It's a comedy filled with non-star actors, a sloppy story and misfired humor.
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08/14/03
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Grind (2003)
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Reviews Counted:70
Fresh:6
Rotten:64
Average Rating:3.1/10
Consensus: Mediocre skateboard stunts are padded by a half-baked plot and one-dimensional characters.
Theatrical Release:Aug 15, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $5,111,630
Synopsis: Grind (verb): scraping one or both axles of a skateboard on a curb, railing, or other surface While the rest of his high school graduating class is heading to the same old grind of college,... [More]
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Reviews for Grind
Laughs are virtually nil, despite a plethora of crude attempts at humor: jokes about vomiting, defecating, flatulence, bosomy babes.
08/14/03
It's obvious none of the 'skateboarders' can really skate, so Grind ends up feeling like a mash-up of two different movies.
08/14/03
A jaw-dropping exercise in futility.
08/14/03
Top CriticFar too much of the movie's energy is devoted to rampaging hormones and irritable bowels.
08/14/03
Top CriticManages to capture enough honest moments to make it watchable, but it's never really funny enough to recommend to anyone who's outgrown short pants and kneepads.
08/14/03
A crass, condescending piece of corporate bamboozling.
08/14/03
Braying teen sports fantasy.
08/14/03
Top CriticIt's a cheap, half-baked attempt at a summer road-trip comedy.
08/14/03
Top CriticThese characters are so flat, the story line so one-dimensional, that the whole triumph-over-adversity bit just loses its bite after the first five minutes of adversity.
08/14/03
You'd feel sorry for the poor actors if they weren't so perpetually annoying.
08/14/03
Top CriticYour standard 'kids on the road pursuing their dream' movie, interchangeable with any other. No standout bits, but very little stands out as not working at all, so you’re in that safe zone of joyful mediocrity.
08/14/03
It may not be deep, but it's sincere -- even a bit weird.
08/14/03
The press materials for this movie explain that "grind" refers to a particularly spectacular skateboarding move. In my case, it referred to what my teeth were doing as I had to sit through this dumb and boring movie.
08/14/03
Sitting through this shoddy, boring production is most certainly a grind.
08/14/03
Excruciating...an astoundingly awful follow-your-dream fantasy, so bad it might make you look back fondly on 'Gleaming the Cube' and 'Airborne.'
08/13/03
Think Blue Crush without water — or awesome surfing footage, likable characters with real personalities, beautiful girls in bikinis or anything else worth watching.
08/12/03
A tip for filmmakers attempting to appeal to young moviegoers: Don't hire thirtysomething actors to play recent high-school graduates.
01/15/03
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