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Feel the Noise (2007)

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Average Rating: 3.6/10
Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 22

Despite the different musical genre, Feel the Noise is as generic as any music-themed film that has come before it.

11

Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 8

Despite the different musical genre, Feel the Noise is as generic as any music-themed film that has come before it.

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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 108,860

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Movie Info

A 21-year-old aspiring hip-hop star from the Bronx is forced to put his career on hold when a gang of local thugs threatens his life and he is forced to seek refuge with his estranged father in Puerto Rico in this musical drama from producer Jennifer Lopez. Rob (Omarion Grandberry) is a New York City rapper who has gotten into hot water in his hometown, and now must flee to Puerto Rico. Upon arriving at his father's home in the Caribbean commonwealth, Rob immediately forms a bond with his

PG-13,

Drama

Albert Leon

Jan 29, 2008

$5.9M

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All Critics (29) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (22) | DVD (5)

No one will mistake director Alejandro Chomski's Feel the Noise for great drama. But there's an undeniable sweetness to the characters, the performers are highly appealing, and the music sizzles.

October 8, 2007
Hollywood Reporter
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Could have used more music.

October 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Boston Globe
Boston Globe
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It's the subtexts -- about minority kinship and Hispanic self-actualization -- that resound. If only its fable (and leading man) didn't keep getting in the way.

October 8, 2007
New York Times
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The plot is contrived, the performances are all over the board, and Chomski's camera ogles his actresses just a little too much.

October 8, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News
New York Daily News
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I didn't feel this noise.

October 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
Toronto Star
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Instead of trying to find the heartbeat of reggaetón, the movie resorts to teen conventions, banking that its target audience -- Latino teens, who don't often see themselves onscreen -- won't know enough to demand better.

October 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Newsday
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A cool blend of Puerto Rican and Nuyorican rhythmic, racial and family ties that bind, Feel The Noise likewise taps into a hot fusion of African derived sounds and sensibilities that connect those multiple cross-continental roots together.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

It's hard to fault a screenwriter for cramming every idea he's ever had about anything into his first movie for fear there won't be a second.

October 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle

Producer Jennifer Lopez's cameo in the film's climactic Puerto Rican Day parade sequence feels like a victory lap for successfully bilking film financiers and moviegoers out of their money.

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
TheMovieReport.com

Dramatic tension and narrative momentum are MIA.

October 13, 2007
Reel.com

Reggaeton has officially come of age: The burgeoning subgenre now has a terrible, opportunistic exploitation movie to call its own.

October 12, 2007 Full Review Source: AV Club
AV Club

Possibly the least provocative hip-hop movie ever that didn't star Lil' Bow Wow, Feel The Noise is the kind of feel-good/kid-with-a-dream-overcomes-the-odds story we're used to seeing starring white kids named Hilary or Lance.

October 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies
Jam! Movies

...rambles heedlessly from cliche to cliche...

October 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review
Sacramento News & Review

An awkwardly executed drama with a leading man better suited for the concert stage, not the movie screen.

October 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Metromix.com
Metromix.com

First-time screenwriter Albert Leon appears to have turned for music industry insight not to his famous producer (who has no excuses) but to other music-themed movies (Mariah Carey's Glitter, perhaps?).

October 8, 2007 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly

This music-driven melodrama aims to salute and promote a cultural phenomenon -- reggaeton music, in this case -- by slathering it all over an instantly forgettable, cliché-laden pop flick.

October 8, 2007 Full Review Source: E! Online
E! Online

This simplistic teen drama features an engaging young star but doesn't miss a "follow your dreams" cliche.

October 8, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

You really can feel the noise...right down t your bones. And that's what this above-average movie is all about: Music.

October 7, 2007 Full Review
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

How do you say "sappy Horatio Alger tale" in Español?

October 7, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

A horrid excuse for teen escapism...for those who find Hannah Montana too challenging.

October 5, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

Audience Reviews for Feel the Noise

Movie needed more substance...fairly good though.
February 22, 2008
Fascade518

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A 90-minute reggaeton music video and soundtrack commercial.
October 13, 2007
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