crappy movie, thats about it

Critic Reviews


Robert K. Elder
February 4, 2004
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune

Commits a variety of cinematic sins, none fatal individually but collectively enough to pull an audience under. Full Review

Matt Weitz
February 4, 2004
Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News

The movie dances when it should be developing, say, characters or story line. Full Review

Scott Brown
February 4, 2004
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly

The story is so bored with itself, it collapses -- but the diverse troupe of dance talents at least makes it an eclectic slide. Full Review

Ann Hornaday
January 30, 2004
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

A thinly written, hoarily cliched story that serves mostly as connective tissue between the movie's chief draw, its dazzling dance sequences.

Susan Walker
January 30, 2004
Susan Walker, Toronto Star

Choreographers Dave Scott and Shane Sparks deserve all the credit they can get. Full Review

Carla Meyer
January 30, 2004
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle

A street-dance film that's lively and silly and about as 'street' as a Britney Spears video. Full Review

Jay Boyar
January 30, 2004
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel

A textbook case of how not to make a film about dancing. Full Review

Jami Bernard
January 30, 2004
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News

On the checklist of things a movie should offer, like character development, dialogue with subtext and plausibility, You Got Served is more like You Got Screwed. Full Review

Kevin Thomas
January 30, 2004
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

Choreographers Dave Scott and Shane Sparks have deftly given the dancing sequences flow and form while preserving the all-important street spirit of the moves. Full Review

Tom Long
January 30, 2004
Tom Long, Detroit News

A somewhat incongruous mix of high drama and street dancing in which the street dancing is fabulous, and the high drama is low grade at best.

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