Garage Days Reviews
July 18, 2003
The jokes are as lame as they are tame.
Original Score: 2/4
July 18, 2003
Though the storytelling is a bit lopsided, the slapdash quality is charming overall, and the movie benefits from colorful characters and a couple of hilarious scenes.
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| Original Score: 3/4
July 18, 2003
Fast, funny and extremely light.
July 18, 2003
It's a handsome film, and made with verve, but too often the tone wobbles and far, far too many of its jokes hit with a splat.
July 18, 2003
The characters are often sketchy at best.
July 18, 2003
Amiable but oddly amateurish.
Original Score: 2.5/4
July 18, 2003
Fun in a guilty pleasure sort of way, but ultimately easily forgotten.
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| Original Score: 2/4
July 18, 2003
An unwieldy mix.
Original Score: 2/4
July 18, 2003
How did it all go so horribly wrong for Alex Proyas in his latest movie, Garage Days?
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| Original Score: 1/5
July 18, 2003
The whole thing seems to fall victim to the failed sitcom syndrome.
July 18, 2003
While Garage Days tries a bit too hard to be cool and slips into a darker place than you might expect, you can tell that everyone here is having a good time.
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| Original Score: B-
July 18, 2003
Director Alex Proyas tries to serve up a good-spirited romp, but by the time this one arrives at its welcome conclusion, you may well have had enough 'lively, eye-popping' filmmaking to last the rest of the year.
Original Score: C
July 18, 2003
The movie has a lot of affection for these scruffy wannabes, and I liked the fact that they were not arrogant, aggressive types, but sort of average, with reasonable values and ambitions.
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| Original Score: 3/4
July 18, 2003
A cheery, cheeky, youthful lark that it trips over its Doc Martens in the first few scenes and never gets up.
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| Original Score: 1/4
July 18, 2003
Absolutely the wussiest rock 'n' roll movie since Rick Springfield's Hard to Hold (1984).
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
July 18, 2003
[A] sweet, delectable rock 'n' roll comedy.
Original Score: 3/5
July 18, 2003
A small-scale Australian musical with an appealing no-name cast whose charms are obscured by directorial self-indulgence.
Original Score: 2/4
July 18, 2003
A mainstream endeavor tricked out as an indie, Garage Days gives us plenty to look at but no reason to care.
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| Original Score: 2/5
July 17, 2003
Alex Proyas directs with high energy and brash innocence and has a grand time putting his technology and technique to work in such a lark.
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| Original Score: C+
July 17, 2003
Strip away the music video-style imagery and eighties-flavored rock soundtrack from Garage Days and you're left with a forced, self-consciously 'wacky' comedy that's more frantic than genuinely funny.
Original Score: 2/4