Directed by:
Benson LeeCinematography:
Michael BarrettComposer:
Christopher LennertzCast:
Josh Holloway, Josh Peck, Chris Brown, Laz Alonso, Weronika Rosati, Giovanni V. Giusti, Caity Lotz, Joko Winterscheidt, Klaas Heufer-Umlauf, Keith Stallworth (more)VOD (2)
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Battle of the Year is an international dance crew tournament that attracts all the best teams from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years. Los Angeles Hip Hop mogul Dante Graham wants to put the country that started the Sport back on top. He enlists his hard-luck friend Jason Blake, who was a championship basketball coach, to coach his team. Armed with the theory that the right coach can make any team champions, they assemble a dream team of all the best dancers across the country. With only three months until Battle of the Year, Blake has to use every tactic he knows to get twelve talented individuals to come together as a team if they're going to bring the Trophy back to America where it started. (official distributor synopsis)
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When at the beginning of a dance film you hear that Americans don't have a good enough team to compete with other nations, it's pretty clear that by the end of the film, they will have that team. They actually have it to begin with, but it needs to be awakened within these people. And so a basketball coach is hired, who has enough of his own problems, turns all those rebels into well-behaved boys, and they can go play in the championships or something like that. Well, why bother with something more complicated when it's mainly about relationships - relationships that are incredibly silly, boring, and predictable? Acting-wise, it's nothing special; Josh Holloway is here mostly because he's somewhat famous and has a good-looking face. It's a waste of time, and the saddest part is that even from the perspective of dancing, there's very little of it here. Even the ending can't save it.
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