This movie is crap

That's a pretty funny review. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I am from LA and I know there is definitely that demographic out there (the punky Mexican rockers). It's kind of a counter-culture crowd, one that doesn't fit in the the cholos (gangster culture) or the more traditional cowboy Mexicans. They usually are more passive and artistic, but not always smarter.

I am interested in this film, because I wanted to see how Clark portrayed this microcosm of society. I still will see it despite your bad review, but I do feel that even someone who doesn't know about this culture should be able to appreciate this movie. I agree with you there.

Nate

I agree with you qmsmith, this film is absolutely dreadful. I hope the kids Clark was trying to pass off as actors are not as inarticulate in real life. I just couldn't get over the way they spoke through out the film. I would definitely not recommend this film.

see how retared you are they were not mexicans they were from south america notice they said salvas (elsalvodore) and guatamalan dumb ass

This movie isnt for you
by your use of the word "bloke" i can tell your some sort of white guy who likes to use stupid words like that.
The kids can skate. period.
I'm mexican american and i skate (not very well) but my friends who are also mexican american can skate as good or better than the kids in Wassup Rockers. We also have a band called DO DAMAGE so the whole movie is beleivable. Its praticly like they took our lives and put into film. The kids in the movie act and talk just like us. Though in our group theres more younger kids and We're not all that good at skateing just some but we all still do take skateing adventures sometimes by bus(just like in Wassup Rockers) When we are out in the streets almost every other week somebody be it by car or just walking down the street yell out "WASSUP ROCKERS! so the point is the movie is very beleivable just probly not to someone like you.

Ok: I LOVE this movie, and now here's my opinion.
First, the "waiting for something good to happen" would be the first parameter you shouldn't inflict on a film unless you're setting yourself up to hate the film. And while Clark's previous movies may have not been quite as anti-climatic, there's no reason why all of his films have to culminate into some explosion. As I recall, there are several of those moments in Wassup Rockers. Those moments seem subtle to people of privilege, in most cases, in that privilege often dulls people.
~Critics suck: they're too involved with pointing out mealy-mouthed accusations about the directing of a film, or the actors in it. Sit me down to watch the worst film in all of history, based on whatever standard, and it will still triumph over the critic who is more interested not in the overarching themes, ideas, or emotions but the Directing, the Actors, all of that. I feel like movies, like books, say much more about the people who read them--rather than the one's who write them. Then again, I'm a bit of a defeatist.
I'm sort of amazed that people who liked Bully and Kids DIDN'T enjoy Wassup Rockers.
After I watched the film, I thought about it. Here is what I wrote:
If you liked Kids and Bully, you’ll most likely be engaged as you watch Clark’s third meditation on youth culture, Wassup, Rockers. As the camera follows seven latino boys (we’re not Mexican, they inform a white cop: we’re Guatemalan and Salvi!) from the ghetto in South Central L.A. to the mansions in Beverley Hills, we soon encounter racism manifest in white cops and home-owners who introduce the free-spirited boys to the horrors of economic and social class divisions at the ripe old age of fourteen. Nonetheless, these boys take the abuse in stride and band together in some powerful displays of camaraderie reminiscent of Stand by Me. Yet Vern and Gordy weren’t getting blowjobs from rich gringas. . The boyish chagrin is honest and laugh-out-loud hilarious as Jonathan recalls his first time having sex and Milton remembers the day he was nicknamed Spermball. Don’t forget to leave the subtitles on in this one: as familiar as you’ll find the juvenile exchange of endearing insults you could only give your friends, you don’t want to miss an utterance. Clark enables us to see the converging and diverging of several different worlds, and the injustices of oppression and privilege . I think this film probably also set a record for number of fences jumped in one film. Come to think of it, it is this overwhelming presence of gates, walls, and fences—perhaps under the guise of “security”-- that is the single-most important structure in this film.


P.S. The actors ROCKED

if u watched some of the extras on the dvd u would find that these kids are very much authentic friends, skaters, etc. larry actually met them in LA and told them he wanted to make a movie about them. The basics of the movie are real aside from the celebrities and whatnot.

AMEN. The mexicans, and yes they are so shut the *beep* up anyone who denies it. are ugly, and more likely to steal a skateboard than ride one. The movie is typical Clark Pedophlia thathe tries to pass off as Art. A pedophile in a Directors Shirt.

i didn't like this movie either. i was expecting something along the lines of Clark's previous films to date (Kids, Bully, Ken Park) but it wasn't really on par with them. in general, this movie was quite boring, especially if you enjoyed the hip hop genre in Clark's other movies- the music is dreadful!!