A Year of Garbage Movies #73: You Got Served

On THE STREETS of Los Angeles (well, really just one street), B2K must defend their dancing title from Sum 41. Or something

So I kind of wish I’d seen this one before “Dance Flick”, since the latter is basically a direct spoof of this. It wouldn’t have made Dance Flick any more enjoyable, I just would have had more context for why people were peeing on each other in the opening scene.

“You Got Served” may be the most mainstream movie to wind up on this list, which raises the question of how this film ever became popular. Nobody in this movie can act, and by the 10 minute mark you pretty much know how things are going to play out.

So, about this dumb-ass movie:

1. A “suburban” dance crew calls out the protagonists by sending them a VHS tape challenging them to a $5000 dance-off. You can tell they are bad guys because he has frosted spikes and a goatee. Obviously, they have stolen their dance moves. “Bring it On” came out 4 years before this movie.
2. A cute kid shows up and wants to be part of the crew. We are reminded repeatedly that “he’s like a little brother to me” and that he should “stop hanging with his bad news friends”. When they make him the mascot, they basically give him a jersey that says “I will be shot before the end of the second act”
3. Who the hell is this 5 year old hanging out with that he gets shot during a drive-by. I don’t mean he is the target of a drive-by. He’s in the car with the shooters. I…