Remo has covered some ground since F.A.L.T.U. and Any Body Can Dance (Part 1). Any Body Can Dance 2 or ABCD 2, as is obvious from the title, is about dance, and mostly hip hop. While the first two movies had been dreadfully unbearable, ABCD 2 is slightly bearable. Slightly. Spoilers ahead. A group of youngsters who love dancing, while they have different jobs by the day, wish to make it big as dancers - from Nalasopara in Mumbai to greatness. The first performance is one that establishes them as cheaters, for their entire choreography is found by the judges as copied from a popular Philippino dance group. Rating: ** Cast: Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor, Prabhudeva, Lauren Gottlieb Director: Remo D'Souza

They are dissed by everyone, who had earlier backed them, and this trend repeats later in the movie when they excel at original performances. But that is later. To get to that point, the movie dwindles through sub-plots irrelevant to the storyline. One of them being Prabhudeva, the team's Guru's plan, projected to make you feel worried about our juvenile dancers. But wait. Before that, it takes a while for the very now-too-sprightly-now-too-sad dancer cast of this movie, including the lead pair Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor, to convince Prabhudeva aka Vishnu Sir to accept a position as their choreographer.

Varun aka Suru's expression remains pretty much the same between despair, sadness, disappointment and happy, kicked, encouraging speeches.

Some illogical parts -- where once disqualified from a competition and after being told to leave, the Mumbai Stunners (the cast dance group) manage to reach the stage somehow, where Prabhudeva evokes a second chance tirade. Logic is defied yet again when in the middle of the performance at this same event a dancer hits the water sprinkler and then there is a rain-effect all over the massive stage. The sprinkler over the top goes from one to two and position changes from centre of the stage to the sides. Artistic liberty?

Just as the movie goes into an interval Prabhudeva reveals an attempted plot twist -- that he planted himself to be found by Suru just so he can get to Las Vegas (where they head to for a competition). He reveals this to a member who is hearing and speech impaired. So, in effect, he reveals it to us, the audience. Why this happens is beyond me, because it unfolds into a very lame story later on.

Tisca Chopra, yes she is there too, is a talent entirely wasted.

Source: Urban Asian