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To get the college dean's backing for Harvard, Jamilah has to teach girls at a white sorority to step dance.To get the college dean's backing for Harvard, Jamilah has to teach girls at a white sorority to step dance.To get the college dean's backing for Harvard, Jamilah has to teach girls at a white sorority to step dance.
Ashlee Brie Gillum
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- TriviaMegalyn Echikunwoke, who plays Jamilah, was playing a college student when during filming she was 35 years old.
- GoofsAll entries contain spoilers
- Quotes
Yvonne Bishop: Isn't this is a great surprise?
Jamilah: Like Pearl Harbor.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Flix Forum: Step Sisters (2019)
- SoundtracksLittle Bit of This
Written by Julio Alejandro Mejia, Matt Toth (as Matthew Toth), and Vince Staples
Performed by GTA (feat. Vince Staples)
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
Side artist "Little Bit of This" (as performed by GTA)
Performed by Vince Staples
Courtesy of Def Jam Recordings
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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The movie Step Sisters on Netflix is a masterpiece of terrible cinema.
The film tells the story of a black girl teaching a white sorority how to dance like black girls. It manages to mash together every bad trope from the 'Dance competition' movies from the early 2000's(think Bring It On) with cringingly terrible acting, a ridiculous plot, excellent dancing, and unintentionally hilarious quotability("YOU NEED TO MAKE THEIR ASS HAIR STAND UP!!!").
This is all served alongside a large helping of performative 'wokeness', uncomfortable, non-funny racial humor and unfocused social justice 'lessons'. ( For instance, a large part of the plot is about the impact of cultural appropriation of black traditions by white people, but then also features a dance number with a bunch of black women dressed as generic Asian women in silk robes and fans without blinking an eye.)
Please note I am making no comment on actual cultural appropriation, race, or social justice. The movie tries to make these issues a major plot point, and fails spectacularly. The only major lesson the movie ends up conveying is "Race, culture, and upbringing are unimportant as long as you are rich and pretty'
I HIGHLY recommend it, if only as a unintended parody of the current 'everything is offensive to the point where we cant tell what is actually offensive" climate, but also as a gem of cinematic garbage that at times approaches The Room in terms of terribleness and watchability
The film tells the story of a black girl teaching a white sorority how to dance like black girls. It manages to mash together every bad trope from the 'Dance competition' movies from the early 2000's(think Bring It On) with cringingly terrible acting, a ridiculous plot, excellent dancing, and unintentionally hilarious quotability("YOU NEED TO MAKE THEIR ASS HAIR STAND UP!!!").
This is all served alongside a large helping of performative 'wokeness', uncomfortable, non-funny racial humor and unfocused social justice 'lessons'. ( For instance, a large part of the plot is about the impact of cultural appropriation of black traditions by white people, but then also features a dance number with a bunch of black women dressed as generic Asian women in silk robes and fans without blinking an eye.)
Please note I am making no comment on actual cultural appropriation, race, or social justice. The movie tries to make these issues a major plot point, and fails spectacularly. The only major lesson the movie ends up conveying is "Race, culture, and upbringing are unimportant as long as you are rich and pretty'
I HIGHLY recommend it, if only as a unintended parody of the current 'everything is offensive to the point where we cant tell what is actually offensive" climate, but also as a gem of cinematic garbage that at times approaches The Room in terms of terribleness and watchability
- heavymetal-10057
- Jan 21, 2018
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- Ain't No Half Steppin'
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- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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