Idlewild (2006)

3/5

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08/07/08

1.5/4

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07/14/07

2.5/4

Though not as good as I hoped it would be, it's still an above par musical effort in the end...

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07/11/07

N/A

1930s black America becomes just a stage for OutKast's vanity project.

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03/15/07

N/A

Neither fish nor fowl. Nor foul, either, though not great--and ultimately, more idle than wild.

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03/01/07

2/4

In spite of several inspired moments where it exhibits some genuine promise, this desperate attempt to be all things to all people ends up sabotaging any potential to make a memorable contribution to the annals of cinema.

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02/08/07

3/4

The music, which sounds like a collaboration between Cab Calloway and Run DMC, keeps the story flowing.

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12/13/06

C-

Idlewild overflows with inventiveness and random weirdness that sort of make it a must-see even if it isn't a particularly good film.

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12/04/06

N/A

Outside of the musical numbers, Idlewild is nothing more than an old-fashioned crime melodrama, a generic jumble of Prohibition-era gangsters and aspiring musicians - any one storyline instantly recognizable from a dozen other films.

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11/20/06

N/A

For a band whose music is suffused with such delicate irony, you’d expect at the very least for there to be a few laughs along the way? There are none. Nothing. Zero.

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10/14/06

1/5

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10/14/06

3/5

Fans happy to luxuriate in its artistic indulgence, however, will be swept up in the weird, random, fantastic OutKastness of it all.

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10/06/06

3/5

You have to hand it to those OutKast fellas -- even when they make a mess, they do it with style.

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09/29/06

3/4

an eccentric, audacious musical that, like "Moulin Rouge," blends backstage drama, tragic romance and flights of fantasy into a story that bravely jumps from genre to genre and from era to era.

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09/22/06

B+

An imaginatively rendered and ultimately touching expression of the collision of creativity and responsibility, and the former bursting through the constraints of a small town outlook of diminished expectation.

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09/17/06

3/5

You'll probably come to Idlewild for the musical excitement, but you may just find yourself leaving with a surprisingly bittersweet lump in your throat.

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09/05/06

B

Structurally all over the place but its infectious rhythms more than make up for narrative deficiencies.

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09/04/06

2/5

Coming from a band as creative as OutKast, this film is a big letdown, because it lacks any creativity of its own.

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09/03/06