Roll Bounce (2005)

Very best movie i ever watch

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

I loved this movie. I didn't think I would but I found myself glued to the set. Bow Wow did a good job and the young cast of guys as his friends were funny. I also love the to girls. The character Tori reminds me of a girl from school was was an ugly duckling on minute then the next she's a hottie. Megan Good is just AMAZINGLY beautiful. Sweetness was SOOOOOO funny. Just the way that character was written just was awesome. I also loved his group that rolled with him. They were funny as well. Mike Epps and Charlie Murphy providing the comic relief was a great touch. All in all it was well worth the watch and I just might rewatch again one day.It wasn't the greatest thing ever but it wasn't as bad as most people have said it was.

I stumbled on this movie by accident in a hotel room. I started watching in the mirror while shaving, then got interested. Turned out to be a good flick. A bit unrealistic (I can't see kids of today actually getting interested in roller skating at this level), but a good movie with a good guy/bad guy theme, with none of the usual overboard and unnecessary violence.It had a good combination of comedy, father/son turmoil, love interest, a good guy to root for, a bad (but likable) guy to 'boo', and basically wholesome content that anyone could take their kids to see. I liked it!

I also enjoyed this movie because it brought back good memories. In 1978 I was 17 and the thing to do on Sunday nights was going to the skating rink. Mama bought me skates so I wouldn't have to rent and I wanted to learn to do roller disco. I thought I was getting pretty good and while skating to "Good Times" I tried a move that I shouldn't have and broke my left leg. After it healed I went back to the rink but didn't try anymore fancy moves. I doubt I still have the skills and most of the rinks here are not a very good spot for kids. When my daughter was a teen, I took her and some friends to a rink and there was more dancing in bare feet than skating. Kids today don't know the fun they missed in "the old days." I also liked the soundtrack from the movie and am looking for one to play and drive my daughter crazy! She HATES disco!

"Roll Bounce" is a very good movie. The only bad thing about the movie is the vulgar hip-hop language but it is acceptable because most of these roller skating maniacs in the flick were teenagers who were starting to adore the world of what would be called hip-hop--which was more than just a dance form---it had its own type of style and language. The rest of the movie was pleasing."Roll Bounce" definitely has a taste of "Saturday Night Fever" with some of not only the great disco hits in its soundtrack, but also some of the 1970's R and B hits at the time. The song "Barracuda" is also played---but it has absolutely nothing to do with the "Barracuda Hideout" depicted in "Fever."I was a partial fan of the roller-skating-disco craze in the 1980s. There used to be a club in Chicago called "The Loop Roller Disco" near Halsted and 95th St. I also went to a similar roller rink in Markham, IL. I remember almost all of the stuff "Roll Bounce" gives to the viewer as I experienced for myself in the roller rink in person--the moving colorful lights in the rink area, a deejay in a low-sounding voice giving all of the skaters something new to do (for example, "skate backwards") and all of the skaters skating around counterclockwise (almost always) in their attempt to create clean, good fun. Both clubs, however, went out of business in the mid-1980s when the disco craze completely fizzled out for other sub-genres of pop and rock music that were waiting to fill the void. A few dialogue sequences in "Roll Bounce" talk about something about the South Side of Chicago--once I heard them, I was hooked to reminisince a variation of the disco dance craze that was short-lived---even if it (the dance) was on roller skates and not platform shoes."Roll Bounce" also has a taste of the flicks "Beat Street" and even "Flashdance" because some of the roller skaters added some break dancing skills on the wooden rink on their skates. Moreover, "Roll Bounce" is more vivacious than "Beat Street" because "Roll Bounce" has more dance sequences.