A decent effort that's lacking in emotional involvement

Rating: 7/10 (31 May 2005)

I have been a skateboarder since the 70's. I lived through the rise of the Dogtown era. This movie details many of the events surrounding Dogtown crew and does so with nice accuracy for the skating, dress and attitude. What is does not do is expand on the emotions of the participants. How did they FEEL about all they were experiencing. The Documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys actually does a better job in this regard. Since there is little emotional engagement with the characters there is really no problem to work out in the third act. The movie seems to end abruptly. I think this movie is a decent effort overall however. Now that writer Stacy Peralta has this autobiographical movie out of his system I have high hopes that his next movie will be more focused on characters and their inner voice rather than showing all the events that made up an era.