Breakdance drama, starring Lost's Josh Holloway and singer Chris Brown, following an American crew of B-boys looking to overcome their egos...
Breakdance drama, starring Lost's Josh Holloway and singer Chris Brown, following an American crew of B-boys looking to overcome their egos and reclaim the Battle of the Year International Championship title.
Battle of the Year is the Olympics of break dancing, an international tournament held every year in France. The Americans haven't won in 15 years, but LA Hip Hop mogul and former B-Boy Dante (Laz Alonso) wants to put the country that started the sport back on top. He enlists Blake (Holloway), a reluctant basketball coach, to guide his team. Armed with the theory that the right coach can make any team champions, they assemble a dream team of all the best B-boys across the country.
From the makers of Planet B-Boy, a documentary on the annual championship.
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6 %52 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
49 %17,452 reviewsAudience score rating
13+Age suitabilityChildren & Media rating
"So fatally frontloaded with endless training montages, awfully written, indifferently acted drama, sports-film platitudes and jaw-dropping product placements that only the hardiest of viewers will make it through to the payoff."
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Variety
Variety"What could've been a fun '80s throwback ends up more frustrating that it's worth."
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Total Film
Total Film"Bastardizing his own 2007 doc, "Planet B-Boy," Benson Lee throws street cred to the breeze with this unspeakably rote Hollywood mockery of its deft nonfiction predecessor, with clueless bigotry as shrill as the squeak of new kicks on a stage floor."
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Time Out
Time Out"The miracle of the new 3-D dance film "Battle of the Year" is how it can be so relentlessly boring while there is so much frenetic activity on screen."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"It isn’t good by any stretch of the imagination, but B-movie lovers who like their dance movies flashy, fun, and spectacularly dumb shouldn’t mind."
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The Dissolve
The Dissolve"The young dancers' undeniable skill and athleticism is squandered in this formulaic, overly familiar dance movie."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Dismal, cliché-ridden stuff."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineBattle of the Year | Details
- Rating
- PG, Mild coarse language and violence
- Runtime
- 110
- Genre
- Drama, Sport
- Country of origin
- USA
