ROLL BOUNCE
ROLL BOUNCE makes me feel like dancing. It's a terrific movie with good performances, great music and some fantastic roller-skating. After I got out of the theater I put the Jackson 5 on my iPod and shuffled and grooved down the street til I got home.
It's a summer comedy about a group of friends in the late 1970's who rule the roller rink in their part of town, til it shuts down and they're forced to skate uptown at the bigger, swankier Sweetwater rink where the competition suddenly gets a lot fiercer. They enter the Skate-Off against local roller-staking god Sweetness and his crew, who makes an entrance so dramatic even James Brown would be envious.
Bow Wow plays X, a teenager whose mother recently passed away. Chi McBride does a great job as his father who wears a suit, packs a briefcase and goes to the city every morning to look for work--not having told his family that he was laid off months earlier. There's a great feeling of hanging-out in the summer, relaxing during the day and having to run home when the street lights come on. There's also a pretty touching story about the family and how they cope with the loss of their mother.
It's got drama and comedy but the star of the movie is the roller-skating, set to a nonstop soundtrack of 70's funk and disco. Its structure is pretty solid formula but the performances are a lot of fun, the humor is light-hearted and entertaining, and combined with the groovy sounds and roller-skating dance moves it makes one of the best times I've had at the movies in weeks.
Jeff
It's a summer comedy about a group of friends in the late 1970's who rule the roller rink in their part of town, til it shuts down and they're forced to skate uptown at the bigger, swankier Sweetwater rink where the competition suddenly gets a lot fiercer. They enter the Skate-Off against local roller-staking god Sweetness and his crew, who makes an entrance so dramatic even James Brown would be envious.
Bow Wow plays X, a teenager whose mother recently passed away. Chi McBride does a great job as his father who wears a suit, packs a briefcase and goes to the city every morning to look for work--not having told his family that he was laid off months earlier. There's a great feeling of hanging-out in the summer, relaxing during the day and having to run home when the street lights come on. There's also a pretty touching story about the family and how they cope with the loss of their mother.
It's got drama and comedy but the star of the movie is the roller-skating, set to a nonstop soundtrack of 70's funk and disco. Its structure is pretty solid formula but the performances are a lot of fun, the humor is light-hearted and entertaining, and combined with the groovy sounds and roller-skating dance moves it makes one of the best times I've had at the movies in weeks.
Jeff
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