Battle of the Year (3D)

The World is Watching

Yet another sports-underdog story, this time set in the world of competitive street dance. America has not won the international title for over 15 years, in spite of having invented the discipline. A music mogul ropes in his friend, a basketball coach, with orders to mold the best dancers he can find into a winning team. They failed, however, to win over the critics. This film is releasing in both 2D and 3D, this is the 3D version.

Parental Guidance 7-9 (Language, Violence).
Drama, Musical.

That floor's a bit too close ...

Credits

Cast	Josh Holloway, Laz Alonso, Josh Peck, Caity Lotz, Chris Brown
Director	Benson Lee
Screenplay	Brin Hill, Chris Parker, from the documentary by Benson Lee
Music	Christopher Lennertz
Cinematography	Michael Barrett
Editing	Alessandra Carlino, Peter S. Elliot
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Datasat
Made in	2013
Produced by	Contrafilm

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama, musical
Language	Frequent but low to mild
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Low to mild, infrequent, pushing and shoving
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Alcohol, low impact, contextually based, implied
Comments	Various themes skirted over that deal with alcoholic coach seeking redemption after the death of his family, moulding a team of different ethnic backgrounds together, triumph against all odds, etc., mainly non-threatening as the dance content of the film takes precedence.
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USA MPAA rating

PG: Parental Guidance Suggested	Rated PG-13 for language and some rude behavior
Runtime	110
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 13 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Helen Herimbi	5
ScreenIt C. Fuchs Yes, I might be far removed from the target demographic for this sort of film, but I still can recognize quality filmmaking or the lack thereof, and this battle is lost long before the final competition sequence.	4
Metacritic.com 19 critics	6
Rottentomatoes critics 43 critics	7
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer With a hopelessly hokey plot and unintentionally hilarious dialogue, Battle of the Year is flimsy even by the standards of the dance movie genre.	1
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	7
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation	5
What the People say
Internet 1330 Netizens	7
Average .. 26%	5