For the most part though, the honesty of the performances keeps everything afloat when it could drift into easy sentimentality.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 25, 2011

I enjoyed it in all its cheesiness.

| Apr 29, 2009

For some reason, teasing people about their skin color has become a big theme of brainless black comedies like this. Plus, it unfolds like one long Pepsi ad, with dialogue extolling the cola's virtues in virtually every scene.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 7, 2007

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2006

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 7, 2006

Worthy of a 99-cent rental, if only so you can witness the howlingly awful performance by Wesley Jonathan as a self-appointed roller-disco mega-lord called "Sweetness." Kid had me in tears, I swear.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 10, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2005

Nothing about this film is as cathartic as it tries to make itself because the characters just aren't that absorbing. Instead of tugging your heart, it just spits in your eye.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

This is the 40th "skating movie" to hit the screens since Charlie Chaplin's The Rink (1915). It is neither the best nor the worst of them - skater dudes may think its cool, but 25 years ago there was the much maligned Xanadu with ELO, ONJ and (sigh!) stil

| Dec 6, 2005

A spunky, fun little film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2005

It would take a critic more churlish than this one to sneer and bare chickenlike talons at Roll Bounce

Full Review | Oct 8, 2005

The skating routines are a lot of fun to watch, filled with great choreography and backed by great tunes.

| Oct 6, 2005

Actually one of the year's more pleasant surprises, though it misses being more than that through a combination of length and a sometimes sloppy, meandering screenplay.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 29, 2005

A nice blast of character-driven nostalgia with the best use of Charlie Murphy and Wayne Brady since Chapelle snapped.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2005

Roll Bounce is the season's brightest, happiest surprise.

Full Review | Sep 28, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 28, 2005

The well-blended mix of music, humor, 70s swagger and poignancy allows "Roll Bounce" to stand out. Fun and touching.

| Sep 27, 2005

Did I ever have fun at "Roll Bounce!"

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2005

Bow Wow's movie has no bark and no bite.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 27, 2005