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" You&amp;#039;ll probably be forgiven for not remembering 2003&amp;#039;s Honey, a low-key drama starring Jessica Alba as a fleet-footed music video choreographer. It arrived before Alba became a big star and prior to the 3D-ification of the dance genre. The success of StreetDance and the Step Up series has prompted Universal and director Bille Woodruff to revive Honey - albeit without Alba&amp;#039;s character and the clumsy addition of an extra dimension. Lonette McKee&amp;#039;s Connie Daniels is the only significant cast holdover for this sequel, which aims to give Vampire Diaries actress Katerina Graham the same career lift its predecessor lent Alba. Graham plays Maria Ramirez, a dancer who&amp;#039;s had multiple run-ins with the law and is handed a community service order for Honey&amp;#039;s dance centre after a stint in juvenile detention. Striving to break away from the bad influence of her ex Luis (Christopher Martinez), she falls in with a new dance crew that includes Brandon (Randy Wayne), Tina (Saychelle Gabriel) and Carla (Melissa Molinaro). Maria&amp;#039;s group, dubbed High Def, get into a heated rivalry with Luis&amp;#039;s 718 troupe, culminating in a reality TV face-off on Mario Lopez&amp;#039;s Dance Battle Zone. Honey 2 might be predictable and gleefully daft, but it&amp;#039;s inoffensive and often entertaining thanks to Woodruff&amp;#039;s energetic dance montages and a strong turn from Graham. The lack of grit or edge in Honey 2 is probably a deliberate ploy - this is a bubblegum depiction of the New York dance scene that&amp;#039;ll hit home with its target audience of pre-teen girls, although stretching to a broader range of cinemagoer might prove to be more of a challenge. It&amp;#039;s worth noting that an early (now removed) BBFC entry for Honey 2 showed a 12A version, yet the cinema release is a tweaked cut awarded a PG. Honey 2 works best when it&amp;#039;s raising the pulse for dance sequences and not indulging in rickety plotting and a cheesy romance between Maria and the slumming-it rich kid Brandon. The trash-talking crews help to keep the laugh-count high, although Lopez struggles with a couple of witless zingers as he&amp;#039;s compering the fictional reality show. &amp;quot;Somebody call the cops because these guys just broke some of the laws of physics&amp;quot; being a particular highlight. Woodruff&amp;#039;s music video background stands him in good stead with the multiple montages, but the inclusion of Gabrielle&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Dreams&amp;#039; suggests he had a momentary temporal slip to 1994 and the use of Los Angeles to double for New York robs the city of its personality somewhat. Ultimately, Honey 2 isn&amp;#039;t looking to break any new cinematic ground, it just wants to entertain. It does, and there&amp;#039;s no harm in that.  What do you think of the movie? Share your views "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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