Directed by Ty Evans and Spike Jonze it's an almost exclusively street-based affair that promotes
Girl and
Chocolate. It has some high profile skaters (e.g. Carroll; Koston; McCrank) and some even more high profile music (e.g. Bowie; Björk; Joy Division), but it's not just skating: there are skits and they get on my tits. Some even have post-production FX trickery. Digitally removing boards is puerile but admittedly harmless because it's obvious, but digitally removing ramps is an arguably different matter. The 'joke' is introduced early and even evident in the film's title, but it's still technically green-screen trickery. If it could be re-edited to exclude all the nonsense, including the pointless Owen Wilson scene, then it'd be a much more enjoyable work, for me at least.
3 wheels in water out of 5
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