Deck Dogz

# Posted by Joel Dixon at 15/01/2005 01:09:00

As it way my birthday today (the 24th of such occasions), my girlfriend took me to see Deck Dogz. The story revolves around 3 teenage "Deck Dogz" (skateboarders) trying to get to a skate tournament that will be hosted by Tony Hawk. The kids hope that by showing Tony a Nose-slide underflip to darkslide, they'll be sponsered and taken from their crummy neighbourhood. Getting to the competition is quite a trial with parents, the police and drug pushers trying to stop them.

I had never actually seen a preview for this film - but I had heard there was an Aussie skate film with Tony Hawk appearing, so I thought I'd give it a go. It turns out the film is really just a kids skating movie (al biet with drug and sexual references), and I found myself waiting for the "drama" to finish and the skating to begin. Even if I had have known it was a kids movie, I probably still would have gone (as I love watching great skateboarding - from Tony Hawk, or preferably Rodney Mullen).

The acting was quite poor, the plot a little too far fetched to go along with, and the cutaway visuals of the boy's thoughts were a little too distracting. There were a few laughs to be had though, and I'm happy they knew how to display skating footage, because it was the movie's saving grace.

All in all - I'd say 2 out of 5.

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the man with no name	happy birthday pal! never heard of 'deck dogz' before but for a really good skateboarding movie you might want to check out 'Dogtown and Z-Boys'. hope you have a good one! # Posted - 15/01/2005 07:37:00
joeldixon Posts: 170	Thanks mate, I had a rather enjoyable birthday this year. More so because I just ordered a DVD of Dogtown and Z-Boys from Amazon about 20 minutes ago It looks pretty cool - directed by Stacy Peralta and all - I don't know why I hadn't heard of it before. Thanks! # Posted - 16/01/2005 21:01:00
the man with no name	no worries pal. glad to hear you had a good time. # Posted - 17/01/2005 15:36:00

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Saturday, January 15, 2005

Deck Dogz

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