Step Up

The Step Up films are a series of loosely-related films that follow a hip hop dancer on the path to winning a dance competition of some sort.


 * Adorkable: Moose from the second film has shades of this.
 * All Girls Want Bad Boys: Nora Clark falls in love with Tyler. Well, Tyler isn't bad persay, but he is very Troubled but Cute.
 * Alternative Foreign Theme Song: Koda Kumi's "But" is used as the theme song in the Japanese version.
 * Call Back: Tyler in Step Up 2 is only there for a couple of scenes to remind us that he was in the first movie. Tyler's sister Camille is brought back as a main character for the third movie
 * Dance of Romance
 * Fan Service
 * Heel Face Turn: Mack after . He wasn't exactly bad but he decides to completely give up a life of crime.
 * Noodle Incident: How Camille and Moose actually met is never explained. Perhaps if Camille had been the star of the second movie...
 * Remember the New Guy?: Camille in 3D in treated as having been with MSA crew all along despite not being in the second movie.
 * Serious Business: Hip-hop street dancing in the 2nd and 3rd movies is regarded as such.
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Tyler gives one to Nora after
 * Third Is 3D
 * Those Two Guys: The Santiago Twins
 * Tomboy: Andie West
 * Troubled but Cute: Tyler Gage
 * Uptown Girl: Nora. With Tyler as her love interest from the wrong side of town.