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Critics 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.
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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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.
It's a tame, well-rehearsed story that hangs together to ensure Idlewild plays like one incongruous pop promo after another.
The only hope for saving the humorless Idlewild is the atmospheric speak-easy setting, the great dancing numbers and the chill soundtrack.
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.
Its hodgepodge plot only heightens its stale smell
Though not as good as I hoped it would be, it's still an above par musical effort in the end...
1930s black America becomes just a stage for OutKast's vanity project.
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?
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.
This is an interesting blend of old time bootlegging and a concert video. The story is good and the acting is pretty spot on. If you really like Outkast you will dig this flick. For all you others it will entertain for a time.
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