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Idlewild (2006)

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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 125
Fresh: 60 | Rotten: 65

Idlewild has some truly breathtaking moments, but borrows too heavily from other similar movies, and the disjointed script is not worthy of talents involved.

45

Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 21

Idlewild has some truly breathtaking moments, but borrows too heavily from other similar movies, and the disjointed script is not worthy of talents involved.

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 27,436

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Movie Info

OutKast duo André "Andre 3000" Benjamin and Antwan Andre "Big Boi" Patton star as two Prohibition-era performers determined to fend off the vicious gangsters currently attempting to gain a stake in the pair's lucrative club in this musical drama directed by longtime collaborator Bryan Barber and featuring choreography by three-time Tony award winner Hinton Battle. In the 1930s, Idlewild was the hottest speakeasy in the South thanks to the impressive showmanship of flamboyant manager/lead

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Musical & Performing Arts, Drama

Bryan Barber

Dec 5, 2006

$12.5M

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All Critics (131) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (66) | DVD (4)

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.

October 14, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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You don't have to have a stylistic device in every single shot.

August 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment (1)
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Shakespeare has been quoted many, many times over the past 400 or so years, but never to such empty purpose as in the inchoate, self-indulgent musical drama Idlewild

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal
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By jumbling genres, fashions, music and locales, and riddling bullets through much of it, Idlewild ends up feeling disjointed and disquieting.

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: USA Today
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A series of pretty-good pop videos wrapped around a confusing tale of Chitlin' Circuit striving and conniving.

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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Comic, dramatic, highly conceptual and all great fun.

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
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Benjamin and Patton have devised a basic Prohibition era gangster story as a background for their newest musical experiment melding modern hip-hop with the jazz and blues of the '30s, all put together with a great deal of visual cleverness and flair.

March 27, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net
ComingSoon.net

Its hodgepodge plot only heightens its stale smell

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
CinePassion

Violent musical featuring OutKast. Not for kids.

July 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Though not as good as I hoped it would be, it's still an above par musical effort in the end...

July 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Cinema Crazed

1930s black America becomes just a stage for OutKast's vanity project.

March 15, 2007 Full Review

Neither fish nor fowl. Nor foul, either, though not great--and ultimately, more idle than wild.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

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.

February 8, 2007 Full Review Source: BlackFilm.com
BlackFilm.com

Visually, the picture pleasantly harks back to a bygone era, but it simultaneously undercuts that sense of nostalgia by indulging in incessant profanity, the N-word, rap music and some thoroughly modern dance moves.

February 8, 2007 Full Review Source: AALBC.com
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The music, which sounds like a collaboration between Cab Calloway and Run DMC, keeps the story flowing.

December 13, 2006 Full Review Source: Nolan's Pop Culture Review

Idlewild overflows with inventiveness and random weirdness that sort of make it a must-see even if it isn't a particularly good film.

December 4, 2006 Full Review Source: NightsAndWeekends.com
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Audience Reviews for Idlewild

See it. Chances are, you'll fall in love with Idlewild in spite of how many times you've seen this plot before. But that might be the Georgia boy in me talking...
June 11, 2011
jarobb3

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This movie is beautiful. It's everything Chicago should have been: the music, the characters, the set design, the costumes, the script, the strange balance between tragedy, comedy and romance. This movie is really something special. Beautifully shot and the story is very well-crafted and tight. I love the surreality of the animation and the visual effects. Where was this during the Oscars?
February 12, 2008
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