Idlewild (Blu-ray) R

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Blu-ray Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: January 21, 2020
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Universal MOD

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten47%

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Total Count: 130

Upright65%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 27,743
[Barber] impresses most in purely visual moments. He creates an imaginative inner life for his protagonists.
Sight and Sound
Oct 1, 2006
Its hodgepodge plot only heightens its stale smell Full Review
CinePassion
Aug 30, 2009
Rating: C+ -- The only hope for saving the humorless Idlewild is the atmospheric speak-easy setting, the great dancing numbers and the chill soundtrack. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Apr 23, 2018
3 stars out of 5 -- The musical sequences are outstanding, with the exceptional choreography and flashy cinematography more than a match for the big numbers.
Ultimate DVD
Mar 1, 2007
Especially exhilarating are the dance sequences, anachronistic fusions of hip-hop and swing...cut to a rhythm that emphasizes the moves on show.
Box Office
Oct 1, 2006
Rating: 2/4 -- A series of pretty-good pop videos wrapped around a confusing tale of Chitlin' Circuit striving and conniving. Full Review
Toronto Star
Aug 25, 2006
You don't have to have a stylistic device in every single shot.
Ebert & Roeper
Aug 28, 2006

Product Description:

André Benjamin and Antoine A. Patton--aka Andre 3000 and Big Boi of the hip-hop duo Outkast--star in this uproarious period piece, a comedy-drama-musical-action film set in Prohibition-era Virginia. Patton plays Rooster, the lead singer at a raucous, high-class all-black club called Church. Benjamin plays Percival, his best friend, who is the piano player at the club and the shy son of a funeral parlor owner (played by Ben Vereen). Terence Howard (HUSTLE AND FLOW) provides the menace as Trumpy, a vicious underling of Rooster's bootlegger father (Ving Rhames). Meanwhile, a beautiful singer (Paula Patton) comes to town and Percival finds himself falling in love--much to his terror, as he's afraid to leave the small community of Idlewild for the big city: Chicago, her next stop. As Rooster prepares for a showdown with Trumpy, Percival faces his fears, the band heats up, and the guns and songs come out for a big final night at the Church.

This is clearly a labor of love for writer/director Brian Barber and the Outkast crew: a color-saturated adrenalin rush of witty dialogue, loving attention to period detail, boisterous and athletic dancing, and lots of eye-popping digital animation (such as Rooster's talking/singing whiskey flask). Appearing in a bevy of diamond-studded cameos and bit parts are Cicely Tyson, Macy Gray, Cedric the Entertainer, Patti LaBelle, Jackie Long, Faizon Love, Malinda Williams, and child rapper Bobb'e J. Thompson, who is hilarious--and demonstrates some very fancy footwork--as the young Rooster.

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  • Sales Rank: 18,534
  • UPC: 191329129753
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