Diagonaldi
Very well executed
Mjeteconer
Just perfect...
filippaberry84
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Laura Valerie Taylor
This is probably one of my favorite movies of all time. I stumbled across Grind during a round of channel-surfing years ago, and even though the movies was halfway over, it was so hilarious that I decided to watch it to the end. After that, I had to see how the story started, so I went hunting for it on Amazon and bought it. To this day, I still pull it out at least three or four times a year when I need a good laugh. The funny parts stay as funny as they were the very first time I saw it, and that's saying a lot, because I've watched it dozens of times over the course of the years since it was a new movie. Even if you don't like skateboarding or know nothing about it, you'll enjoy this movie. And the cameos just make it that much better. This is the movie that first made me fall in love with Adam Brody and Jennifer Morrison, and as a result, I became a big fan of both Once Upon a Time and The O.C.
Python Hyena
Grind (2003): Dir: Casey La Scala / Cast: Mike Vogel, Vince Vieluf, Adam Brody, Jennifer Morrison, Joey Kern: The title is a suppose skateboarding term but it feels like a play on our patience. How many times have we seen some moron leave their keys in their car only to have it stolen by some innocent looking chap? Is it too much for a person to just remove the keys and put them in their pocket? Four skateboarders leave their small town life and follow a skateboard champion in hopes of gaining a sponsor. The story is about as exciting as careening down a flight of stairs and landing on a bed of nails. Casey La Scala does a fine job directing the skateboard action but the characters are hardly interesting nor sympathetic for that matter. Some characters have promise such as ladies man Sweet Lou who seems to have a date for every night of the week. Another character comes from a family of clowns. Alas, they are merely seen as props. Other roles are flat including the hero with big dreams and his best friend who blew his college money so that he could appear in this mess. Cast includes Mike Vogel, Vince Vieluf, Adam Brody, and Jennifer Morrison whom hopefully won't suffer too much because of this charade. Joey Kern plays the idiotic Sweet Lou but he is stuck in a screenplay that is none too sweet. Celebration of skateboarding given a story that grinds into our patience. Score: 3 / 10
Roddenhyzer
It was strangely difficult for me to write this much about "Grind", because everything that could possibly be said about the movie could much easier be condensed to a simple "Road Trip Ripoff". Similar characters, similar premise and similar conflicts, only this time, it's served with a surprisingly arbitrary side dish of skateboarding. I think this is actually one of my bigger complaints about this whole thing: It's not really a skateboarding movie. The skating scenes are periodically shoehorned in there, as if the director tried his hardest to get them over with as quickly and unimpressively as possible. Even the showdown, which is literally just one, long half pipe performance, is filmed in such a ham-handed, not to say *bored* manner that it could be trumped even by the skate scenes in "Most Vertical Primate". I'm hardly exaggerating. Of course my other, much bigger problem with the movie is its humor. I read in the Trivia section that large parts of the dialog were improvised, and yes, that's definitely what much of it feels like. Not the brilliant kind of spontaneity, though, but the kind one might produce when goofing around with friends after a few too many beers, where guttural noises, witless sex jokes and, of course, farts become the epitome of hilarity. I mean, I'm not trying to sound snobbish here, but I believe this rambling humor that consists of little more than random noises and guys hitting each other while shrieking in drunk amusement just doesn't translate very well to the big screen. To put it bluntly, this comedy's comedy isn't funny. It's embarrassing. All of this is quite sad, because one thing the movie definitely does have going for it is a relatively strong cast. The main group consists of adequate actors, and Vince Vieluf in particular is usually a pretty funny, unaffectedly likable guy. However, here he's reduced to a drooling moron, who makes noises all the time and giggles at the stench of his own feces. There are also special appearances by Brian Posehn, Stephen Root, Randy Quaid, Bobcat Goldthwait, various members of the Jackass ensemble, and Tom Green, just to name those I recognized right away. I've seen all of these guys deliver the goods before, but in this one, they're all shadows of themselves. Well, I guess Bam Margera did reasonably well, but maybe that's because he was one of the few characters in the movie who didn't actually try to be funny. He was just there as a celebrity skater.In closing, I'm a bit saddened that this didn't turn out any better. I very much like the basic idea of a road movie comedy about a group of amateur skateboarders trying to get sponsored. It's a crying shame that this concept went to waste with such bland, unmemorable characters and their lobotomized humor.
red_head_rocker56
This was the worst movie that I have ever seen in my whole life. I love skateboarding movies, but this just ranks in one of the worst that I have ever seen. It would be better if there were actual actors. It is all about these punks who want to go on a tour or something (sorry if I got the storyline wrong, Its not like I actually payed attention). And the director squeezed some romance and some "funny" parts. If funny is acting like a total jackass and being so dumb that its not funny anymore, than this movie is for you.But don't worry, they win and get the girls and its all a happy ending. That whats happens in low-budget, retarded movies.
