Roll Bounce (2005)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Malcolm D. Lee

Writer (WGA):

Norman Vance Jr. (written by)

Release Date:

23 September 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance

Plot:

1970s roller-skate jams fuel this coming-of-age comedy, as X and his friends, who rule their local rink...

Plot Keywords:

Competition | 1970s | Roller Skates | Father Son Relationship | Paperboy

Awards:

2 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Bow Wow	...	Xavier 'X' Smith
Chi McBride	...	Curtis Smith
Meagan Good	...	Naomi Phillips
Wesley Jonathan	...	Sweetness
Marcus T. Paulk	...	Boo
Rick Gonzalez	...	Naps
Jurnee Smollett	...	Tori
Brandon T. Jackson	...	Junior
Khleo Thomas	...	Mixed Mike
Kellita Smith	...	Vivian
Mike Epps	...	Byron
Charles Q. Murphy	...	Victor (as Charlie Murphy)
Nick Cannon	...	Bernard
Paul Wesley	...	Troy
Daniel Yabut	...	Roy

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language and some crude humor.

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

UK:PG | Brazil:18 | Australia:PG | Singapore:NC-16 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M (DVD rating) | Iceland:L | South Korea:12 | Netherlands:6 | Canada:G (Québec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | France:U | USA:PG-13 (certificate #41369)

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

State Street Pictures

Trivia:

Ten percent of the movie's opening weekend gross was donated to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the scene where X and his little sister are in the bed she clearly calls him Ezekiel and not Xavior.

Quotes:

Junior: In the immortal words of my cousin, Rudy Rambo III, from the East Side...
Mixed Mike: Hey, Rudy Rambo was a pimp!
Junior: Man, pimps got advice, too. Look, stop discriminating on the black man. In the immortal words of my cousin, Rudy Rambo III, from the East Side, there's three types of people in this world - people who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who get Pimp Slapped for not having Rudy Rambo's money on time.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Dance Flick (2009)

Soundtrack:

Fire

Exactly as Advertised!

We saw Roll Bounce this afternoon. It was exactly what I expected it to be. A predictable, exaggerated, silly, corny, inauthentic 70's nostalgia-fest.

We loved it! Seriously, it's probably in our top five for the year thus far. It was so much fun. Even the dramatic, serious moments were good and not laughable. My husband said afterwards he was thinking how funny it was that an emotional scene in an otherwise fluffy, insubstantial feel-good movie could evoke more feeling in him than all two hours of The Constant Gardener, for example.

Anyhow, we've both been a good mood ever since, we just had a great time at the movies. It was nice to see a good, clean, wholesome family movie that doesn't suck.