Beat the World (2011) Movie Review, Trailer and Poster

Canada 2011
Director: Robert Adetuyi
Cast: Tyrone Brown, Mishael Morgan, Nikki Grant, Ray Johnson, Chase Armitage, Kristy Flores
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: 13 May 2011 (Canada); 21 June 2011 (DVD); 23 July 2011 (Indonesia)
Running Time: 1 hour 31 minutes

The Movie Review

Passing by the 7 Eleven store at Senayan area, I could only bite my tongue and yell loud inside my mind "My Money!!! I want the hotdogs!" (Yes! Plural!)

No, I am not complaining about 7 Eleven, but regretting myself for having just spent 100,000 rupiahs for two tickets watching Beat the World last night! Arrgghhh what a waste of money... And Time! Tsk tsk tsk, how dare they use You Got Served as the a part of the title in USA distribution?! It's anything but You Got Served (2004). Now wonder this movie was distributed on DVD as is an awful film! Fellow Direct-to-DVD film, Save the Last Dance 2 (2006) would win the contest by extremely loud round of applause if to be compared with this boring boring and clock-watching dance film.


BEAT the WORLD
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Beat the World display in front of Senayan XXI entrance

Having just finished uploading The Echo (2008) yesterday afternoon, I initially had no plan of seeing any movies in cinemas, but I remembered that I hadn't seen the exhibition of Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon in Senayan City! After Shalat Maghrib, I took my wife straight to Senayan City to take pictures of us with Transformers three big robots including my favorite Bumblebutt, mmm I mean Bumblebee. Interestingly, the majority of the crowds seems to be my age and not kids, unfortunately Optimus Prime is not available. Afterwards, after settling for a light dinner, we opt to see Beat the World as our MidDateNite movie and leaving The Resident (2011), Larry Crowne (2011) and Blades of Blood (2011) for another day(s). It's the sequel of You Got Served! So, of course I wanted to see it, added that it's been on display everywhere in 21 Cineplex theatres since June. But oh my goodness.... What a total lost!

Beat the World has no soul! We practically don't care of the characters of their life or of anything pertaining them and it is worsen by the mixed bag acting. The real action begins at minute 50! And you would think 50 minutes would make the audience deeply care of the fate of protagonist dancers, but you will not care for them. Sloppy and confusing editing, uninteresting characters, uninteresting story doubled with predictably cheesy scenes. The guy is burden by his egotistical behavior, so the girl dumps him, so the guy feels blue and unable to concentrate, so the girl forgives him, so the guy can kick some a*s again... yadda yadda yadda.

Okay, okay, the real story is revolving around 3 dance crews from USA, Germany and Brazil who are trying to win the worldwide Beat the World dance tournament. But each group has their own internal problems. From USA, we got love triangle and one crew with true hip hop soul rejects the thought of being taught by a white dude who is great at Parkour. From Germany, the antagonist of the movie, the winner of last year Beat the World, is insulted when the manager orders someone else to create the choreography. From Brazil, they owe big sum of money with high interest to a loan shark, and they have to win the tournament to pay their debt. The scene just jumps from one group to another in which sometimes about their dance routine or about their uninteresting life.

"I'm gonna beat this movie up!!"
24 June-24 July, with possibilites of extending date until the movie shows up

I was getting restless thinking I had spent money for such boredom, and I wished they would eventually bring it on in the tournament. But once it showed... Man! The dance routine is plain ordinary. Except for one scene involving the German guy. The rest is just okay, maybe even below okay. I'm not criticizing this as dance jury but as moviegoer. No matter how great you are in dancing, if you can't wrap your skill in a nice package called Routine, general people might not get your talent...

It's amazing that Beat the World apparently written by the same guy who wrote Stomp the Yard (2007). Even a lousy dance spoof titled Dance Flick (2009) proof to be better now... And speaking about You Got Served, if You Got Served is opened with a loud bang and close with one f*cking awesome spellbinding jawdropping dance routine, then Beat the World is opened with "Whow!" and closed with "Preeeettttt!" (Hey did someone just fart?!) Skip It!

© iwan pranowo of Movielogy.com
posted: Sunday, 24 July 2011 05:20 am