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Two summers ago, Touchstone Pictures made a contribution to the class of Bad Movies That Somehow Click With Audiences in Step Up.

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This past February brought Step Up 2 The Streets, a hastily-produced follow-up unquestionably admissible to the league of Sequels For Whom Art Is a Non-Issue.

Without a direct return from any leading cast or crew member (Channing Tatum appears briefly), Step Up 2 is a sequel only in theme and design.

Which is to say that it applies the "tough kid gone legit" storyline to a new troubled youth in the hoods of Baltimore.

That youth is Andie West (Briana Evigan), a teenaged girl with an endless supply of low-cut tops that also bare every inch of what can be considered midriff.

Though not quite a full-blown delinquent, Andie has been missing school and running with a "crew" whose public disturbance antics -- like an extensive choreographed subway car dance -- make the local news and soar in Internet video views.

At home, Andie is misunderstood by