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DVD : Wassup RockersIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Jonathan Velasquez, Francisco Pedrasa, Milton Velasquez, Yunior Usualdo Panameno, Eddie Velasquez directed by: Larry Clark  List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $13.49 You Save: $1.49 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: FIRST LOOK HOME ENTERTAINMENT EAN: 0634991321723 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: First Look Pictures Manufacturer: First Look Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: First Look Pictures Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 21, 2006 Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: First Look Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 2005 Sales Rank: 15789 MPN: FLPD32172D Related Items: Editorial Review: Description: Ten years after KIDS, Larry Clark tackles the controversial subject of teens and race in LA, aiming his lens on an unlikely crew of Latino skate punk kids from the ghetto neighborhood of South Central who just want to be themselves. When Jonathan, Kico, Eddie, Spermball, Porky, Louie and Carlos take an impromptu skating trip to Beverly Hills one day, they get into trouble with the cops, enjoy sexual encounters with rich white girls, and face off against hostile boyfriends and suspicious neighbors. It takes all of their strength and cunning to make their way back home to the (relative) safety of South Central. Overflowing with tenderness and sly humor, WASSUP ROCKERS is another bold vision of youth under fire from the incomparable Larry Clark. Amazon.com: Awkward title aside, Wassup Rockers is Larry Clark on good vibes. For his fifth feature, the photographer-turned-filmmaker turns his lens towards a close-knit band of Latino teens. They dress like the Ramones (long hair, tight jeans) and crank out a brand of hardcore that suggests early Suicidal Tendencies--mostly, they live to surf the sidewalks of LA. The central rocker is 15-year-old Jonathan (Jonathan Velasquez, rough but charming). He's joined by Milton, Kico, Eddie, Porky, Louie, and Carlos (like Velasquez, all non-professionals). As unlikely as it may sound, the storyline parallels The Swimmer and The Warriors in that their goal is to get from one end of town to the other, i.e. from Beverly Hills to South Central. (The obstacles have changed, but the objective remains the same.) Critics have painted Wassup Rockers as lighter than previous Clark pictures, and they’ve got a point, but it's a relative term. The movie does, after all, open with a murder, and the MPAA slapped it with an R for pervasive language and sexual content. Well, he may not come from their world, but Clark couldn't be more sympathetic towards his protagonists. If anything, he's too hard on the Caucasian characters, many of whom are fairly reprehensible--one of the film's major missteps. Of course, there are also a few obligatory shots of bare-chested boys (a Clark trademark), but his gaze is less voyeuristic than before. For the most part, Wassup Rockers is as exhilarating and, yes, life affirming as cinema can get. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good idea, bad actingI like Larry Clark's idea and the story line, but it was painful to watch these kids "act". Rating:  - Whatever...There are exactly two funny reasons to fast forward thru the teen-boy crazed director's latest Wassup Rockers... and both involve the B-movie/cartoon style deaths of a couple of icky-campy-celebs in tacky-bev-hills. Just don't expect much else, certainly none in the area of the "usual". Mr. Clark should put that "artistic" horndog energy towards a 21Cen film that OUT does the original Penthouse-produced Caligula...god knows the news is full of stories about teen wolfpacks wrecking havok & partying ... Read More Rating:  - much more interesting than you might expecti expected to enjoy this only as an anthropology lesson, but it's much better than that. the non-actors have enough room to be themselves and demonstrate a relaxed charm that still works to keep one's interest in what at first seems a plotless romp -- which tightens up and really holds one's interest, even if this film is still basically a romp. i wouldn't usually particularly think i would want to spend 90 minutes or so in the company of teenagers, but the film surprised and really won me over. Rating:  - about DVDfilm/movie Wassup Rockers..............The film basically talk about a group of bad tennager that cause bad things to happen (died of 2 person) and the story end after they return home. These teenagers are board skaters and these actors did well in this film by showing their bad behaviour as a tennager but the story of the trouble is more story based rather than the kind of violent reaction which a bad tennager may have which include fighting etc etc. Larry Clark is been praised on the first portion of the film that show more toweards reaction ... Read More Rating: - Anothing fine film from Larry ClarkThis movie is different than previous Clark efforts, mainly in that it's tame enough for an R rating. There's no on-screen sex, nor adolescent nudity, and the profanity is nothing out of the ordinary. I'm saying this up front because if one surveys, say, rottentomatoes.com reviews, you would think Clark is nothing short of a felon! Idiotic mainstream reviewers continue to misrepresent Clark's work through their own inability to understand subtlety and their blindness to artistic intent. What would these reviewers ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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