BEAT THE WORLD (Canada 2010) **
Directed by Robert Adetuyi

The third instalment of the YOU GOT SERVED movies, BEAT THE WORLD really stands on its own as another dance competition movie.  Perhaps that is the reason the original title YOU GOT SERVED: BEAT THE WORLD was shortened.  Typical with such films, the choreography is out of this world but everything else sucks.

Robert Adetuyi’s (who also wrote the script) film centres on three teams that battle at the international Beat the World competition in Detroit. In the final showdown to become world champions lifelong hopes, dreams and even lives, are at stake.  The first team is based in Detroit and led by Yuson (Tyrone Brown).  He is having issues with his girlfriend Maya (Mishael Morgan) who wants more dedication to her needs.  He hires a Brit named Justin (Chase Armitage) to train his teammates.  Easy is faced with reluctance but this white man knows how to handle himself.  Another team is based in Brazil in which the leader, Carlos (Shane LoClair) needs the winning money to cover debts.  The third team is the ‘bad’ one headed by a rather womanizing villain and based in Berlin and the winner of competition the year before.

The melodrama associated with each team is more ridiculous than clichéd.  The most annoying is the romance between Maya and Yuson, dragged right from the start to the every end of the film. If that is not enough, Adetuyi adds in another involving a teammate and a girl from the Brazilian group. Adetuyi dishes problems with each team as if there is no tomorrow.  There is only one winner to the $100,000 cash prize and the losing teams are left hanging with their monetary problems.  Also, with Yuson facing monetary problems, how can he afford to hire a Brit to train his team?

The choreography is fast, exciting and loud.  The dance off at the climax should not disappoint dance fans.  So, who really needs to know about the silly made-up baggage associated with each team that pulls this movie way down in entertaining value?  BEAT THE WORLD is the film so far this year to have the best bodies (both male and female) on display on screen.