Battlefield America 2012

Critics score:
8 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Jeffrey Gantz, Boston Globe: If you're looking for a tough, streetwise film about urban kids who get together to enter a national hip-hop dance competition, "Battlefield America" is not your movie. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Mmmm-hmmm, it's on. Again. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: Even the most forgiving viewers may feel like they've been underestimated - and underserved. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Earnest emotions can't quite trump an awkward approach in Chris Stokes' followup to 2004's "You Got Served." Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: The teams seem to be competing for little more than bragging rights and one of those giant "Toddlers & Tiaras" trophies. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: A pic so thoroughly generic as to suggest a contraption assembled from spare parts with the aid of a how-to manual. Read more

Ernest Hardy, Village Voice: Although it's grotesque to see pre-teens stomping in underground warehouse-battle settings, at least Battlefield America's racial politics are interesting. Read more