Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to navigate the perils of high school—avoid the bullies, get the girl, and win a little respect.
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Best movie of this year hands down!
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
To be fair this isn't a bad movie if anything it's actually pretty good but I do think it's a little disappointing. Let me say a few flaws about the movie. 1. There are times where I feel like i'm watching a commerical. 2. Some of the characters are just jerks for no reason other than to be a jerk. 3. Nikki is completely shallow. 4. Seth Green is like a girl in this movie. His hair is girly, he was wearing a headband when Mitchell was telling about Friday, and the scene where he was trying on different clothes. Well watch that scene with that girls wanna have fun song. Now that I covered what I don't like with this movie allow to talk about why I like it. While Mitchell's personality is on par with a Disney prince he's still an enjoyable character for the most part. The skating stunts are very good. The writing can be funny at times. The race at the devil's backbone was a really good race. It was a really intense race and the crashes looked pretty realistic. Although I was wondering why the devil's backbone went everywhere. What, is the garage part of the Devil's Backbone? Is the stairway part of the Devil's Backbone? Even your GPS would give up at this point! Also when Mitchell jump over the car? Unless your wheels are encased with Flubber, you just jumped the shark. Oh, I'm sorry, "Peppy." But don't let my words get in the way of the movie. Also the soundtrack was good. Either way it's 91 minutes of your life you're not getting back. This is one of those films that should be placed in a time capsule. I'm not saying it totally sums up the '90s, but it sums up how the media saw the '90s, and it's just every '90s cliché that existed at the time. In that sense, it's sort of a wonder. I don't know, but if you're looking for good generic stupidity from the decade where the band Hanson were popular, this would probably be your best bet. Take it for what it's worth.
Although certainly the writer of this film owes much of his inspiration to Steinbeck and Depression-era authors, it has more than enough substance to stand on its own. In hindsight, Airborne is more than just a high-flyin' roller-blading epicit is a depiction of the culture wars that exist in our society today. Mitchell represents the coastal "corporate" American coming to the Midwest to pillage its' resources (in this case Cincinnati's finest ladies). Augie is the repressed commoner, perhaps a factory worker, who resents Mitchell at first because of his pedigree and obvious social graces. Wiley is the guy who is striving to make it out his internal strife anyway he can, and shrouds his blatant homosexuality in clever retorts and hooded sweatshirts. Jack is obviously the old farmer, who has seen it all in his day and now is bitter that time is no longer his friend.However, the "Preps" represent something far more imposing than anything Mitchell brings to the table. They obviously represent Communism. If the Cold War taught us anything, it is that Communism can only be contained by a roller-skating race through Cincinnati that ends at the birthplace of democracy, Riverfront Stadium. No wonder Jack Black jumped at the chance to make this ambitious film. The subtle nuances of this cultured classic cannot fully be appreciated in two or three sittings. Nay, the marrow of this film must be sucked dry before you can truly see the vision behind this movie. Step aside Shakespeare...
This is probably one of my favorite all time movies! I have been dying to buy it on DVD. I figured if you can find Aspen Extreme and Hot Dog on DVD, why not this one. But, nope...no such luck. I wish there was a place that you could send comments to about movies that so need to come out on DVD. Anybody know of any such "place" to recommend movies to be released on DVD??? Watching a young Jack Black and Seth Green in a movie together is pretty entertaining and the humor is great! Obviously this was before they were really popular!!! This movie was also made when movies had less killing and violence, and guess what! its still entertaining!!! Anyway, if you ever get a chance to watch this...I highly recommend it!
OK the movie Airborne is really not as bad as people make it out to be. Granted it is not cinematic heaven but for basically the age group that it is made for its pretty good. the movie came out when i was 11 years old so at that time i thought it was a great movie. now if i was to sit and watch it now i probably would think it was a really corny movie. at the time though i thought that shane mcdermott was hot so the movie was very appealing. he really wasn't the best actor but at 11 i wasn't really critiquing the acting, i just watched a lot of movies if i thought the lead guy was hot. if you are over the age of 15 this movie is probably not going to appeal to you but if you are younger then you might like the rollerblading scenes and the fact that there is a cute male lead. also seth green is in it and he can always save a movie with his comedic performance.