Stomp the Yard (2007)

Too much of everything

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Yes, the story is predictable. But it's a drama. Acting is good, choreography is GREAT and it deserves much more than 5 stars. It's prob at least a 7/10 seeing as some movies WAY less entertaining get 2 more stars. I don't even normally like movies that target the audience this one does, but it is well done.

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

When I think of these movies like How She Move or You Got Served, I always thought they would be ignorant and just celebrating the "gangsta" rap life style and would be a waste of good film. But for some reason I decided to just go ahead and see what these films were like, I had nothing better to do, I was expecting bad, but guess what?! I actually liked it! I couldn't believe it, I mean, I really did like Stomp the Yard. There's really not anything wrong with the film, while it is predictable, it's definitely better than most films. I'm actually disgusted with a lot of the users who rated this movie a one just because of it's theme, I just stayed away because I thought I wouldn't like the film, but I wouldn't rate it before I saw it. But honestly I'm glad I decided to give it a chance, it has decent enough actors and an inspiring story to follow.DJ and his brother, along with a few friends, they are in an underground street dance group, one night it goes bad though. After DJ and his brother win, their group gets jumped and DJ's brother is shot and killed. DJ goes to Atlanta to go to school, he meets April, a beautiful young woman and wants to do better for her, his family, for his brother, and for himself. He joins a fraternity that is into dancing, together they bring themselves into the championship. But another fraternity wants DJ out and will do anything to bring him down.Now when I watched this film I had very low expectations, like I said before, it's a film that just naturally seems like it's going to be bad. But it's actually a decent film and I'm just disappointed with the rating here on IMDb. The film has good acting, a decent story, and incredible dance moves. The actor Columbus Short who played DJ was great, he didn't over play the role and didn't under do it either. I would recommend Stomp the Yard, I ended up really liking it, just give it a chance, when you look at it, you realize it's a good film.6/10

Don't know what those guys were smoking when they rated this movie with a 1. I would have given it a 9 but because of those numbskull's I gave it a 10. I would love to get the soundtrack and looking forward to getting it on DVD. Great movie with awesome dancing. I don't see what was so bad about it, there was good acting, good dancing, good directing, decent script. This movie deserves a lot of credit for its genre, and my favorite part of the movie, which was the soundtrack, especially walk it out, and that scene with the song, so please see this movie and don't trust bad advertising at stupid people rating when they don't know sh*t about what there rating.