Idlewild (2006)
Idlewild (2006)
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Critic Consensus: 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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Cast
as Rooster
as Angel Davenport
as Trumpy
as Ace
as Zora
as Mother Hopkins
as Spats
as Taffy
as Percy Sr.
as Angel Davenport
as Rose
as Monk
as Percival
as Bobo
as Young Rooster
as Cliff
as Cliff
as Sonny
as Nathan
as Auntie Belle
as Rooster's Daughter No. 1
as Auntie Belle
as Rooster's Daughter No. 2
as Rooster's Daughter No. 3
as Fatts
as Rooster's Daughter
as Photographer
as Voice of the Flask
as Landlady
as Stagehand
as Stagehand
as Stiffed Whore
as Wailing Mourner
as Cap
as Band Director
as GW
as Walter
as Fine Woman
as Eva the Fire Diva
as Honey Bun
as Nan
as Coco
as Bobbi
as Sandi
as China
as Percival (boy)
as Singing Voice of Angel
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Swop Dancer
as Church Dancer
as Church Dancer
as Church Dancer
as Church Dancer
as Church Dancer
as Church Dancer
as Church Dancer
as Church Dancer
as Syncopated Church Orchestra
as Syncopated Church Orchestra
as Syncopated Church Orchestra
as Syncopated Church Orchestra
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Critic Reviews for Idlewild
All Critics (127) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (60) | Rotten (67) | 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.
You don't have to have a stylistic device in every single shot.
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
By jumbling genres, fashions, music and locales, and riddling bullets through much of it, Idlewild ends up feeling disjointed and disquieting.
A series of pretty-good pop videos wrapped around a confusing tale of Chitlin' Circuit striving and conniving.
Comic, dramatic, highly conceptual and all great fun.
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...
Super Reviewer
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?
Super Reviewer
This movie was okay. I think it couldn't make up it's mind about whether to be serious or funny. I mean who sings with Cuckoo clocks? And the talking rooster on the flask? Weird. But I loved the little animated people on the sheets of music.
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