Drumline Reviews
Countingdown.com
There's a reason why people go to the bathroom during halftime.
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| Original Score: C-
Apollo Guide
Its over-reliance on genre conventions, character types and formulaic conflict resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops.
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| Original Score: 63/100
Movie Metropolis
...it must be a good story, it's been told so many times before.
| Original Score: 5/10
It's pretty warm, fuzzy and entertaining, even if it isn't very good.
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| Original Score: C+
Film Blather
This is the same formula with different variables.
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| Original Score: C-
DustinPutman.com
Better than it has any right to be, yet remains an uneven affair not good enough to be worth running out and seeing.
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| Original Score: 2/4
L.A. Weekly
Director Charles Stone III fails to find a coherent grammar with which to shoot the band performances, leaving them flat and at a remove from the exuberant, pull-out-the-stops crowd pleasers they are presumably intended to be.
New Times
[B]ear in mind that this is a movie whose climax features the kind of college football halftime antics you might normally take a bathroom break to avoid watching.
Filmcritic.com
There is nothing inspirational about Drumline and the only interesting parts occur in the film's final stanza.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Internet Reviews
In place of Bring It On's humor, Drumline lays it on thick with a message a minute, all clichéd.
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| Original Score: 2/4
One Guy's Opinion
A thoroughly formulaic movie...the only truly new element here is the musicmaking background, and it's a fairly easy transplant.
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| Original Score: C
Boxoffice Magazine
Rife with nutty cliches and far too much dialogue.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Jam! Movies
A big, loud, bang-the-drum bore.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Drumline is -- the mere suggestion, albeit a visually compelling one, of a fully realized story.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Palo Alto Weekly
Slick choreography and a confident performance by Orlando Jones keep this tale from beating to the tune of the same old drum.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
[Drumline] is entertaining for what it does, and admirable for what it doesn't do.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Offers little that's surprising or groundbreaking, but, because the script is smart enough not to insult us and to develop a group of interesting characters, the act of watching the film is an entertaining experience rather than a tedious exercise.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
"Drumline" makes marching bands as soul-stirring as raise-the-roof gospel and more irresistibly, foot-stompingly, hip-hoppily thrilling than any video currently playing on MTV.
| Original Score: A-
Common Sense Media
Outstanding cast, great message, strong language.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Arizona Republic
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