You Got Served explores the subculture of competition-style street dancing. The project revolves around Elgin (Marques Houston) and David (Omarion), best friends and partners in a dance crew, who aspire to open their own hip-hop studio. When another crew challenges them to a dance bout, "serving them" in effect, David and Elgin, along with their buddies (J-Boog, Raz B, Lil' Fizz ), must create and perfect dance moves that are going to win them enough plaudits to show their top dogs. The stakes are high; it's a case of honour as well as money to be won and as friends double-cross one another, additional motives get revealed.
The film isn't impressive as a story - you kind of know where its heading from the start - but the dancing is. Competing as teams, much as boxers might square up in a ring, it puts best moves to the test in some thrilling routines.
Accepting fairly average acting and a pretty basic plotline is pain free, given that's the dancing's hot - exhilarating is only the half of it. Starring the R&B act B2K, written and directed by Chris Stokes, who was behind House Party 4, You Got Served comes with sufficient pedigree to make it interesting, with Lil' Kim starring as herself in a cameo role and actor/comedian DJ Steve Harvey popping up as a local businessman, Mr Rad.
It's cool, providing you can put up with a crud story.
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