Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)
This documentary is energetic, iconoclastic and ragged. It's filled with a vibrancy that is rather refreshing in this genre filled with staid homework-style movies. It's also, unfortunately, about skateboarding -- a subject which I find far less fascinating than, say, differential calculus or the life cycle of the saltwater sponge. And it's insanely self-congratulatory, to the point of aggravation; you'd think one or two of these guys had split the atom rather than birthing the X-Games. I mean, I know it's about rebellion and doing your own thing and leaving your mark, and that's cool. But even The Filth and the Fury was tempered with humility.
Grade: C+
This documentary is energetic, iconoclastic and ragged. It's filled with a vibrancy that is rather refreshing in this genre filled with staid homework-style movies. It's also, unfortunately, about skateboarding -- a subject which I find far less fascinating than, say, differential calculus or the life cycle of the saltwater sponge. And it's insanely self-congratulatory, to the point of aggravation; you'd think one or two of these guys had split the atom rather than birthing the X-Games. I mean, I know it's about rebellion and doing your own thing and leaving your mark, and that's cool. But even The Filth and the Fury was tempered with humility.
Grade: C+
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