 Grind, a movie about skateboarding, so directly targets skateboarders that unless you're one of them, you may be best advised to wait until an edition comes out with subtitles, some reviewers warn. Grind itself is part of the skateboarders' lingo, but Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel observes that the movie also includes such lines as "You really tweaked that method to fakie, bro." Grind does receive several so-so-to-positive reviews, Typical is Wesley Morris's in the Boston Globe, who concludes that what Grind "lacks in cinematic skill, it makes up for in heart." But most of them read like Jan Stuart's in Newsday: "Innocuous teen comedies like Grind rarely invite the sort of invectives saved up for an expensive piece of star hubris like Gigli, since no one has expectations for them anyway,"she writes. "But let there be no doubt about it, Grind is guaranteed to make your teeth gnash." And Jennie Puner in the Toronto Globe and Mail decides to invoke a line that she heard uttered by one moviegoer who, as he left the theater, shouted out, "This film is garbage." |
