Idlewild (2006)
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Big Boi, Andre 3000, Macy Gray, Terrence Howard, Patti LaBelle
DVD Info
Release:
Dec 5, 2006
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Snap Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- Dolby Digital - English
- Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
Addtional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - Bryan Barber - Director
- Deleted Scenes
- Deleted Songs - Deleted Outkast Song
- Music Videos - 1. "Morris Brown" - Big Boi
- 2. "Idlewild Blue" - Andre 3000
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Reviews
1930s black America becomes just a stage for OutKast's vanity project.
Neither fish nor fowl. Nor foul, either, though not great--and ultimately, more idle than wild.
In spite of several inspired moments where it exhibits some genuine promise, this desperate attempt to be all things to all people ends up sabotaging any potential to make a memorable contribution to the annals of cinema.
The music, which sounds like a collaboration between Cab Calloway and Run DMC, keeps the story flowing.
Idlewild overflows with inventiveness and random weirdness that sort of make it a must-see even if it isn't a particularly good film.
Outside of the musical numbers, Idlewild is nothing more than an old-fashioned crime melodrama, a generic jumble of Prohibition-era gangsters and aspiring musicians - any one storyline instantly recognizable from a dozen other films.
For a band whose music is suffused with such delicate irony, you’d expect at the very least for there to be a few laughs along the way? There are none. Nothing. Zero.
Fans happy to luxuriate in its artistic indulgence, however, will be swept up in the weird, random, fantastic OutKastness of it all.
You have to hand it to those OutKast fellas -- even when they make a mess, they do it with style.
an eccentric, audacious musical that, like "Moulin Rouge," blends backstage drama, tragic romance and flights of fantasy into a story that bravely jumps from genre to genre and from era to era.
An imaginatively rendered and ultimately touching expression of the collision of creativity and responsibility, and the former bursting through the constraints of a small town outlook of diminished expectation.
You'll probably come to Idlewild for the musical excitement, but you may just find yourself leaving with a surprisingly bittersweet lump in your throat.
Structurally all over the place but its infectious rhythms more than make up for narrative deficiencies.
Coming from a band as creative as OutKast, this film is a big letdown, because it lacks any creativity of its own.
The only real problem is the inconsistency of performances from the individually outstanding cast.
Never idle, and always wild, "Idlewild" truly is an adults-only musical about gangsters.
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