Battle of the Year 3D

"Not content with taking their President in Olympus Has Fallen, the Koreans now claim the Americans' B-Boying title too – a title they haven’t won in over a decade. The US simply cannot allow this, so they send in an ex-basketball coach (Lost’s Josh Holloway) to slap the ego out of the nation’s top B-Boys in order to glue some necessary cohesion into ‘The Dream Team’. A sports film doesn’t have to tread new grounds to be effective, and Battle of the Year knows exactly when the big hand strikes montage-o’clock."

"So fatally frontloaded with endless training montages, awfully written, indifferently acted drama, sports-film platitudes and jaw-dropping product placements that only the hardiest of viewers will make it through to the payoff."

"What could've been a fun '80s throwback ends up more frustrating that it's worth."

"Bastardizing his own 2007 doc, "Planet B-Boy," Benson Lee throws street cred to the breeze with this unspeakably rote Hollywood mockery of its deft nonfiction predecessor, with clueless bigotry as shrill as the squeak of new kicks on a stage floor."

"The miracle of the new 3-D dance film "Battle of the Year" is how it can be so relentlessly boring while there is so much frenetic activity on screen."

"It isn’t good by any stretch of the imagination, but B-movie lovers who like their dance movies flashy, fun, and spectacularly dumb shouldn’t mind."

"The young dancers' undeniable skill and athleticism is squandered in this formulaic, overly familiar dance movie."

"Dismal, cliché-ridden stuff."