Battle of the Year is a 2013 American 3D dance film directed by Benson Lee.
The feature film includes cinematography by Vasco Nunes, Lee's director of photography on the original documentary.
[4] The film released theactrically on September 20, 2013 by Screen Gems, The film was universally panned by critics and audiences alike and was a box-office bomb, grossing $16 million and failed to recoup its budget of $20 million.
Film company Screen Gems first began planning for a feature film adaptation of Lee's documentary Planet B-Boy in 2009 after discovering that while interest in breakdancing had declined in the United States, it still enjoyed popularity in other countries.
The website's consensus reads: "With a hopelessly hokey plot and unintentionally hilarious dialogue, Battle of the Year is flimsy even by the standards of the dance movie genre.