Batang Pinoy humataw sa ‘Step Up All In’ ng Hollywood

GLIAN

A PINOY kid dances with the stars of “Step Up All In”.

For a friend of a friend, we decided to watch “Step Up All In”, the fifth in the series of street dancing competition kung saan nagsimula si Channing Tatum in its original movie in 2006.

Dahil dito, nag back to back movie watching kami in between the 12 noon and dinner presscon and though we wanted to watch this first before “Hercules”, scheduling forced us to watch it first in its 2:10 p.m. screening with 3D sa cinema 3 of TriNoMa and then the “Step Up” at 4:55 p.m. screening at cinema 6, also at TriNoMa.

When we bought our tickets for the two movies, nakapili pa kami ng maayos na seat as before 2 p.m. pa lang ito so imagine our surprise pagpasok namin sa sinehan, almost full audience ito, mostly teens, young adults and groups and friends and definitely dancers.

Halos mahiya nga kami sa sarili namin dahil feeling namin kami ang oldest sa cinema so happy kami nang nakakita kami ng senior citizen pair, but with several pre teens with them.

Sean (Ryan Guzman) wants to succeed in his dancing dreams but with a last failed attempt with his original crew na nagsilayasan, Sean is forced to find another dancing crew to join a televised dancing competition that can give them popularity and sure fire three year job at Las Vegas.

Kaso, no way to win pala sila or even his original group who also joined the contest as they found out that rigged na pala ang competition as the head of the crew that is about to win is actually the lover of the host of the show.

Now, the boy’s friend gave up some information about his son but we are not expecting much dahil bukod sa wala itong IMDB full cast and crew, we know he will not a big acting or even a speaking role kaya we had to befriend the father to familiarize the boy’s look.

According to the father, his 12 years old son Glian is part of the movie as one of the dancing kids. Glian with no screen name yet was part of the children being taught with cha-cha but were happy enough to do street dancing too.

Presently, he is one of the principal talents in Grapeseed Educational Music Video series, produced in Sendai, Japan. He just finished a three-week shoot of the project last April, and will be traveling back to Japan this coming August for another three weeks of shooting, under the supervision of North American and Hollywood production staff.

Mabuti na lang, the movie is not boring at all so we were able to watch it full and see the kid. Glian doesn’t look Pinoy at all, more Latino looking with his not so light skin and kulot hair and he looks okay naman in dancing so he has a future. Since he’s just 12 lang, we wonder if he will visit the country in between school vacation and we get to learn more about the kid.

As to the movie, siguro this is not our movie na dahil although it’s not boring nga and we still laugh at its jokes, it’s the overall look that made us old.

Surprisingly, there are not so much new steps since the first one so parang we’ve seen this over and over again but then again we’re not complaining dahil all “Step Up” men lead, bukod sa mga guwapo, “lalaking” magsayaw at hindi baklain so advantage ito.

The production design is also sleek and so is the editing so again while we don’t expect much, marami kaming nagustuhan sa movie kahit paano.

We won’t be surprised again kung kikita ito sa bansa dahil paglabas namin, laksa-laksang teenage groups are waiting for the next screening na.