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	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Roll Bounce (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The producers of "Roll Bounce," Robert Teitel and George Tillman Jr., also made "Soul Food," "Men of Honor" (with Cuba Gooding as the first fl Navy diver), "Barbershop" and its spin-offs, and "Beauty Shop." Some of the movies are better than others, but all of them have good hearts.
		"Roll Bounce," a nostalgic memory of disco roller-dancing in the late 1970s, has warm starring performances from Bow Wow (formerly Lil Bow Wow) and Chi McBride, who are funny, lovable and sometimes touching.
		"Roll Bounce" is not a great film, but it does a good job of doing exactly what it intends: Showing a summer in the lives of ordinary teenagers and their parents, and remembering the roller disco craze that preceded hip hop.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050922/REVIEWS/50921004/1023 (833 words)

	Drum Rudiment: Multiple Bounce Roll
		In order to play the multiple bounce roll with a high quality of sound, speed is not a determining factor, so we have elected to skip the "open-close-open" approach in favor of one that has a more 'real-world' application.
		On the multiple bounce roll, it is important that the student have the balance point of the stick organized first.
		I encourage my students to use the second finger of each hand (the middle finger) to help with multiple bounce execution, thereby keeping the fulcrum consistent, and creating the bounces with that second finger.
	www.vicfirth.com /education/rudiments/04multiplebounceroll.html (469 words)

	'Roll Bounce' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The story begins when a ghetto rink is closed and a handful of urban skaters are forced to roll uptown where the threads are glitzier, the girls are more sophisticated and the moves are harder to do without getting a face full of hardwood.
		In "Roll Bounce," Bow Wow plays X, a well-intentioned teen who'd love to live to skate, but lives instead with his conservative widower father and impressionable younger sister.
		Produced by and mostly for African-Americans, "Roll Bounce" includes some snide racial remarks that would be Hollywood taboo if the skin tones were reversed.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05266/576211.stm (518 words)

	"Roll Bounce" - Movie Review by Sean Kernan
		The family drama is a tad bit cheesy in a movie as gregarious and loose as Roll Bounce and the father son tension only serves to weigh the film down when it should roll with the skating.
		When Roll Bounce is in its retro groove with its killer soundtrack of seventies classics, Bee Gees, Chic, Kool and The Gang and such, it's an enjoyable little throwback.
		Roll Bounce does manage to find entertaining moments that showcase these young actors' talent for having a good time.
	www.smart-popcorn.com /reviews/986 (849 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Roll Bounce" movie review (2005) "Roll Bounce" review, Malcolm D. Lee, Bow Wow, Khleo Thomas, Meagan Good
		If the roller-disco nostalgia comedy "Roll Bounce" didn't have Malcolm D. Lee in the director's chair, it would be downright unwatchable.
		In "Roll Bounce," he makes up for the shopworn, thoroughly predictable source material by punching up the comedy and hiring talented young stars to flesh out the stock characters.
		So while "Roll Bounce" may have one of the most shopworn, cliché-riddled, minimal-effort scripts of 2005, the end result is an entertaining Saturday matinee that's hard not to like.
	www.splicedonline.com /05reviews/rollbounce.html (560 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Roll Bounce' glides back to the disco skating craze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Either way, Roll Bounce's look-back at that fleeting phenomenon is surprisingly easy to take.
		Bounce's protagonist ("X") is played by 18-year-old rapper Bow Wow, formerly known as Lil' Bow Wow (hey, time marches on).
		He's a handsome hook on which to hang a movie, though through no fault of his own (nor of Chi McBride as his dad), the youngster is a key figure in an albatross subplot that nearly sinks it.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2005-09-22-roll-bounce-review_x.htm (522 words)

	calendarlive.com: CRITIC'S CHOICE - 'Roll Bounce'
		At the same time, "Roll Bounce" has plenty of affectionate humor to balance some serious heart-tugging.
		When the young people of "Roll Bounce" hit the rink with all their nifty moves, "Saturday Night Fever" with John Travolta's disco king immediately comes to mind, and this film has much the same ingredients and appeal of the 1977 classic.
		"Roll Bounce" has a large cast, and along with Smollett, other vivid presences include Kellita Smith as her mother, Meagan Good as the girl trying to connect with the troubled X, and Mike Epps and Charlie Murphy as a pair of uproariously comical garbage collectors.
	www.calendarlive.com /printedition/calendar/cl-et-roll23sep23,0,7485154.story (597 words)

	Roll Bounce
		23, 2005 12:00 AM If it weren't for the street cred of rapper Bow Wow, Roll Bounce, a movie about roller-skatin' teens in the '70s, would be as nauseating as 1979's spandex and sequin-fest, Roller Boogie.
		It's a semi-squeaky clean film, OK for the family, but still has a bit of edge by way of a Degrassi-like melodramatic story about X coping with the absence of his mother.
		And there are occasional eye-rolling lines: "You and me, let's have a skate-off, winner takes all!" the north-side skate king sneers to X. Roll Bounce is a soulful blip for a Saturday afternoon, but take note.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0923rollbounce0923.html (342 words)

	Roll Bounce - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		Should Roll Bounce go down as the most retro film of 2005, it would not be only on account of its 1970s outfits, its vivid re-creations of the disco era and fads such as "roller disco" or its jam-packed soundtrack of songs such as Rock the Boat, Boogie Fever and Kung-fu Fighting.
		Roll Bounce's depictions of adolescence, survival in the big city and domestic disharmony look more like The Cosby Show than Saturday Night Fever.
		Roll Bounce is a formula story about a group of young boys from the south side who cross town to the Sweetwater Roller Rink when their neighbourhood rink closes.
	www.smh.com.au /news/film-reviews/roll-bounce/2005/12/07/1133829655828.html (427 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Roll Bounce (2005)
		And then there are the skating scenes, of course, which are cleverly shot to show off the moves and hide the stunt doubles, and they play very well, accompanied by the disco beats on the soundtrack.
		Roll Bounce is a little uneven, and probably too long, but its heart is in the right place.
		Most of the running time is used up on the actors talking about their characters and explaining the plot, but the end does cover the training and extra effort that went into the skating scenes.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=8199 (1587 words)

	Amazon.com: Roll Bounce - Full Screen: DVD: Wayne Brady,Nick Cannon,Mike Epps,Rick Gonzalez,Meagan Good,Busisiwe ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rather than building inexorably to the big contest, Roll Bounce takes time to explore its world--the camaraderie of X and his pals, the struggles of his father (Chi McBride, I, Robot) to find a job--without wallowing pointlessly in the ephemera of the '70s.
		Roll Bounce isn't going to change the history of cinema or is even particularly original, but it is enormously likable and heartfelt.
		It is terribly unfortunate that Roll Bounce came and went to the theater without much notice.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000BTITFS?v=glance (2043 words)

	Roll Bounce (2005)
		They take their rolling 'tude to a new rink, Sweetwater Roller Rink, but life's a lot different in the new venue.
		It is to those halcyon days that Malcolm D. Lee's Roll Bounce returns to for a sweet and surprisingly innocent—if overlong—coming-of-age comedy-drama.
		He and his dad don't really communicate, and X can't bring himself to be open with Naomi (Meagan Good), the girl he thinks is dreamy.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=141166&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (649 words)

	Roll Bounce (2005): Reviews
		Bow Wow plays the skate-dance hero in a way that's never too cool to hide what an avid achiever the kid is, and he and his buddies converse in a fiendishly alert middle-class trash talk that keeps Roll Bounce jumping.
		Roll Bounce, a nostalgic memory of disco roller-dancing in the late 1970s, has warm starring performances from Bow Wow and Chi McBride, who are funny, lovable and sometimes touching.
		A drowsy comedy about a handful of kids grooving and roller-skating, Roll Bounce has heart and good vibes but little else to recommend it.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/rollbounce (908 words)

	The DVD Clinic Movie Review of Roll Bounce
		ROLL BOUNCE brings this bygone era back into style with some fresh faces and attitude.
		Forward Motion: The Making of Roll Bounce: A bit more what I’m used to, this is an EPK that outlines a few bits of the production.
		I found ROLL BOUNCE to be light-hearted and fun that exuded the feel of the 70s.
	www.joblo.com /reviews.php?mode=joblo_dvds&id=1079 (790 words)

	Roll Bounce \| The A.V. Club
		Set in Chicago in the summer of 1978 and featuring a credits-to-credits soundtrack of '70s songs, the roller-skating comedy Roll Bounce could almost pass for a product of the era it depicts if it weren't for all the contemporary faces.
		Roll Bounce smartly recognizes that winning a big roller-skating contest won't solve any of this.
		In short, it's a sneak preview of adulthood, and Roll Bounce nicely balances its pressures with the lazy pleasures of childhood (and a fair amount of "your mama" jokes).
	www.avclub.com /content/node/40903 (473 words)

	Roll Bounce
		Roll Bounce dazzles us with a classic late 1970's feel, but this coming of age film could have been more than just a spin around the roller rink.
		"Roll Bounce puts fresh spins on both the traditional family drama and a distinctive era of American pop culture.
		"Roll Bounce wants to be everything, but the mish mash of styles and tones yields a movie that falls short of its potential."
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/roll_bounce (1197 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Roll Bounce
		In Roll Bounce, Malcolm D. Lee’s comedy-drama set in 1978 Chicago, five friends find another place to skate after their neighborhood spot closes, but immediately get humiliated by the rink’s hero and his band of well-dressed cronies.
		For all of Xavier’s woes (distant father, dead mother), Roll Bounce doesn’t stir any feelings, not for teenagers young and old, and especially not for anyone who grew up in the 1970s.
		Over the last three months, the public was treated to an irrelevant update of The Honeymooners that didn’t appeal to the show’s die hard fans or to anyone under the age of 45.
	filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/0/62955A810EC0D3C0882570860054B306?OpenDocument (722 words)

	Roll Bounce review, Roll Bounce DVD review
		Both films are about ridiculous fads in the 70’s (disco and roller disco, respectively), and rely on their coming-of-age male protagonists to carry the emotional load of the film.
		Director Malcolm D. Lee has to know that his pint-sized star Bow Wow can’t carry the film on his own, but it doesn’t really matter since the real allure of the picture comes from the mind-blowing skate choreography to the sweet and funky tunes of the soul-infused soundtrack.
		The "Roll Bounce" DVD offers quite a bit of special features on the single-disc release including three audio commentaries featuring 1) director Malcolm D. Lee, 2) stars Bow Wow and Mike Epps, and 3) producers Norman Vance Jr.
	www.bullz-eye.com /mguide/reviews_2005/roll_bounce.htm (635 words)

	Roll Bounce (2005): Bow Wow, Chi McBride, Mike Epps, Wesley Jonathan - PopMatters Film Review
		But still, Roll Bounce is pleasant beyond expectations, in large part due to an affecting performance by Snoop's erstwhile gimmicky protégé and Ciara's current boyfriend: Nick Cannon, look out.
		X and his buddies -- Mixed Mike (Khleo Thomas), Naps (Rick Gonzalez), Boo (Marcus T. Paulk), and Junior (Brandon T. Jackson) -- are introduced as they learn their favorite neighborhood rink is closed and they have to head across town, at Sweetwater Rink.
		While Roll Bounce means to be feel-good, its formulaic route to that end is often tedious.
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/r/roll-bounce-2005.shtml (856 words)

	Roll Bounce - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Roll Bounce
		Directed by Spike's cousin Malcolm D. Lee (Undercover Brother), Roll Bounce is one of those movies that gets a couple of things exactly right — and if you're in the right mood, those couple of things redeem much of what the movie gets wrong.
		X and his Cosby-kid pals (Brandon T. Jackson, Rick Gonzalez, Marcus T. Paulk, and Khleo Thomas) dodge water balloons, spar with a tomboy (Jurnee Smollett), and work kung-fu moves into their skate routines as they compete against a team of polyester-clad roller-thugs led by a guy named "Sweeetness" (Wesley Jonathan).
		Incredibly, Lee doesn't play any of this for irony points — and at its best, Roll Bounce offers a sweet, nostalgic, upbeat take on inner-city life that Fat Albert (2004) utterly missed.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/r/rollbounce.q.shtml (318 words)

	Metromix. Movie review: 'Roll Bounce'
		By contemporary standards, "Roll Bounce" is a teen movie of unusually sweet disposition, set in 1978 Chicago among a group of South Side kids who love to roller skate.
		It harkens back to a time when everybody was kung fu fighting, or at least skating to a song about it, and Asteroids shone as the pinnacle of video gaming.
		The tone, buoyant without being brainless, is such that you wonder if "Roll Bounce" wasn't in fact filmed in 1978, not just set in it.
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /movies/mmx-050923-movies-review-roll,0,4077220.story?coll=mmx-home_features (603 words)

	Roll Bounce -- Newsday.com
		God knows what's next, but in "Roll Bounce," Malcolm D. Lee pays such affectionate homage to skating and '70s B-movies that you almost think they were, well, Peter Frampton or something.
		Funny without trying, but maudlin when it tries to be heartfelt, "Roll Bounce" has also become part of the Katrina relief effort: According to the distributor, Fox Searchlight, 10 percent of the opening weekend box office proceeds will be donated to Operation USA for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief.
		So if you were on the fence about seeing "Roll Bounce," there's your push.
	www.newsday.com /entertainment/movies/ny-etmovie4436733sep23,0,5063774.story?coll=ny-moviereview-headlines (500 words)

	DVDActive - News - Releases - Roll Bounce (UK - DVD R2)
		Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced the release of Roll Bounce for the 22nd of October, priced at around £15.99.
		The disc will feature an anamorphic widescreen transfer, Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, a Bow Wow profile, a 'Forward Motion: The making of Roll Bounce' featurette, deleted scenes and a gag reel.
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	www.dvdactive.com /news/releases/roll-bounce2.html (125 words)

	Big Pink Cookie » Roll Bounce!
		I rented “Roll Bounce” for $1 today at McDonald’s and I’m going to watch it tonight.
		UPDATE: It was later than I thought and Mike was too tired (he kept falling asleep!) so Roll Bounce will be our Saturday movie instead.
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	www.bigpinkcookie.com /2005/12/31/roll-bounce (436 words)

	NilBlogette: ROLL BOUNCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As I told nilblog when we left the theater, had ROLL BOUNCE come out in the 80s, the decade in which I went to the skating rink every year on my birthday, I may have pursued skating as a career instead of film.
		Thus, the only real preparation I had for the rocking world of choreographed skating was the “Roller Disco” episode of “That 70’s Show”, but it ain’t got nuthin’ on ROLL BOUNCE’s funky moves.
		No idea what he was seeing, but I hope it was ROLL BOUNCE.
	nilblog.typepad.com /nilblogette/2005/09/roll_bounce.html (698 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Roll Bounce
		ndercover Brother director Malcolm D. Lee takes another trip down memory lane with Roll Bounce, a nostalgic paean to '70s-era youthfulness and the short-lived fad of roller disco that coasts by on an amiable soul-funk groove.
		According to Roll Bounce, miscegenation was not prone to elicit raised eyebrows in either the white or African-American community in 1978, a harmonious view of the era that's in keeping with the film's positive, upbeat attitude towards adolescent growing pains.
		But Lee's is not a tween-oriented sociological study so much as a frothy blend of sports drama clichés and Sixteen Candles-esque angst with a knack for authentic period detail (like X having to be home before the street lamps are fully lit).
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1805 (214 words)

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