Battle of the Year PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 10, 2013
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Josh Holloway & Chris Brown | |
Performer: | Laz Alonso & Josh Peck | |
Directed by | Benson Lee | |
Composition by | Christopher Lennertz | |
Produced by | Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson & Amy Lo | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Barrett | |
Executive Production by | William Packer & Glenn S. Gainor |
Entertainment Reviews:
its dramatization of a U.S. dream team's journey to the international showcase is leaden with predictable character types and storytelling clichés, neither of which its well-executed but oddly infrequent dance sequences are able to overcome.
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TheWrap
Rating: 2/5 --
Characters are not developed enough. You don't feel for them. Result being, you end up as mere spectators instead of well-wishers. While the film preaches 'passion' for whatever you do, it is exactly what seems to be missing from it.
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The Times of India
Rating: D+ --
The actual dancing scenes are occasionally electrifying, if far too sparse, but other than that and the welcome sight of co-star Chris Brown getting clocked in the face, the film barely gets off the ground, much less sticks the landing.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: D --
Not only does it fail to use 3D, with its rapid edits, but the dramatic stuff is poorly edited and sound mixed as well.
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The Film Stage
The young dancers' undeniable skill and athleticism is squandered in this formulaic, overly familiar dance movie.
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Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 0.5/5 --
A dead-in-the-soul cash grab of a movie set in the competitive world of B-boy dancing that thinks clichés, phony melodrama and product placement can substitute for real storytelling and actual characters.
MSN Movies
Proof that any movie can get made somehow.
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The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Product Description:
A veteran basketball coach whips a talented American breakdancing troupe into shape for the biggest b-boy competition in the world in this kinetic dance drama starring LOST's Josh Holloway. For breakdancers, winning the Battle of the Year is like taking the gold medal in the Olympics. Though the competition originated in the U.S., no American has taken the top prize in the past 15 years. A former b-boy with his eyes on the prize, L.A. hip-hop icon Dante (Laz Alonso) is determined to change that. But it's not going to be easy. In order to get the job done, Dante recruits his old friend Blake (Holloway) to help form a b-boy troupe comprised of the best dancers in the country. Having previously coached a basketball team to victory before falling on hard times, Blake knows a thing or two about winning. But with the competition just three weeks away, they'll need a small miracle to reclaim the Battle of the Year for their country. Undaunted, Dante and Blake prepare to dazzle the judges with the kind of moves that will prove b-boy culture is still alive and kicking in the country where it was born.