After DJ’s brother passes away he enrolls himself at Truth University. He then becomes head over heels in love with April who is a girlfriend of Wolf’s group member. DJ then decides to go in Python team, adversaries of the Wolf team
It's not a great movie, no, and maybe not even a particularly good one. But it's likable and unassuming, and the dancing is off the hook, or whatever the kids are saying these days.
Perhaps director Sylvain White hoped that this laughably melodramatic film might find its way into the pantheon of urban dance films. But seen against such films as Rize and You Got Served, it's a step in the wrong direction.
Hollywood has a few well-rutted stories it likes to tell over and over, and Stomp The Yard includes at least five of them.
New York Times
January 12, 2007
Stomp the Yard is a strange and at times strangely compelling mix of black fraternity recruitment video and inspirational tale about a hip-hop boy in a stepping world.
Guardian
March 16, 2007
An inspirational dance movie, which, like an inspirational sports movie, runs on predictable rails.
