Revolution

Step Up Revolution was my second 3D experience and unlike Hugo, it was an incredibly enjoyable one.  By no means won over by the technology yet at least in this instance it didn't completely ruin the experience for me.  Why I think it works in Step Up is because it by no means tries to consistently create a 3D environment and when it does it doesn't overdo it. There's a subtleness to the use of the 3D that actually made it work. Another reason why I probably enjoyed this experience more was because the actual film was also better.  Step Up Revolution is one of the best experiences I've had at the cinema this year.  It begins with the biggest, most outrageous number and works its way into an incredible subtle and meaningful last dance. Even its reactionary ending is so abrupt and 'perfect' that its clearly a Sirkian style ending that leaves everything polished off so nicely in such a short time that its satiric.   Trevor Link at Spectrum Culture has a wonderful review here:

For those mourning the death of the movie musical, the dance film might be our only hope for the resurrection of its ecstatic pleasures. Critics dismiss these films because of their unfamiliarity with, indifference to or disdain for dance in general, but also because, in focusing on what these films fail to do, they ensure their blindness to the genre’s actual successes ... Dance dramatizes the plight of the individual against organized oppression, a sight unmistakably reminiscent of the Occupy protests. This is dance at its most cinematic, using the tools of the medium to create unique meanings incapable of being expressed otherwise ...