Step Up 3D

You move over.

Hey, this is Luke. This is my film. Let me ask you a couple of questions.

Why do you dance?

Because it's like breathing, it's like walking to me.

I'm not pretending. When I dance I don't pretend.

I'm more myself when I dance than any other moment of the day.

I dance to become someone else.

There are so many things in this world that want to push down on you,

but when you dance you are free.

We started dancing at the age of seven in our house, in the living room.

Just dancing, dancing, copying Michael Jackson.

And I'm just like listening to the music in the grocery store,

just like dancing through the aisles and stuff like that,

and she's like, "Contain yourself, calm down."

And I'm like, "I can't stop, I have to do it, I have to do it."

After everybody went to sleep I would open the garage and just practise.

That's pretty much when I knew I loved it because I had never dedicated

so much time and effort into something like that.

It's not us just jumping around. Dance has vocabulary.

- Inglewood. - I'm from Argentina.

I'm from northern Uganda.

- Miami, Florida. - Koreatown, Los Angeles.

There's a lot of gangs and violence.

I couldn't be stuck there all my life.

My village was attacked.

My parents didn't even want me around any more.

She actually kicked me out of the house.

- I had to go. - Dance saved me.

Dance definitely saved me.

If it wasn't for dance, I don't know what we'd be doing right now.

I didn't have anything, I didn't have money.

I was living with $15 a week in New York City.

Dance brought us together too, all around the world. We're here.

Truth is everybody is a dancer inside.

We all have a heartbeat.

We all have a rhythm inside. Boom-boom, boom-boom.

- What's that one thing you say? - Yeah, what do you call us?

- (Luke) Born from a boombox? - Yes.

- Born from a boombox. - That's pretty good.

Born from a boombox.

It sounds stupid, but I do feel like that.

And if we listen hard enough,

we realise that maybe we're all plugged into the same song.

New York University freshmen, welcome to Washington Square Park.

It's the central hub of our urban campus, and to the right...

Mom? Dad? You guys can really go.

No! We're gonna take you and Camille out for dinner.

We promised her parents we'd feed her.

We're already paying for our meal plans. It's all good.

Yeah, we're fine, we really are, Mrs A.

- We should go. - All right. One last picture.

OK. One last picture.

Get together, you're best friends, you could drive a truck through you.

- We're close. - Get closer! Put your arm around her.

- OK. - Good boy.

All right. Ready? Say, "Mom is pretty."

- (Both) Mom is pretty. - Thank you.

Ready? And... Oop.

Oh. Look at this. Picture of a hat. I got a hat with hair.

If my father could see me now saying goodbye to my son, a future engineer...

I'm just so happy you're done with that dance business, I can't tell you.

Oh, but you have...

- OK, all right. You make me proud. - OK. This is it.

Could I get in your backpack? Come on.

- That's too tight. OK. All right. - Come on.

I'll make you proud if I could just go to orientation.

- No! You're my baby. - Everybody left already.

- All right. OK. - I'll call you when I get to the dorm.

- Wear deodorant, deodorant. Every day. - Come on.

- OK, honey? It's important. - Come on, honey.

- Cos you're a man now. - Honey, we got to beat the traffic.

All right.

- Wow! They really... - Are embarrassing.

- I was gonna say "love you". - Sorry.

Hey, Cam, check those out.

Those are the limited edition gunmetal Nike Dunks.

Uh-oh. I know that look. OK, Moose, seriously, next on the tour, Union Square.

I just wanna get a closer look. I'm gonna be right back. OK? Cover me.

I guess.

All right, let's go, who you got?

- I want 25 on Kid Darkness. - 25 on Darkness, let's go, let's go.

- Give my money. - Sorry, guy, I got you.

Oh, snap! Did you see that?

Yo, I want ten on the skinny kid.

Give me 20.

Give me that 20.

Yo, you see that?

Oh, whoo-hoo-hoo!

It's over, it's over, that's it!

Go home! Go home!

Come on, new kid, get in there!

Come on, let's see what you got.

I think we're done here.

He ain't got no flava.

- Yo, look at the kid! - He moves pretty good for a geek.

Buddy, that kid is real! Been holding out!

I didn't know that dude could dance like that.

Let's go, new kid, let's see what you got.

Hey, you give me five on that. Give me five on that.

Let's go, Darkness!

Oh!

Buddy, that kid is real!

Oh!

Who's gonna pay for my balloons? Hey, he's right here!

- Get this guy. - Stop! Police! Hold it right there!

Come on, man. They're after you. Go. Come on!

Come on, kid.

Come on, let's go.

All right, man, time-out. I can't.

We don't have time for that. Come on!

- Police! - Get out of the way!

What are you doing? What are you doing?

Jump first, fear later.

Whoa.

- Get out of the way! - (Luke) Come on, come on!

Excuse me!

Out of the way! Out of the way, folks.

Oh. Ah.

My ribcage. I feel like I just threw up in my mouth.

- It's burning. - (Car horns beeping)

Where are you going?

Yo.

How did you just do that back there?

I mean, you were like freaking flying, man. You're like a ninja.

- Luke. - No, it's like this. You gotta blow it up.

Ah, come on.

How's that?

All right.

I'm Robert Alexander the Third, by the way.

Just since you ask.

But you can just call me Moose.

- I haven't seen you around. - I'm just starting at NYU.

- I'm actually an engineering major. - But you're gonna be dancing too.

No, no, no, not any more.

I mean, dancing was cool in high school, but it's time for me to face the real world.

You really have no idea what you did back there, do you?

- You're B-FAB. - What's a B-FAB?

- Born from a boombox. - (Laughs)

Like, some people learn to dance, others are born to.

And you're in New York City, the dance center of the world.

Check this.

It's the biggest battle ever. There's never been this kind of prize money.

And those guys in the park, they're gearing up for this.

You're good enough. You should be in this.

This your car?

Oh, my God, that's so sick!

Get in.

What you saw in the park today is just the beginning.

This is it.

- What the heck is this place? - Come on.

Welcome to my house. The House of Pirates.

Nice place. It's a little small to live in.

My parents converted this place years ago.

We all live and train upstairs and run a club downstairs to make ends meet.

Kinda like a secret hideout. Right, this is it.

We call this the Vault.

Around here, dance is your identity.

We live together, work together, battle together.

But unlike other crews, we all have different styles.

I found all these guys out in the city. Crazy talent but no place to go.

We've become kind of a pseudo family here

where we can be ourselves and rules don't apply.

This place is off the chain.

Thing 1 and Thing 2 over there, that's the Santiago twins.

You, man, you... We saw you dancing at the park this morning. You were...

- Amazing! - You are from another planet.

- Your own planet! You're amazing, man. - I have a question...

No, no, no, guys. Come on. No questions. I gotta show him around.

Got it! Come on.

You're great!

- Luke. - Jacob!

What's up, brother?

- Meet Moose. - Pleased to meet you, Moose.

This guy right here, he's the captain of the ship.

More like the first mate. I heard you did some impressive work in the park today.

How does everybody know that?

News travels fast when you beat someone like Kid Darkness.

But, Luke, I need to borrow you for one second. We've got some things...

- Can we wait? I've got to show him around. - We'll take him.

Let us show him around.

- I don't know about that, guys. - Please!

- Please. What would Jesus do? - Come on.

- All right. Don't hurt him, all right? - Promise.

Moose, this is the Ticks. Good luck.

This came from the bank today.

We're six months late on our payments.

- We paid them last month. - What about the other five?

We're working on it. The club's not making the money it used to.

The bank doesn't want to hear that.

If they don't get the money they're going to put the Vault up for public auction.

Listen, don't I always have a plan?

This kid, Moose, he beat Kid Darkness today, and he did it with style.

With a little bit of training, he could be the spark that we need

to win the hundred grand from the World Jam and pay back what we owe.

Jacob, we're not gonna lose the Vault, all right? We won't let that happen.

You don't understand. Nobody ever smoked Kid Darkness and got it on tape.

Whoo!

- That was serious. - You're the man.

You think the Samurais are gonna let you go like that?

They'll find you and they'll batter you again.