Stomp the Yard Proves Entertaining Despite Unoriginality

If you fused the movies “You Got Served” and “Drumline” together to make one movie, you would get “Stomp the Yard.”

“Stomp the Yard” displays every urban movie cliché known to man: a violent act; an angry male; angry male meets girl; girl is unavailable; angry male pursues her until she falls in love with him; angry male who has been reformed comes out on top.

If you have seen the previously two mentioned movies, throughout your viewing experience of “Stomp the Yard,” you will find yourself saying, “OK, that part is from ‘Drumline’ and that part is from ‘You Got Served.’ Maybe they should’ve named this movie ‘You Got Drumline.’”

Despite the fact that a halfway alert viewer can predict everything that will happen within the movie, this movie is quite entertaining. The choreography, which is nothing less than impeccable, sends chills up and down your spine. In the dance and stomping scenes your eyes become glued to the screen and disappointment fills you when they come to an end.

DJ (Columbus Short), leaves the mean streets of Los Angeles and moves to Atlanta to attend college, where on the first day of school he becomes smitten with April (Megan Goode), whose boyfriend Grant (Darrin Henson) is one of the head steppers of Mu Gamma X.

After displaying his dance moves at a local club, DJ gets recruited by rival fraternities, Mu Gamma Xi and Theta Nu Theta, ultimately deciding to join the latter, thus laying the framework for the rest of the movie.

Do not expect this movie to break new grounds or show you something original; accept it for what it is, an urban dance movie that will leave you feeling good.

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