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Movie Review: You Got Served

Jan 30, 2004 - Lynn Barker

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In the classic musical West Side Story, you have two New York gangs meeting for a "rumble" that is choreographed like a dance. Flash forward to 2004 and producers figured "why not just let the dance be the battle?" and nobody gets hurt. Street dance battles had their roots in break dancing and have grown into full-fledged competitions with "crews" who meet on the streets or in underground clubs to literally out-dance each other. Sounds way safer and more fun than busting a cap to me.

In You Got Served, two Los Angeles-based best friends Elgin and David (played by real life bros Marques Houston of IMX and Omari Grandberry of B2K) want to raise some money to help family and start their own hip hop club or...something. When not working for mobster Emerald (Michael "Bear" Taliferro) and trying to quit, they shoot hoops and bust dance moves with their crew of street dancers hoping to win big money in a dance-off.

The guys are challenged by an obnoxious rival Orange County white boy crew. Each group will pony up $5,000... winner take all. There is a problem raising the $5,000 but, eventually the two crews face off in an underground warehouse club where benevolent d.j./host Mr. Rad (Steve Harvey) tells the crews to play nice or be ejected. When one of Elgin and David's best dancers defects to the other crew over money problems and then teaches some of his crews best moves to the Orange County jerks, the bad boys win and announce to Elgin's crew.."you got served".

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