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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 13, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bow Wow & Nick Cannon | |
Performer: | Charlie Murphy, Kellita Smith, Marcus Paulk, Khleo Thomas, Chi McBride, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Wesley Jonathan, Brandon T. Jackson & Busisiwe Irvin | |
Directed by | Malcolm D. Lee | |
Edited by | George Bowers & Paul Millspaugh | |
Screenwriting by | Norman Vance, Jr. | |
Composition by | Stanley Clarke | |
Produced by | Jeremiah Samuels, Robert Teitel & George Tillman, Jr. | |
Director of Photography: | James M. Muro | |
Executive Production by | Dana Reid & Adam Robinson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
A movie made in the spirit of: what the world needs now is a bit of innocent diversion.
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Toronto Star
Rating: 1/4 --
For some reason, teasing people about their skin color has become a big theme of brainless black comedies like this. Plus, it unfolds like one long Pepsi ad, with dialogue extolling the cola's virtues in virtually every scene.
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BlackNews.com
This is the 40th "skating movie" to hit the screens since Charlie Chaplin's The Rink (1915). It is neither the best nor the worst of them - skater dudes may think its cool, but 25 years ago there was the much maligned Xanadu with ELO, ONJ and (sigh!) stil
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Urban Cinefile
Sometimes a film wins you over with its sheer exuberance and sweetness.
Ebert & Roeper
I enjoyed it in all its cheesiness.
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Cinema Crazed
Rating: 6/10 --
For the most part though, the honesty of the performances keeps everything afloat when it could drift into easy sentimentality.
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ComingSoon.net
The film can't get its rhythms right, fluctuating wildly between comedy and pathos.
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Washington Post
Product Description:
Full of the humor, mild humiliation, and bittersweet lessons of growing up, this coming-of-age comedy from Malcolm D. Lee (UNDERCOVER BROTHER) unfolds on the South Side of 1970s Chicago. Xavier (Bow Wow, LIKE MIKE) and his wisecracking crew of friends rule the local roller skating rink, but when it closes their summer looks to be an empty one. Reluctantly, they head over to Sweetwater, the glitzy rink across town where the rich kids skate, and where the cocky Sweetness (Wesley Jonathan) presides over all as the unchallenged king of the floor. The boys are ridiculed upon their arrival, and soon vow revenge at the upcoming competition, for which they begin to hone their skills. Meanwhile, X deals with his troubles at home, as his mother has recently died and his dad, Curtis (Chi McBride, I, ROBOT), struggles to make ends meet. The two attempt to understand each others' grief, and help one another to move beyond it. X also makes the acquaintance of new kid Tori (Jurnee Smollett, COSBY), a gawky girl with braces and a sharp tongue, who tags along with the boys as an ugly duckling, later to emerge a swan. Tori's hot mom (Kellita Smith, KING'S RANSOM) attracts a great deal of attention on the block, notably from two quick-talking garbage men (Mike Epps and Charles Q. Murphy in a hilarious bit part), and X tries to navigate his budding relationship with the seemingly-unattainable Naomi (Meagan Good, D.E.B.S.). The roller disco mania is infectious, driven by a great soundtrack featuring artists both new and old. The story, too, hits all the right notes, by turns touching and hilarious, with the underdogs-make-good story avoiding the saccharine, and giving Bow Wow the chance to shine.
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