Supercross (2005)
Average Rating: 2.8/10
Reviews Counted: 71
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 67
While it showcases some cool stunts, Supercross feels like an infomercial for its titular sport, with undeveloped characters and a shopworn plot.
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 19
While it showcases some cool stunts, Supercross feels like an infomercial for its titular sport, with undeveloped characters and a shopworn plot.
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Movie Info
Two siblings find themselves competing on and off the racetrack in this action-packed drama. K.C. Carlyle (Steve Howey) and his kid brother, Trip (Mike Vogel), are both racers in the rough and tumble world of supercross, a revved-up variation on motocross racing in which specially modified motorcycle negotiate specially built dirt tracks that send riders through tricky twists and turns, over rough terrain, and off high-flying jumps. Both are talented racers, but K.C. has a wilder and more
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Cast
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Steve Howey
K.C. Carlyle -
Mike Vogel
Trip Carlyle -
Cameron Richardson
Piper Cole -
Sophia Bush
Zoe Lang -
Aaron Carter
Owen Cole -
Channing Tatum
Rowdy Sparks -
Robert Patrick
Earl Cole -
Robert Carradine
Clay Sparks -
Carolina Garcia
Starr -
Ryan Locke
Jeff Johnson -
J.D. Pardo
Chuy -
David Castillo
Jimmy Castillo -
Erin Bates
Herself -
David Pingree
Billy -
Alana Austin
Rider Girlfriend -
Little Jamie Watts
Herself -
Terry Boyd
Himself -
Richard Danielson
Rowdy's Mechanic -
Tyler Evans
Himself -
Rick Johnson
Assistant -
Erin Lear
Hairstylist -
Joey Bucarro
Biker -
Antonia Jones
Nurse -
Dan Gunther
Dr. Simms -
Adriana Bilan
Bike Girl -
Ricky Johnson
Himself -
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All Critics (71) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (67) | DVD (9)
You could see the same thing for free -- with higher production values and snappier dialogue -- watching X Games coverage on ESPN.
Top CriticLike the drive-in classics of Roger Corman and Samuel Z. Arkoff, this develops the principal characters and conflicts with just enough depth and keeps the narrative moving at a brisk pace.
Director Steve Boyum, a former motocross driver, hacks his racing footage to incomprehensible pieces and, from the looks of the meager, jumpy narrative, did the same to the script.
The writing is abysmal, the acting wouldn't pass muster in a high school play, and the direction by erstwhile stuntman Steve Boyum (Timecop: The Berlin Decision) is positively sleep-inducing between cycle jumps.
An example of how too much of anything will get annoying -- including VVRRRROOOOOOOMMM and flying bikes.
A lemon, running on empty from the starting line to the final flag.
That's right, it's time for yet another entry in that most-dreaded of genres: The XXXTREME Sports Movie.
It might hold some appeal if you're as teenager with a thing for dirt bikes.
It's a bizarre, contradictory mess, a lousy promotion for a sport still unknown to many Americans
Finally, we get Supercross: The Movie, which basically fills in the holes Supercross: The Novel left behind.
As a fetishized appropriation of the extreme sport of Supercross motorcycle racing, for a story about two different-but-similar racing brothers, "Supercross" succeeds in combining fast action with slow burn emotional fuses.
Mercifully, it's a mad dash to the final finish line.
The cinematography has the cheap, washed-out look of old home movies, but director Steve Boyum provides some exciting race footage to pass the time.
Too bad the DVD doesn't just cut out all the exposition and plot and (yikes) the actors
Save your hate-mails, motorheads. I'm not knocking your favorite sport, just the amazingly brain-dead movie that it inspired.
Supercross has its charms for those who appreciate cinematic innocence, and as a love letter to its subject certainly registers as sincere.
Only the most devoted MX fetishists could like the film, because it doesn't offer a scrap of nourishment for the uninitiated.
A short and frantic cookie cutter of a sports movie that will please fans of the sport, but probably won't bring more to the fray.
I've made bologna sandwiches that inspired more enthusiasm.
Part advertisement for Clear Channel's Supercross broadcasts and part hellish miscalculation on the part of the producers.
When the first line of a movie is "My name is Trip Carlyle," you know you're in trouble. That sounds like a guy stuck in the '80s with a made up name.
A long infomercial.
More like flipping back and forth between ESPN and one of the less-demanding teen-centric TV networks than a movie.
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