Though the 2004 film was never that impressive, You Got Served deserves the credit for making its title a catchphrase for shaming others. It’s since become something of a pop culture joke, but the franchise lives on seven years later in You Got Served: Beat the World. Though the direction, camera work, and acting could use a bit of work, there’s no denying that You Got Served: Beat the World has succeeded in the one area its audience cares about: dancing. Adding a little twist of parkour to the routines, the film offers some visually stunning sequences whose only detractors are the director’s inability to afford the dancers enough distance to capture their moves in a comprehensible fashion and the laughably bad actors working off a third-rate script.
Mixing a poorly staged drama about a bad break-up and make-up along with lots of scenes of parkour, You Got Served: Beat the World focuses on a competition between three dance crews, and this time it’s global. Well, at least two thirds of the participants are global. Director/Writer Robert Adetuyi relies heavily on montages and weak dialogue to push the film through its first 75 minutes to the final competition. However, the dancing is top-notch even if it seems fascinated with parkour as if it was just discovered and more intent on flashiness than anything technically interesting.
Blu-ray Bonus Features
The making of featurette is nothing special, but the piece focusing on 3Run, the dance crew that worked out the choreography for the film, is worth watching if you’re the target audience. The featurette walks through a number of the moves that they designed and it’s just as good as the in-film moments.
"You Got Served: Beat the World" is on sale June 21, 2011 and is rated PG13. Dance. Written and directed by Robert Adetuyi. Starring Kristy Flores, Tyrone Brown, Mishael Morgan, Nikki Grant, Chase Armitage.
