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So much average

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

Maybe it was low expectations after seeing several middling pics in a row- but I was pleasantly surprised by Roll Bounce - an charming and fun flick about teens in the roller disco era- Bow Wow was the lead in this movie playing X a son who is still grieving for his recently deceased mother.Chi Mcbride does a great job as a father who is looking for work while trying to hold his family together and deal with the passing of his beloved.For the most part this is a comedy- the kids cut on each other the whole flick- and it is fun.The crosstown rival is Sweetness- who is like the pimpdaddy of roller disco- he has an entourage including 3 hotties who have shirts that read "a weakness for Sweetness".The gag reel has some hilarious stuff with Charlie Murphy riffing .A good coming of age flick. Probably the second best rental coming out this week-right behind 40 Year Old Virgin B+

2005's Roll Bounce is a fun and entertaining film. I had no interest in seeing it but my mom wanted to and so I rented it from Blockbuster and watched it last night. And I was pleasantly surprised. This was a fun and quite entertaining film. Bow Wow plays Xavier Smith, a teen who lives with his father and younger sister and who's mother has just passed away. He and his friends love to roller skate and one day their beloved skating rink has been shut down. But luckily a new and improved skating rink called Sweetwater opens up. It's owner is a brash, cocky, and handsome guy named Sweetness, played by Wesley Jonathon. Sweetness is an excellent skater, and so Xavier and his friends find out that there's gonna be a skate off in a couple of weeks, so they make a plan to outskate Sweetness and become the best skaters ever. Yeah, this plot does sound a little silly but it was really fun. To me the most entertaining parts of the film were seeing everyone skate and do their skating tricks. Mainly because I never learned to skate and I wonder how they do it! Skating was always so difficult for me. I never could do it! And then seeing these kids on that roller rink skating makes me wish I had learned! It looks like so much fun! So it was very exciting to see these kids perform different methods of skating. All the actors did fine jobs. Especially Bow Wow. He had some great one-liners and he's a cute guy and he seemed to have a lot of fun doing this movie and doing all that skating. He was a blast to watch. And the actors who played his friends had some funny one-liners too and my mom and I were laughing a lot. This was a very funny film also. I forget his name but the actor who played Bow Wow's dad was also really funny. He was a joy to watch too. Nick Cannon was OK in the small role he had. He didn't add anything special to the film and we could've done without him. But he was still pretty funny.But even if the plot of the film sounds silly, I think you should definitely watch this film for the awesome soundtrack! Anyone who grew up in the 70s with 70s music will enjoy it immensely. My mom was loving it! She just kept mentioning how much she loved the soundtrack and she was singing almost every song that came on! I was born in the 80s but I still enjoyed the soundtrack too. And for me that was what added to the excitement of the film. Even if you're not entertained by the skating, you will definitely be entertained by the soundtrack and the music! This was a fun film and I'm glad I rented it. Thank you for reading my review!

"Roll Bounce" is a very good movie. The only bad thing about the movie is the vulgar hip-hop language but it is acceptable because most of these roller skating maniacs in the flick were teenagers who were starting to adore the world of what would be called hip-hop--which was more than just a dance form---it had its own type of style and language. The rest of the movie was pleasing."Roll Bounce" definitely has a taste of "Saturday Night Fever" with some of not only the great disco hits in its soundtrack, but also some of the 1970's R and B hits at the time. The song "Barracuda" is also played---but it has absolutely nothing to do with the "Barracuda Hideout" depicted in "Fever."I was a partial fan of the roller-skating-disco craze in the 1980s. There used to be a club in Chicago called "The Loop Roller Disco" near Halsted and 95th St. I also went to a similar roller rink in Markham, IL. I remember almost all of the stuff "Roll Bounce" gives to the viewer as I experienced for myself in the roller rink in person--the moving colorful lights in the rink area, a deejay in a low-sounding voice giving all of the skaters something new to do (for example, "skate backwards") and all of the skaters skating around counterclockwise (almost always) in their attempt to create clean, good fun. Both clubs, however, went out of business in the mid-1980s when the disco craze completely fizzled out for other sub-genres of pop and rock music that were waiting to fill the void. A few dialogue sequences in "Roll Bounce" talk about something about the South Side of Chicago--once I heard them, I was hooked to reminisince a variation of the disco dance craze that was short-lived---even if it (the dance) was on roller skates and not platform shoes."Roll Bounce" also has a taste of the flicks "Beat Street" and even "Flashdance" because some of the roller skaters added some break dancing skills on the wooden rink on their skates. Moreover, "Roll Bounce" is more vivacious than "Beat Street" because "Roll Bounce" has more dance sequences.

I have seen this movie for like the 5th time. I think it is an awesome movie.Good movie for the kids, no sex or harsh language.One bad word in the whole movie and trust me most kids hear that word ever day I remember the age of roller disco and the movie brought back some really cool memories. My daughter loves BOW WOW and she has watched it several times with me. My husband, who mind you did not want to see it, actually enjoyed the movie.I laughed and i cried and put on my skates and tried to roller disco. Being in the roller derby, that was a given. Bow Wow was great in the movie. I would suggest this movie to anyone, whether they grew up with roller disco, have heard of roller disco or have never heard of roller disco. Roller disco will come back one day just like the roller derby did.. Go Harrisburg Area Roller Derby