Battle of the Year

Much mileage has already been made from the old "dance-crew competition" storyline (check out the franchises for Step Up and Streetdance), but this unambitious offering proves that the barrel's bottom hasn't been scraped yet. The set-up here is that it's yonks since the Yanks last won the annual world dance-crew championships which now take place in France. B-boy entrepreneur Dante (Laz Alonso) decides that it's time to rectify that situation and persuades a jaded ex-basketball coach (Josh Holloway) to forge a "dream team" from the US's best individual break-dancers. It's as corny as Kellogg's, there's nothing that you won't have seen before, and you'd probably be better off going out and actually dancing rather than just watching a film about it. However, for all its clichés, Battle of the Year is brainlessly watchable.