Movie Review

Wassup Rockers (2006)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Jul 05, 2006

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

C+

Details Limited Release: Jun 23, 2006; Rated: R; Length: 111 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Francisco Pedrasa and Jonathan Velasquez

$90210-OH South Central L.A. skate-punkers make love and class war in \'\'Rockers\'\'$

90210-OH South Central L.A. skate-punkers make love and class war in ''Rockers''

Larry Clark tries to recycle the skate-punk infamy of Kids, this time with a cast of Hispanic teens from South Central L.A., but Wassup Rockers is a lackadaisical odyssey. Clark does find a cocky sweetness in their camaraderie, but then he sets his kids loose in the glitz of Beverly Hills, where they confront the faces of white corruption: racist cops, apple-cheeked daddy's girls, an Eastwoodesque movie star who shoots first and asks questions...never. The sexy, scruffy, neo-Warriors pageantry of ghetto teen hunger would have been a lot more vital if Clark didn't have such a class-war chip on his shoulder.

Originally posted Jul 05, 2006 Published in issue #886 Jul 14, 2006 Order article reprints

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