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After the death of his brother, DJ moves to study at Truth University. Here he falls in love with April, the girlfriend of Hanson - a member of the dance group Wolf. Wolf team won national award for 6 consecutive years. In the film, DJ joins Python team - opponent of Wolf to help this team win Wolf.
It's not a great movie, no, and maybe not even a particularly good one. But it's likable and unassuming, and the dancing is off the hook, or whatever the kids are saying these days.
Perhaps director Sylvain White hoped that this laughably melodramatic film might find its way into the pantheon of urban dance films. But seen against such films as Rize and You Got Served, it's a step in the wrong direction.
Hollywood has a few well-rutted stories it likes to tell over and over, and Stomp The Yard includes at least five of them.
January 12, 2007
New York Times
Stomp the Yard is a strange and at times strangely compelling mix of black fraternity recruitment video and inspirational tale about a hip-hop boy in a stepping world.
January 12, 2007
Guardian
An inspirational dance movie, which, like an inspirational sports movie, runs on predictable rails.