World's Best

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World's Best

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2023

1h 41m

Musical

Comedy

Adventure

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In "World's Best," 12-year-old mathematics genius Prem Patel (Manny Magnus), in the midst of navigating the tumultuous hardships of adolescence, discovers his recently deceased father was a famous rapper and immediately sets out to pursue a career for himself as a rap superstar. While his actions may appear reckless and the quickest way for him to lose everything, Prem, empowered by imaginative hip-hop music-fueled fantasies where he performs with his father (Utkarsh Ambudkar), is determined to find out if hip-hop truly is in his DNA. As his father always used to say, "the world's best never rest."

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

These lessons may be corny, but when set to the right beat, they’re still catchy.

Jun 27, 2023

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Amy Nicholson

New York Times

Suresh performed in the aughts, but wears ’90s Timberlands and worships the ’80s hitmaker Doug E. Fresh. Maybe the whiz kid can calculate the rate at which nostalgia flattens time? Yet, the script is otherwise attuned to the emotional and comedic details

Jun 23, 2023

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Robert Levin

Newsday

The musical sequences are great, but there's much more to "World's Best" than that.

Rated: 3/4

Jun 23, 2023

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Rachel Wagner

Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)

I loved the relationship between father and son and their bond

Jan 8, 2024

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Emma Clark-Dow

The Post NZ

An extremely wholesome, kid-friendly watch.

Jul 14, 2023

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Joel Keller

Decider

The story doesn’t have the extreme highs and lows of other coming-of-age films, but that just leads to a story that more closely resembles real life than most films in this genre.

Jul 5, 2023

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Wilberto C

Watched this with my 26 month old he loved it and so did I! Good life lessons, entertaining it had my son dancing and trying to rap !!! ♥️

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/02/24

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Ethan A

The film was just stupid. Too silly

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

11/20/23

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Jeffrey M

World's Best was an amazing movie. I finished it just now and I really liked it. World's Best was a movie that was funny when it was funny. World's Best was a very interesting movie. It started off a bit cheesy, but then it became not cheesy at all. What a good movie. I give it a 76%.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/28/23

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diogo13

Este filme não cumpre exatamente a tarefa da maneira que seu protagonista costuma fazer.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/02/23

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J P

I loved this. Great story. Great characters. And anything Ambudkar is in nowadays feels like it just turns to gold, but all of the actors were phenomenal in their roles.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/22/23

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Ethan A

It was extremely goofy. Was that a good thing- yes and no

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/16/23

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Synopsis

In "World's Best," 12-year-old mathematics genius Prem Patel (Manny Magnus), in the midst of navigating the tumultuous hardships of adolescence, discovers his recently deceased father was a famous rapper and immediately sets out to pursue a career for himself as a rap superstar. While his actions may appear reckless and the quickest way for him to lose everything, Prem, empowered by imaginative hip-hop music-fueled fantasies where he performs with his father (Utkarsh Ambudkar), is determined to find out if hip-hop truly is in his DNA. As his father always used to say, "the world's best never rest."

Director: Roshan Sethi
Producer: Thomas Kail, Kate Sullivan-Green
Screenwriter: Utkarsh Ambudkar, Jamie King, Utkarsh Ambudkar
Distributor: Disney+
Production Co: Walt Disney Pictures
Rating: PG (Some Language|Thematic Elements)
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 23, 2023
Runtime: 1h 41m

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