Battle of the Year attracts all the best teams from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years. Dante enlists Blake to assemble a team of the best dancers and bring the Trophy back to America where it started.
Director: Benson Lee
Stars: Josh Holloway, Laz Alonso, Josh Peck.
Dave Scott ... supervising choreographer
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1532958/
Didn't find it online when it's turn came, and its low IMDb rating discouraged me from looking for it. Saw the trailer on another disc, found a purchase for less than Amazon wants to rent it.
41 songs in the Soundtracks.
This is close to being a 6+. It has heart and dance and sweat and beat. And very little violence.
However, b-boy is literal here; the only significant woman in the cast is the team's on-screen choreographer. And the editing of the dance is of the splintered school - so many cuts you wonder how long the boys can actually dance. Until the end of the film, that is. Then we get lengthier segments. A lot of the dance footage was delivered shaky-cam - very disappointing - but the segments are so short...
The dancing that was in focus and onscreen long enough to enjoy was mostly athletic and in-sync, as portrayed in the trailer. It would be nice to have another hour of cut dancing as extras. No such luck.
Rated 5.1 (8,728)
Actual reviews run the gamut.
distr. Screen Gems; dir. Lee; 6
