Well, it's safe to say, that at no point in this review will you see the word "good" describing this movie, unless you see the sentence "Good god, what a piece of crap", or "Good god, why?!", so let me spare you by declaring right off the front, this sucks... badly... like a hooker on her first day on the job, and I’m dumber after having seen it. What emerges is a film with the plot depth of "Breakin’", but this is so bad it makes "Breakin’" look like Tolstoy. There have been movies like this since as long as cinema has been around; a craze, and a movie trying to capitalize off of it. There was "Saturday Night Fever", "Breakin" and "Krush Groove", and every other exploitation movie as far as the eye can see and this is a few years too late.

This tries to capitalize off of break dancing and free styling, while attempting to create its own moneymaking properties and crazes, case in point, the phrase "You Got Served". What this film's main problem is that everything about it is artificial. The writer and director of the film is, shockingly, the manager of two bands, the long defunct "Immature" and the now defunct "B2K", two bands whom are, without surprise, featured in this film, so not only is it fake, but it feels like an hour and forty minute infomercial for two really crappy music bands whose fifteen minutes ended years ago. Not even the mindless marketing tools MTV could fuel a film that had nothing to go by except a lot of flash and dash and no brains. Look for a really awful walk on role from MTV VJ La La who over acts with the best of them. But it seems not even MTV could pave this god-awful piece of junk into history.

Now, as a person who genuinely grew up in the ghettos of the Bronx piss poor, and as a person who grew up around people who listened to nothing but hip hop, I know that no one has ever said "You Got Served" before... ever.. even after serving me dinner. And people hardly talk this bad, but boy what was the point of this movie? What was it trying to get across? Was it trying to tell a story? Market on hip hop dancing, or just on B2K's faded image. I'd go with choice number three because what conceivable reason could there be for making a movie like this and spending so much money on a piece of exploitative garbage such as this? There's nothing genuine about the film. 

It seems like casting agents just took a lot of the actors from the WB network and dropped them into the film and made it feel like it's trying to get across that these characters are really from the ghetto. One minute they're whining about how poor they are, then the next they're sporting cell phones and really expensive looking clothing yet none of them have a job, and of course our two main characters deal drugs because don't they all? Our two leads are B2K and Immature members Omarion and Marques Houston who play two very unlikable characters Elgien and David, the leaders of a dance "crew" who engage in dance competitions with other "crews" at a local club led by "Mr. Rad" played by Steve Harvey who is thankfully rarely seen here. Now Mr. Rad has local gatherings with children who watch these people dance non-stop, but no one ever gets busted, and Mr. Rad is seen as sort of a god, when really he’s just a creepy old man performing illegal gambling.

Now there’s two white boys who look like they hopped off a boy band wagon and challenges the two to a competition, but during a drug deal, Elgien is beaten badly and ends up losing his bosses money, now he has to get it back by competing if he can make it in time and heal fast enough. Now here's the chink in Christopher Stokes script, the characters are so completely obnoxious we can never sympathize for them, and the whole reason why Elgien is jumped (in a scene that is so badly done, I was in tears) is because he was dealing drugs.

What makes him more of an unlikable character is he deals drugs, then blames his sister, and his friends, and still throughout the entire movie no one blames him for dealing drugs in the first place, no one seems to mind he was dealing, not even his loving grandmother, and no one ever addresses the fact that if he wasn't dealing drugs he wouldn't have gotten beaten up in the first place, but no we're supposed to like these characters. The two characters are hardly ever focused on unless they’re dancing, and boy are there a lot of dance numbers, badly choreographed and really obnoxious ones that we’re forced to sit through one after the other. Oddly enough, no one here goes to school, no one has a job, and no one has parents that watch over these kids.

Characters here are introduced and taken away for the convenience of the plot line including Elgien’s grandmother who is the typical stereotype who we’re forced to watch lecture Elgien. She’s a really bad grandmother because her grandson gets beaten up for dealing drugs and doesn’t seem to acknowledge the fact, no cops are investigating him, and she lends him 1500 dollars without asking what it’s for, and he loses it, she doesn’t beat the hell out of him (I would have), and still no one asks why he was dealing drugs. Then there’s Lil’ Saint this really annoying little kid of the group who hangs around them and is just introduced to—SPOILER AHEAD—Die later on.

It’s so painfully obvious in the film as we are given hints here and there to his hanging out with a bad crowd and he wants to join their crew and then suddenly he dies all for the purposes of forcing badly acted drama. Watch the hilarious sequence where his friend discovers he died and begins smashing the hospital room. A lot of it is just filler to waste time between irritating dance numbers. Nah, this is nothing but a really bad attempt at advertising two has-beens who should remain in the background. There's nothing to this movie that makes it at least watchable, and it was a real chore putting in an hour and forty minutes for something so awful.

Nothing but an exploitative piece of garbage meant to promote music singers Omarion and Marques Houston, this is a really cheesy bad piece of junk with no brains, no wit, and no substance.
 

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