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Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)
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Reviews Counted:92
Fresh:84
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: Dogtown and Z-Boys is a colorful, exhilarating look at the skateboarding subculture.
Theatrical Release:Apr 26, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $1,187,606
Synopsis: In the late 1960s, a group of burnt out teenagers from broken homes ambled together and began to surf along Venice, California's Pacific Ocean Park pier, a ghostly shell of a former amusement park... [More]
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07/15/02
It's impossible not to admire his joie de vivre -- and this movie's joie de vivre, as well.
07/11/02
Suitably energetic but thoroughly egotistical.
07/09/02
...this is a great document, and gives due credit to those who truly invented vertical skateboarding which is the predecessor of all the 'vertical' sports. God bless the Z-boys, every one.
06/28/02
Although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants, Dogtown and Z-Boys has a compelling story to tell.
06/24/02
Seeing how 99% of movies are designed to keep you on your keester, you have to respect one that inspires you to get off your ever-widening behind and do something real.
06/15/02
Peralta's filmmaking is nearly as audacious as his skating. The movie often looks like an underground document.
06/14/02
A uniquely visceral (if inevitably self-aggrandizing) piece of documentary filmmaking.
06/10/02
The story of how Santa Monica's Zephyr skate club created a bridge from the ho-dad '60s to the rad '80s is fascinating stuff.
06/10/02
This is pop history that blows your hair back.
06/07/02
Top CriticBlatant promotion aside, the chronicles of Dogtown make for fascinating insider cultural history.
06/07/02
Top CriticPoetry in motion captured on film. While it can be a bit repetitive, overall it's an entertaining and informative documentary.
06/04/02
Enormously enjoyable, high-adrenaline documentary.
06/01/02
An informative, nostalgic trip back to a fascinating era, told by those who knew it best.
05/31/02
At times, however, Dogtown and Z-Boys lapses into an insider's lingo and mindset that the uninitiated may find hard to follow, or care about.
05/31/02
About nowhere kids who appropriated turfs as they found them and become self-made celebrity athletes -- a low-down version of the American dream.
05/31/02
This documentary by Stacy Peralta makes a convincing case on behalf of skateboarding, of all things, as a catalyst for this change, and for some delinquent youths in a derelict Los Angeles neighborhood as its agents.
05/31/02
the subjects are all charismatic and interesting — any of them could have been the focus of their own documentary
05/31/02
Delivers a thrilling view of an era when a group of kids, almost by accident, defined 'cool' for a generation.
05/31/02
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