It is the story of three groups of dancers entering a different turn through a dance competition. The group is preparing to join a contest in Detroit. In the final show, things seem to turn out to be a bad path as their lives are already under threat.
World is a lazy movie, with only a faint hint of conflict dusted over repetitive and illogical dance sequences. It's a bore from start to finish. Again, you probably already knew that.
A silly hip-hop dance-crew drama like Beat the World -- in which Brazil, Germany and Canada are revealed to be the three funkiest nations in the world, yo! -- does not just feel old-school. It just feels old.