Sunday, October 30, 2005
REVIEW: ROLL BOUNCE
This movie was a lot of fun, so if you missed it at the theaters, check it out when it hits DVD. Rapper Bow Wow (Like Mike) stars as Xavier ("X" for short), the oldest child of widower Curtis (Chi McBride, Waiting). X loves to spend his summer days roller skating at the local roller rink with his pals, and they're deflated when they find out that their local rink is shutting down. The boys now have to travel to the other side of town to the fancy roller rink called Sweetwater.
Set in the 70's, the movie is full of sweet music and awesome skate routines. X encounters a former gal pal at their new rink, Naomi (Meagan Good, TV's Kevin Hill), meets a new neighbor named Tori (Jurnee Smollett, TV's Full House), and the highlight is the skate-off that X and his friends participate in against the rink's star skater Sweetness (Wesley Jonathan, TV's What I Like About You) and his team of skaters. Of course there's alot of teen angst along the way and some touching momenst between X and his father over the death of his mother. By the way, Nick Cannon does have a series of very brief cameos throughout the film as the kid who runs the skate rental counter - what has happened to his promising post-Drumline career?!
Official Website: http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/rollbounce/
Trivia: Ten percent of the movie's opening weekend gross was donated to the victims of Hurricane Katrina
Grade: 4 out of 5 Lone Stars
