Lords of Dogtown
Based on the 70s, when the sport of skating begins to appear and flourish, Z-boys, a talented and ambitious group of youth, who struggle against gaining fame and celebrity, but incidents come to frustrate them, as they face many challenges and obstacles through their way, but they manage to overcome them all.
17 May 1988, West Los Angeles, California, USA
12 May 1968, Carlsbad, California, USA
28 April 1982, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 November 1979, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
21 January 1974, New York City, New York, USA
16 February 1970, Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
15 October 1957, Los Angeles County, California, USA
March 29, 2011
Lords of Dogtown is an interesting look at the start of an ever increasingly more popular part of American youth culture, but often settles for surface gloss instead of introspection.
August 13, 2007
You don't have to care much about skateboarding (I really don't) to find the movie exhilarating and engaging.
June 03, 2005
Lords of Dogtown isn't a cop-out, but rather an ever-so-slight concession to commercialism, while Dogtown and Z-Boys was, above all else, a love song to the counterculture.
March 01, 2007
A modestly entertaining movie, thanks largely to the efforts of director Catherine Hardwicke and the three leads.
June 03, 2005
It's hard to think of a movie since 1950's Sunset Boulevard that has gotten more dramatic impact out of a pool.
June 03, 2005
Lords of Dogtown stays afloat, largely because many of its actors transcend Hardwicke's heavy-handed storytelling.
June 03, 2005
For someone who was there, not to mention someone who created Dogtown and Z-Boys, Peralta has crafted a script so superficial and simplistic it feels like it was tapped out by a 14-year-old fan.
June 03, 2005
If watching Dogtown and Z-Boys was tantamount to witnessing history itself, watching Lords of Dogtown, which Peralta wrote, feels more like watching a stiff, meticulously choreographed reenactment.
April 15, 2009
As the three friends separate via commercial successes afforded them, "Lords Of Dogtown" becomes a distinctly youthful American anecdote about the nature of friendship and success.
September 26, 2005
...a thoroughly dull piece of work.
June 06, 2005
These kids can act, and they can ride those boards.
April 19, 2007
Dogtown's testosterone fueled, deeply and sadly affectionate excursion into the contact highs and lows of male adolescence, gets it just right and more.
