Dogtown and Z-Boys Critic Reviews
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An improbably bountiful subject -- kids on skateboards turning themselves into virtuoso artist-athletes -- has been brought to life in a wonderful, unpretentious documentary.Read the full review
A dazzlingly crafted documentary about the teenage surf punks of lower Los Angeles who singlehandedly transformed skateboarding into the extreme sport it has become.Read the full review
Using home movies, photos, a brilliant soundtrack and candid, articulate interviews, director Stacy Peralta (one of the original Z-boys) details the birth of a pop culture phenomenon.Read the full review
Do yourself a favor. Just go see it.Read the full review
So much fun that its considerable worth as history and sociology seems almost incidental.Read the full review
Does a terrific job of evoking the electric magic of an extraordinary era.Read the full review
The film is, however, almost inevitably wistful for the past, and many of its emotional touches come from juxtaposed then-and-now footage of the participants.Read the full review
Here is an entire movie about looking cool while not wiping out. Call it a metaphor for life.Read the full review
A fascinating story, albeit with some missed opportunities in the telling.Read the full review
As this taut, viscerally propulsive insider's history of the sport in its early years skids and leaps forward with a jaunty visual panache, it is impossible not to be seduced by its hard-edged vision of an endless teenage summer.Read the full review
