The Skateboard Kid II (1995)

Take a roller coaster ride full of high octane adventure as 12 year old Sammy takes to the skies. With the help of a magical flying skateboard, Sammy ends up the hottest skateboarder in ... See full summary »

Director:

Andrew Stevens

Writer:

Karen Kelly

Stars:

Dee Wallace, Bruce Davison, Andrew Stevens

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Dee Wallace	...	Lois Curtis (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
Bruce Davison	...	Burt Squires
Andrew Stevens	...	Mr. Ken Fields
Trenton Knight	...	Sammy Curtis
Turhan Bey	...	Zeno, an Angel
Andrea Barber	...	Tilly Curtis
Brooke Stanley	...	Mickey Kincaid (Sammy's friend)
Andrew Keegan	...	Dan Foster
Pablo Irlando	...	Jay Squires
Willy Santos	...	Mike Roads
John Furey	...	Raymond Curtis (Sammy's Dad)
Jonathan Osser	...	Little Sammy Curtis
Johnny Williams	...	Tow Truck Driver
Larry Poindexter	...	Announcer
Kin Shriner	...	Colonel

Storyline

Take a roller coaster ride full of high octane adventure as 12 year old Sammy takes to the skies. With the help of a magical flying skateboard, Sammy ends up the hottest skateboarder in town. But a group of local thrashers don't like the extra competition. They plot to destroy any chance of Sammy competing against them in a local tournament. But they don't have a clue of what they're up against.

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Plot Keywords:

sequel | family relationships | talking skateboard | skateboarding | independent film

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Genres:

Family | Fantasy | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for brief mild language and an adolescent punch in the nose

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 March 1995 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Skateboard Kid 2

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Concorde-New Horizons

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

When Sammy is walking down an alley, an advertisement for the film The Shadow is visible on the side of a public bus.

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Goofs

Obvious height difference between Curtis and his stunt double.

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Connections

Follows The Skateboard Kid (1993)

User Reviews

Pretty poor even by kiddie film standards

It's been years since the Curtis family lost their husband and father Raymond in a flying accident as part of his job as a pilot. His son, Sammy, misses him and works on model planes with his friend Mickey until, that is, he sees some boys on a skateboard and gets himself a new hobby. After hurting himself he is ready to give up when he gets a mysterious package from a man called Zeno – a skateboard with mysterious powers. Sammy enters a skateboard contest using the power of the board; meanwhile his mother struggles to pay the mortgage and faces losing the house.

Not having seen the original Skateboard Kid film I'm not sure if there is a connection between the two or if they are two pretty separate stories doing basically the same thing. Anyway, the plot here sees Sammy getting a board that talks like KITT from a man who could not possibly be relating in any way to his dead father. Needless to say, with the house on the line and big money available for the winner of a skateboarding contest, Sammy steps up – although I won't spoiling it by saying whether or not he wins or learns to find his inner strength! I don't want to judge this by adult standards but, in the same regard, I don't believe that a kids film can be cr*p just because it is aimed at kids. Sadly that is the case here, the film seems to be entirely based on the skateboarding craze and the rest of the plot has been hacked off from a million other films – it really is that generic!

The plot is dumb and it knows it – it never knows when to stop with an idea and to keep good taste, instead it adds bad idea to bad idea and just gets increasingly stupid. This is aimed too high for young children and I doubt very much if 7-11 year olds would accept this as their entertainment for the evening. Baring in mind that this was made in the mid 1990's, the effects are hilariously bad – I know the budget must not have been much but surely it could do better than this rubbish. The skateboarding action is pretty average as well, there are few good moves and most of it is basic stuff. The funniest thing in the film is Sammy skateboarding – his body double is at least 20 and must be about a foot and a half taller than him, the change over between the two is obvious and is so badly handled as to be hilarious.

On top of that, the acting is roundly bad. The kids are all cute 'gee wiz, mom' style performances are felt like nails being dragged over a board for most of the time. Wallace-Stone is suited to this type of film and she is as wholesome and non-sexual as she often is. Support is OK from Davidson but mostly the cast are all pretty poor. Director Stevens gives himself a role and all I can say is that I hope he doesn't still have his hair like that. In fairness it was nice to see him, he has had a very varied career considering that this is on his CV!.

Overall this is a bad film with little to recommend in it. The production values are very low, giving rise to many clunky effects and share lazy errors, the acting is poor even for a kids movie and the story is corny and obvious from the very start. I know this is a kids movie but that does not excuse it being bad. This was aimed at the older kid market of preteens – if you tried to get the 10 year olds I know to watch this rubbish it would spark a riot.