Honey 2 (US) - A Weak Sequeal with Yawn Factor

Honey 2
Synopsis:
The movie started with 17-year-old Maria Ramirez (Katerina Graham) inside a juvenile home due to her previous conviction with thief. After completing her sentence, she return to her hometown under the care of Honey Daniels' mum, Connie (Lonette McKee). Connie persuade Maria to become cleaner at Honey's Dance Rehab Center and soon she realize her passion for dance never diminished. Maria soon joins up with Brandon (Randy Wayne), one of the Rehab volunteer and leader of a dance class called HD. Maria also meet up with her ex-boyfriend Luis (Christopher 'War' Martinez), the charismatic leader of 718 dance crew champion , who previously lured Maria to steal, hence sentence to a juvenile center. In order to prove herself, she competes in a television dance competitor "Dance or Die" with HD group and teaches them new routine and choreograph. Soon, HD began to win in their preliminary and play-off until the final battle where they met 718, with HD winning though their unique and slick dance.
Review:
I wasn't really hoping much for another dance movie especially after seeing many horrendous dance flick in the past except Step Up 1, 2 and Honey (1) starring Jessica Alba. But since this is a follow-up to Honey (1), why not give it a chance and we might be able to find some buried treasure inside it. The first 5~10 minutes was promising with good music vibe and not too bad dance choreograph. However, as with many dance flick, the weak dialogue, repetitive & old storyline "poor then win" formula, weak acting, this movie has it all. In fact, the only revelation between this movie and its original is the fact that they use the same building that Honey has used in the previous movie and also her mum too. It does looks like the producer of this movie is just filming for the sake of having a sequel and milking the money from poor viewers. And as my previous dance flick review stated, normally the only thing watchable is the dancing and its soundtrack. Perhaps its just me but i do not fancy soft RnB to be background music of a dance routine as in this movie. A dance routine needs to have heavy RnB music in the likes of 50 Cents, Missy Elliot, Ludacris, and etc. to get the adrenaline pumping while rooting for the dance like Step Up 2. These are not found in this movie, so a minus point there. Now, the dance choreographer is also weak in this movie. There was no oomph factor during the final battle and i felt the final battle from 718 is the weakest of the lot with no imaginative dance move and the dressing was also horrible. HD final dance was quite okay but the costume design brought heavily from Step Up 3 and it was a bit like copycat to me.    
Verdict:
 I give this a poor 1 star out of 5. Weak dance routine again.