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Release Date: Dec 13, 2002; Rated: PG-13; Length: 119 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Music; With: Nick Cannon and Zoe Saldana
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A superlative B movie -- funny, sexy, and rousing. It does more than capture the excitement of marching bands; it gets their clockwork beauty as well. The director, Charles Stone III, keeps the tensions flowing -- between the rivals on the field, between rap rhythm and old-school soul. Devon Miles (Nick Cannon), the new snare drummer at A&T University in Atlanta, is a hotshot who has to learn to be a team player. Drumline, in other words, is unabashedly a kind of collegiate Top Drum, but the film is exceedingly well acted, and the on-the-field scenes are photographed with such vibrance that you feel as if you're standing in the nerve center of a glittering funk machine.


Posted Jan 10, 2003
 

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