Stomp The Yard 2: Homecoming

I could only make it through 22 minutes of this straight to DVD movie before cutting it off. How far this franchise has fallen from the original Stomp The Yard. The casting was pretty much uninspired. Collins Pennie is cast as the main character Chance Harris. Personally, I've never heard of Collins Pennie until now. I would have preferred if they had cast a lead that had a bit more star power and recognition. 

Collins Pennie

Veteran actor Keith David plays Chance's father Terry. Pooch Hall (from The Game) as Dane who I'm sure is too old to be playing a college student. The wonderful thing about black college movies is how actors in their late 20s and early 30s are cast as "so-called teenagers". I suppose they could have been held back a few years to account for their "maturity". Fortunately there are also some young baby-faced actors that actually look like teens added to the mix as well.

Pooch Hall

 

Other notable celebrities include rapper David Banner, Twitch (from So You Think You Can Dance) and I'm told that Columbus Short from the original Stomp The Yard (who also produced this movie) makes a cameo appearance at the end. 

The film takes place in Atlanta, GA. It's not that the movie was cheap or low-budget looking, it was just simply bad. The characters were boring and  unappealing. They were common stereotypical characters with little substance. You've seen them all before in other dance/competition and black college movies. There was nothing innovative or different to set them apart from anything that was done before. To delve even further into bad fiction, the name of the college where all the "stomping" takes place is called Truth University. Seriously, couldn't someone come up with a more believable name?

To be fair, the most redeeming thing about Stomp The Yard 2 is the entertaining dance routines, music and choreography. But when the music stops, so does the movie. It's a good thing it was released straight to DVD, because if I had gone to see it at the movie theater, I would have walked out.

Out 5 fingers I'm giving this film the fist, 0 fingers.