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August 2009
Steppin': The Movie(DVD Review) |
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by Kam Williams
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What do Mo’Nique, Anthony Anderson, Fresh Prince alumnus James Avery, rapper Sticky Fingaz, political pundit Dick Gregory, Faizon Love, Clifton Powell, Urkel show alums Darius McCrary and Reginald VelJohnson and Miguel Nunez, Jr. have in common? If you answered Steppin': The Movie, you’d be right. Directed by actor-turned-director Michael Taliferro, this straight-to-DVD production is just the latest in a long conga line of the genre of dance-driven productions mostly deservedly parodied by the Wayans Brothers in Dance Flick. Because these are presumably college coeds, it is extremely offensive that they are depicted as aspiring to little more than looking like common ghetto prostitutes. Sadly, their equally-pathetic male counterparts aren’t any better, disgusting misogynists employing jive pickup lines such as, “I never met a girl I couldn’t make come.”
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