Lords Of Dogtown on DVD (2004)

Mina Murray from Manchester, England , 24/09/2005

I loved this film! It follows the passions and dreams of a group of boys in a skateboard team. When they win competions and get signed by the big names,friendships and the reasons they started in the first place are threatened. Don't see this if your only interested in Jonny Knoxville or Tony Hawks though cause they only have cameos.I left the cinema with a sudden urge to go and buy a skateboard. This film is cool.

  12 out of 15 people found this review helpful

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yolanda palmer-melin from London, UK , 12/02/2006

Excellent film, strongly recommended. Superbly acted by the three leads, especially Emile Hirsch as Jay Adams. An absolute must see for anyone with a passion for skating and the 70's. It is also accompanied by a great soundtrack.

Also a must see is the documentary (Dogtown and Z Boys). I would recommend to watch it first if you are not familiarized with the story.

  7 out of 7 people found this review helpful

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Paul Hird from Nottingham , 07/02/2006

Not a bad film. I love Dog Town and the Z-Boys and was expecting this to be hard to sit through all jazzed up by Hollywood but came away nicely surprised.

I love the way they show Jay Adams, obviously going down the wrong road while Stacy and Tony Alva made the cash, but still showed him to be skating, not, like in the documentary, a lazy drug head who just quit skating and wasted his life.

He didnt do as well as the others, but he kept kicking ass and made a few bucks on the way.

The film could have been so much better had the film company not been bothered about ratings and reaching a bigger audience, but that aside, it's well worth watching.

  6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

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scott1982 from essex , 19/01/2006

I really enjoyed this film, especially having watched the documentary. Very entertaining. Has an excellent soundtracck too! And brilliant camera work, and most of all a good story.

  6 out of 7 people found this review helpful

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ricky170 from South Yorkshire , 01/02/2006

I watched this and was impressed with the attention to detail.

If you watch the documentary that this film is based on 'Dog town & Z Boys' you will see what I mean.

Good Film, worth watching even if you don’t like skate boarding

  3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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Padger from Northampton , 26/01/2006

I’m a 52 year old local government administrator with virtually no interest in skateboarding, and I tend to be a little intolerant of my 12 year old son’s liking for the Extreme Sports Channel. This film, about the birth of the modern sport of skateboarding, was definitely not designed for the likes of me. Yet I found it held my attention from start to finish and I would recommend it to anyone who knows next to nothing about skateboarding (or skating, as my son tells me I should call it, because skating is called blading). It’s entertaining and also technically brilliant, as demonstrated in the fascinating “making of” extra item. Part of the film’s strength lies in the fact that some of the key real life people portrayed in the film were directly involved in the film’s making.

Now just because I liked it, you kids out there shouldn’t go thinking you’ll hate it. Just do as I tell you and put it on your list now!

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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