My answer is a completely different kind of music from StepUp2. Although I do like hiphop and r&b...

Favorite movie soundtracks - Juno (very smart and clever) and Good Will Hunting because of the awesomeness of Elliot Smith (may he rest in peace).

And you'll find this one funny - I actually liked the soundtrack from Moulin Rouge. LOL. I liked the play on Elton John's songs and the creatively composed medleys.

Oh, and of course Grease and The Sound of Music are classics.

aaah..too many!!! My i-tunes is kinda packed with soundtracks. I hadn't really noticed until now. Once, Stand By Me, any of the Disney films from the 90s (I probably know every word), Man of La Mancha, Trainspotting, Amores Perros, Oklahoma, Wayne's World, West Side Story, Party Monster, A Hard Day's Night, Godspell, Pretty in Pink, The Graduate, The Darjeeling Limited, and Amadeus. For the "Instrumentals": Gettysburg, The Last of the Mohicans, Glory, Dances with Wolves, Jurassic Park, The Sting, Lawrence of Arabia, Chariots of Fire, and The Mission.

Heaterisa - those are some good ones! Man of La Mancha particularly. Oh and Pretty in Pink! How could I forget that one.

Ok -- my favorite movie sound tracks are from concert films. U2 Rattle and Hum and Talking Heads Stop Making Sense.

UM.....SO HARD!! THERE ARE SO MANY I LIKE! D: OKEY OKEY I GOT IT... THE 8 MILE SOUNDTRACK...THAT WAS THE BOMB!!!!

I recently re-converted to URGH! A MUSIC WAR, a splendid concert film shot in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Shot in New York and London, the film captures various punk and new wave bands, usually given one song each (though the Police get more than one, opening the film beautifully with "Driven To Tears" and closing it with "So Lonely"). It's a nice democratic portrait of a fairly democratic scene - the thing was produced by Miles Copeland, so IRS label acts figure prominently (Police, Fleshtones, Steel Pulse, Wall of Voodoo), but a number of others sneak in there. The bands are placed with a DJs precision - each group gets to take focus for a few minutes (and there's a great roundup of stage personae, from the jittery work of Wall of Voodoo to the supercold Gary Numan to the sci-fi operatics of Klaus Nomi), but none overshadow the others. Was really glad to get a look at what may be the sole remaining 35mm print of the film a couple of years back - I place it over all other concert films.

The soundtrack, naturally, is fantastic.

Favorite film scores beyond URGH!, above:

RUMBLE FISH, Stewart Copeland THE FOUNTAIN, Clint Mansell, w/ Kronos Quartet and Mogwai VERTIGO, Bernard Herrmann (I'm less high on the actual film than other Hitchcock fans, but the score is sublime) AKIRA, Shoji Yamashiro ZIDANE: A TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PORTRAIT, Mogwai (them again) GODZILLA, Akira Ifukube (the Prayer for Peace and Light brings me to tears every time) THE BIG GUNDOWN, Ennio Morricone THE THING (1982), Ennio Morricone (pretending to be John Carpenter)

I am really guilty of enjoying Step Up2 . . . I thought the closing dance sequence in the rain was red hot. I agree with kelliec that the soundtrack was amazing and it was hard to sit still through the movie. I don't normally listen to r&b and hiphop but the choreographer picked the right music or the right music was given to her. I normally don't say this but who cares if the story and the acting was lame if the music and dancing was that good?

I think for a certain generation, dance + music = aspirational emotions. So, for that generation, I'm putting my vote for:

--Flashdance

--Fame

--Footloose

I'm not claiming to love all of them, any of them, or even at least one of them but there are die-hard fans out there of these soundtracks.

I will stake claim on the following movies' original soundtracks:

--Un homme et une femma / A Man and A Woman

--Les parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

--Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962)

If you want UN-original soundtrack music (and occasionally not allergic to classical music), then I would add:

--Muriel's Wedding

--9 1/2 Weeks

--Unbearable Lightness of Being

--Truly, Madly, Deeply

--L'Accompagnatrice / The Accompanist

Hmm maybe I should see StepUp2 if you guys say the soundtrack is THAT good. I saw Step Up 1 - by accident (I was flipping through channels and was drawn to the dancing).

Fame and Footloose are also good ones - great 80's songs. :)

@clogozm, I also loved the Juno soundtrack so much so that I went and saw Kimya Dawson when she performed at the Herbst Theater in SF. It was awesome. Also, they have 2 (count 'em 2!) tracks by Belle and Sebastian who send me into little girls giggle fits whenever I hear them.

@Heaterisa, I love The Darjeeling Limited too. Wes Anderson always has the best soundtracks to slo-mo running/walking.

Planet B-Boy also has some pretty phat tunes.

of course Visconti's Death in Venice , Death and the Maiden( Polanski), Amadeus, the italians are the only directors who really understands the music in their movies....

Mine is from the movie The Notebook... i know.. a lil sappy.. but still really good! .. and also from Remembering The Titans

Oh, here's a sappy soundtrack that I love - Serendipity. And Love Actually has some nice sappy songs too.

there is none in the world like high school musical

The movie Michael, with John Travolta as an angel, also The Rose, with Bette Midler, also Say Anything starring John Cusack,and the all time winner The Committments, a movie with a not real band from Wales I think , Sounds like The Doors, Jaman unfortunately does not have this flick