Battle of the Year

2013 "The World is watching"
5| 1h50m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 21 September 2013 Released
Producted By: Screen Gems
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A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.

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Drama, Music

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Benson Lee

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FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.
xryanrx I just watched this movie on TV....wow, was it terrible. With the recent popularity of shows like ABDC and break out star groups like the Jabawakeez you would think the people that made this film could produce something decent to good. This film is chalk full of absolutely terrible acting, extremely bad music and bad dance scenes. They use the same scene over and over in the dance sequences which makes the movie look very cheap. It's extremely cheesy, and obviously caters to young teenagerS which is lame. What's up with the guys pointing over and over in the final dance scene? What are they pointing at?? Extremely annoying and very cheesy. This is by far one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Absolute garbage. Stay away from this one.
chubbydave Like a lot of people, I went to see this because of Josh Holloway.Basically it's about a group of American tough guys all wanting to be the alpha male. There is so much machismo in this. It's so painful to watch. And the ending is so predictable. You guessed it. The American tough guy alpha males who at the beginning were all independent cowboy types all through the guidance of their coach (Holloway) came together as a team and learned to appreciate teamwork and true friendship.Josh Holloway isn't even very good. He plays a drunk has-been who nobody thinks is any good, but when confronted with the challenge he gives up then he fails then he lifts himself up and makes a gallant effort. There are so many clichés in this movie that a MacBook air doesn't have the computing power to count them all.Whatever you do, don't waste your time.
tags_skeewee I'm not sure why I gave this a 3 star, I guess it's pity. *spoilers*The people who rated this a 10 must be the paid sponsors or they are smoking something because you would have to be high to have found anything good about this movie. First off the music absolutely sucked, there were no fresh hot hip hop songs, the final battle had some weird, like someone else said, elevator music. In other dance movies, I would want to get up and dance because of the great music, I would try to find the music list so I could buy the songs for my own play list...but not in this movie. Second, way too much camera shots were of other things except dance! It's supposed to be a dance movie, I don't want to see announcers 'talking' about the dance routines, SHOW THEM! Third, the acting was horrendous, I wanted Chris Brown to break a leg or neck and get off the screen after only a few minutes of his character being introduced. There is so much more issues but I will stop here. If you are looking for a good dance movie, skip this one. If you want to waste hours from your life, then rent this boring and poor excuse for a dance movie.
hthbrr2 SPOILERS!To be honest the only reason I watched this movie was for the delightful Josh Peck. He is such a great actor. Great comedic timing but he can also do drama as shown in "The Wackness". But I was VERY disappointed when I saw that abusive Chris Brown pop up!Wow I could feel the fear in the female actress that was hired to work with these guys. Chris Brown's character kept making advances and so on. Disgusting. Stop rewarding his bad behaviour! He raised his hand to a woman! He violated all kinds of laws and is probably in jail/rehab/picking up trash/committing more crimes right now.Not only did he ruin the movie, and any good morals this society has left in it, but he took ANY suspense out of the movie all while overacting. When they were picking the members of the final 'crew' he was worried he was not going to get picked. WHAT!? He is a famous (sadly) person, why would they only have him in a couple scenes. OF COURSE they are going to pick him. Therefore having him get picked last to build 'suspense' made no sense. As per his unfortunate fame we already knew he would get picked.Also horrible racial stereotypes abound in this movie. As if ppl are defined by their race! Very backwards thinking. Your race does not define you, your ACTIONS do. So sick of this racist crap.The movie basically turns out exactly the way you assume it will. Very boring. Worst of all the dancing was crap. Most of the moves are unoriginal and did not deserve the uproarious applause they got. And there is a conflict in the movie that makes no sense other than to further the plot.Avoid this movie and don't support Chris Brown and/or any project he works on. To do so would be to condone his abusive behaviours.