Driving by his deep will of winning the competition ' The battle of the year trophy', where America has not win 15 years ago, Dante Graham, does his best and creates a team of talented and best dancers, in order to participate in the competition and win, but they frustrated by the obstacles they face.
21 July 1979, Bilbao, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain
22 September 1983, Oldenburg, West Germany
24 August 1983, Montclair, California, USA
10 November 1986, New York City, New York, USA
30 December 1986, San Diego, California, USA
13 January 1979, Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
15 October 1985, Sacramento, California, USA
June 23, 2016
Not only does it fail to use 3D, with its rapid edits, but the dramatic stuff is poorly edited and sound mixed as well.
September 20, 2013
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.
September 20, 2013
Battle of the Year clearly features lots of brilliant dancers, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy watching them move. But you wish there were more dancing here.
September 23, 2013
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.
September 20, 2013
Should satisfy the planet of b-boys and girls to whom it thoroughly preaches, while amusing anyone else who simply can't ignore the promise of an all-corn buffet.
February 06, 2014
Josh Holloway tries his hardest, God bless him, but Battle of the Year 3D can't even be enjoyed as a blissfully dumb entry in its genre.
December 12, 2013
I didn't think it was possible, but "Battle of the Year" is more pandering than the entire "Step Up" series combined...
February 14, 2014
Even when a dance movie is following the formula as closely as Battle of the Year does, occasionally something you won't get to see anywhere else slips through.
January 28, 2015
Despite the reasonable dancing scenes and passable acting by singer Chris Brown, Battle Of The Year is a string of clichés, stock characters and unbearable melodrama.
November 11, 2013
Dismal, cliché-ridden stuff.
September 20, 2013
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.
September 20, 2013
The movie's inability to showcase its greatest asset, the grace and control of its dancers, is its most conspicuous failing.
