One Direction: This Is Us!

Not exactly sure if you can call this a movie...more of a documentary, but it hit big in the cinemas, so I guess it counts right? haha! Now don't get me wrong, I am in no way a massive die hard 1D groupie, screaming at the very sight of them like a teenage girl, quite the opposite...in actual fact before watching this (having been forced to by my niece) I knew very little about these boys. I do like their albums though and may have listened to them on the way to work each day for a while (yep one of those guilty pleasure bahaha).

Opinions, criticisms and all negativity aside.....lesbihonest here....they are international superstars. Having number 1s in 37 countries....holding numerous sell out tours, even just the evidence of having this movie shows they have hit the BIG TIME. And all this from the beginnings of x-factor, a show that they didn't even win! 5 ordinary guys to 5 idolised popstars in the space of a few years....

So back to the movie....it follows their story, their background, their journey so far. Opening weekend it made $18 million in the U.S of A! - basically all the teenage girls of America!

There isn't really much I can say about the movie, it was probably a waste of my time watching it and I will never watch it again, but thats mainly because I'm not too bothered about how they became famous or about their individual backgrounds, all I need to know is they started on xfactor and now sell millions of albums which has made them hugely famous.

We did see clips at the end of the movie with some pranks being pulled off....which would have been better if they had used things like that as a premise for the film, instead of just somewhat fake and scripted tame versions of the 5 personalities.

Anyhow, if you are a teenage girl of course you will love it....if you are a parent having to take your daughter then unlucky haha. Other than that I don't see a reason why people would go see this....

Rating 3/10 (and it only gets that because I like their music :P)

CH

P.S. I must say though this music video to their latest single did make me laugh!

Step Up Revolution

So after those three slightly more serious movies, I thought I would post something a little more recent, upbeat and fun, a movie that captured my attention from the very start. Full of outstanding performance and choreography, this film is full of SWAG, if you love and appreciate dance, this is the one for you! 

Step up Revolution (2012) is the 4th and in my opinion best movie from the step up series. 

Starring Ryan Guzman, Cleopatra Coleman, Misha Gabriel Hamilton with a short return appearance of Adam Sevani who plays the infamous "Moose"(the all time favourite character featuring in each step up movie since #2).

So its generic in its storyline - guy meets girl, they dance together, something happens to push them apart, but as always it all works out in the end. The difference with this one however is that it is not a dance competition, nor battles between dance groups, it consists of "The Mob" dancing at first to get the attention of the world on youtube, but then as it progresses it becomes more a form of art, expression, protest and ultimately to send a message to the city of Miami and to the world. 

Its amazing how they created such art and imply so much meaning through the choreography and music. There's also a crazy talented guy who creates the words "The Mob" to mark each of their performances, each time out of a different material e.g. forks and spoons, or glass panels, videos - seriously creative stuff! 

Have to post the trailer, just to give you a bit of a taster, its only a couple minutes, worth a quick look:

Totally makes you wanna get up dance, awesome film, love it! 

Rating: 

4/10 for storyline (too similar to previous and very predictable)

9/10 for entertainment (choreography, music, visually mesmerising).

Expecting #5 to be 10/10 although it will be incredibly hard to top whats been done in the series so far!

Which has been your favourite from the step up series? 

CH