When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too – as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field.
The film may be shameless self-promotion and navel-gazing (it's sponsored by Vans), but the interviews are so candid and introspective that it's worthwhile.
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Bruce DeMara
RTToronto StarNov 29, 2012
An exhaustive - no, make that exhausting - look at a team of young skateboarders ...
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Betsy Sharkey
RTLos Angeles TimesNov 8, 2012
Like a high school reunion, filled with affectionate memories of an earlier, more innocent, time.
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Mike Scott
RTTimes-PicayuneJan 11, 2013
Aside from a lack of journalistic integrity, it's a well-assembled film, one that capitalizes on the charisma of its interview subjects.