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 clicheline would have been a more accurate title. |
| this has the stench of MTV all over it.the taget audience will gobble this up while those with a dots worth of intelligence will quickly dismiss.yeah,i guess its a harmless''feel good,raise the,Da,roof''type movie.i would like to compare this to other movies of the same genre but none are so paint by the numbers like this one.marching bands,cheerleaders,coaches,all things school related......these are topics best served for saturday afternoon viewing at 30 minute increments.g0d bless target audiences. |
| Very Well-Written Teen Movie with one glaring problem |
DRUMLINE is one of the few teen movies made in the past few years that seems to actually have some intelligence behind it's writing. It doesn't rely on stupid humor or obscenity. Not that I have anything against either of those, I just don't like it when that's all a movie has going for it. The characters here are all realistic; the plot's a pretty good one; the acting's pretty decent. BUT, and this is what earns only a two star rating, the main character is THE most unlikeable 'hero' I've ever seen in a movie. He really is a huge jerk, and the characters I thought were right end up 'seeing the light' and agreeing with the hero in the end. He really did not deserve a spot on the drumline, and I was glad when he got kicked off.
But, really, I'm arguing semantics over a teen flick. If ya like it, I can't stop ya, you know. It's just not a movie for me. I'll just keep watching the old John Hughes movies. |
 Good Marching Band Film |
| Orlando Jones does a great job as the director of a college marching band. He usually plays black sterotype roles. Nick Cannon, who can't read music, somehow wins a music scholarship at a mostly black southern college, which seems to specialize in 300-piece field music. The band competition in the finale is the BEST. Great field routines, but music written for drum and & bugle corps. Mostly a showpiece for drummers. Lacking great band music, but I enjoyed the drum line! |
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