progression from documentary to feature film is excellent

Rating: 10/10 (27 May 2005)

My college showed a prescreening tonight and I was thoroughly entertained. Written by one of the Z-Boys, it was like watching the documentary over again with real actors and better character development. The movie provided all the information about Dog Town and the graffiti culture that evolved there, but focused on the characters of Tony, Jay, and Stacey. Both the acting was superb and the skateboarding created that 70's surfer feel. On a spoiler note, I enjoyed how the movie ended with the three friends back skating together in the Dogbowl after there careers took them in various directions. However, while I understand it was a PG-13 movie, I think the movie lagged by craftily dodging around Jay's drug problems, that eventually landed him in jail. Anyways, it was still a terrific movie.