Starring Sofia Boutella and Falk Hentschel. Rating unavailable.

The U.K.’s StreetDance 3D was such an unexpected home-turf hit in 2010 that its makers have done what anyone would: they’ve created the same film again. That means an underdog hip-hop crew pulls together to battle the reigning champs and almost gets sidelined over a romantic tiff. Okay, there are some cosmetic changes: all the players are different (save for George Sampson’s fresh-faced Eddie), the action moves to Paris, and this time the gang melds street dance with Latin moves instead of the first film’s ballet.

But the clash of forms isn’t quite so fun here—salsa hails from the streets, too, after all—and the acting and script are, as you might expect, way down the priority list from the dance. Madonna discovery Sofia Boutella, the stretchy-limbed Latin vixen here, is hot, hot, hot, but her love interest and crew leader, played by beefy Falk Hentschel, is not, not, not. He gives the perfect wooden delivery for clunker lines like: “If we want to pull this off, we need the best of the best.” Tom Conti also makes an incongruous appearance playing Boutella’s club-owner father with an accent that wavers oddly between Borat and Pepé Le Pew.

But in terms of dance, this film owns the floor. The first indication that StreetDance 2 has serious chops is the sight of Lilou—the French-Algerian ass-kicking two-time Red Bull BC One champ—in the crew. He and the multiethnic rainbow of other dancers push the form into a blur of physics-defying downrocks, light-speed footwork, and mind-blowing flips. The Latin-hip-hop fusion that we wait till the climax to see doesn’t quite live up to the hype, but the final battle—held in an open-air coliseum—is a 3-D rush.

Enough said. Now, does anyone know the address of the packed Paris Latin club that Conti runs in the film—the one set in an abandoned church with chandeliers, umbrella drinks, and sweaty salsa dancers mashing bodies in a boxing ring?

Watch the trailer for StreetDance 2.