Good enough to see twice

Rating: 9/10 (12 June 2005)

This was an excellent movie, if you're a skateboard enthusiast. I'm not sure how it is if you don't skate, because I'm the former, not the latter. Anyway this was a great film depicting the life of the Zephyr surfers/skaters. Heath Ledger did a great job with Skip Engblom, he reminded me a bit of Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. The film was loosely based on a true story, because many of the dramatic events, were easily recognized as fictional, just to add emotion. Stacy Peralta did a good job writing this, but he seemed to make his character seem innocent, I'm not sure if that's how it really was or not. The filmmakers didn't show Jay Adams as much of a trouble maker, as described in the documentary. I was also left wondering through most of the film, when Jeff Ho was gonna show up, and it didn't seem he did. Craig Stecyck wasn't really portrayed either. I loved the cameos of the original Z-boys, like when the actual Jay Adams, says "Hey Jay!" to the fictional one in the movie. If you've seen the documentary you can see cameos littered throughout the movie. I thought the ending was a bit sudden, it seemed that way in the documentary too. Both the movie and documentary had their emotional parts prior to the ending, and both ended in the Dogbowl. Overall I thought this was a great5 movie.