| | | He Will Challenge Their Traditions. Their Traditions Will Change His Life.
Features: Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.40:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Spanish, Subtitled, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
DJ (Columbus Short), an amazing underground street dancer, hasn't been in college for a day before he's entranced by the lovely April (Meagan Good). Working as a gardener to pay the bills, DJ doesn't fit in with the wealthier students around campus, but one thing does catch his attention - the rival fraternity competition known as "stepping." With April's help, DJ learns about the legacy and heritage behind the fraternities and decides to join up. Now part of an official step group, DJ now must balance rehearsals, work, and school, while at the same time winning the heart of the girl of his dreams. With the National Step Championship drawing closer, DJ must learn to stop dancing as an individual, and to start stepping as part of a team.
"...a series of phenomenal dance sequences, all highly entertaining and expertly choreographed." Manny Lewis, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"A high-energy movie with heart and the dance moves will make your jaw drop!" Rachel Smith, FOX-TV
Editor's Note
What is the difference between a gang and a team? DJ Williams (Columbus Short) is forced to confront this question, along with the usual post-adolescent romantic and family conflicts, when his well-meaning uncle (Harry Lennix) enrolls him at his Atlanta alma mater, Truth University. His enrollment is part of a plea bargain that will save him from being imprisoned, and it is also a last resort to rescue him from the LA gang life that has already claimed his beloved brother. An avid and remarkably gifted hip-hop dancer, DJ is quickly solicited by two fraternities who want to make use of his skills on their respective step teams. DJ resists at first, equating fraternities and stepping as stultifying, upper-class activities. Eventually DJ warms to the underdog fraternity and, with his amazing krumping, clowning, and breaking, transforms the team. More importantly, the team transforms him, providing a creative outlet and a character-building support network that help cushion the blows life keeps dealing. While the drama incorporates many overly familiar themes and subplots, the main hook is the spectacular step dancing, shot in a dynamic, quick-cut style that emphasizes the muscularity, inventiveness, and stirring teamwork required. The final quotation from Dr. Martin Luther King drives home the film's message: "Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education."
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, PCM 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Mandarin, Korean, Thai | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture And Sound |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Stomp the Yard - DVD Review By: Franck Tabouring - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 5/17/2007 7:21 AM | | Stomp the Yard faces the dilemma of simply repeating what we've now seen far too many times in movies such as Save the Last Dance or Honey. It centers on a struggling loner who manages to overcome his dark past and finds the necessary courage to face his fears and achieve his goals. Generally there is nothing wrong with such a story, but if the initial concept is sloppily executed and the plot ends lacking any originality, there's not much left to capture our attention. ...read the full review |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 2/24/2009 |
| Running Time: 116 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 18955 | | UPC: 00043396189553 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.40:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Columbus Short | | Darrin Dewitt Henson | | Meagan Good | | Ne-Yo | | David Checel - Editor | | Gregory Ramon Anderson - Writer | | Jonathan A. Carlson - Production Designer | | Rob Hardy - Executive Producer | | Robert Adetuyi - Writer | | Sam Retzer - Original Music By | | Scott Kevan - Cinematographer | | Sylvain White - Director | | Tim Boland - Original Music By | | William Packer - Producer |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "[The film] benefits from the high-energy dance moves, which add a vital pulse..." 04/01/2007 p.38Empire
3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] strong performances and a discreetly inspiring message....The humor and talent of its cast keep the popcorn enjoyment high." 09/01/2007 p.149 FilmCritic.com 6 of 10
On the television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Columbus Short plays a brooding, brilliant young television writer taken under wing by elder statesman and comedian D.L. Hughley. It's not one of the show's most integral roles, but Short plays it for broke, giving the writer's restrained wit just the right glimmer of naivete and confusion to escape two-dimensional branding. For his first starring role in a feature film, Short plays a skilled krumper from L.A. in Sylvain White's Stomp the Yard...It goes so by the rules to the point that once can actually call the training/return to form montage that DJ delivers in an emptied swimming pool. If there is any sort of cultural relevance to be found in a movie like Stomp the Yard, it's that spectacles don't even matter anymore: We just need the possibility of a spectacle. - Chris Cabin
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