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Grind

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 24 critic reviews
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Based on 30 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Ralph Sall
Directed by: Casey La Scala
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 15, 2003
DVD: January 27, 2004
Running Time: 105 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for crude humor, sexual content and language
Starring Mike Vogel, Vince Vieluf, Adam Brody, Joey Kern, Jennifer Morrison, and Jason London
While the rest of his high school graduating class is heading to the same old grind of college, skateboarder Eric Rivers (Vogel) and his best friends, Dustin (Brody), a goal-oriented workaholic, and misfit slacker Matt (Vieluf) have one last summer roadtrip together to follow their dream of getting noticed by the professional skateboarding world - and getting paid to skate. (Warner Bros.)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
What Grind lacks in cinematic skill, it makes up for in heart, which is what most dudes-in-arms flicks are missing. Given the option of spending eternity with these gentlemen or the boys of ''American Pie,'' I'd choose the lads of Grind.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
Grind does evince a true love for skating, and both the street action and the actual competitions are brilliantly performed and slickly lensed. That it's also funny and excels beyond Youth Culture 101 is a nice bonus.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Director Casey La Scala directs with enough energy to carry the odyssey over the next ramp, but for all the eagerness of the performances, the conviction is strictly prepackaged.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Sweet, in its meandering way. It has no meanness in it, no cynicism, no desire to be anything other than what it is, an evocation of the fun of living your life as a skateboarder.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
If you've recently watched that great skateboarding documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys," Grind will play like a soft-pedaled Afterschool Special.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Supplies stretches of actual skating footage by pros doubling for the stars. It's in these moments, freed from the earthbound pull of its market-tested components, that the movie briefly relaxes into the sheer thrilling audacity of flying into the air propelled by a board on wheels.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Buried somewhere under the gross-out jokes and the wet-lipped ogling at an endless parade of jiggling bikini-clad flesh in Grind is the kernel of a cheerful little movie about the world of competitive skateboarding.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
First-time director Casey La Scala and some talented stunt doubles squeeze in a fair amount of impressive skating footage, but the film around it will gleam the cube only of viewers with an unusually high tolerance for porta-toilet and Dutch-oven gags.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
Manages to capture enough honest moments to make it watchable, but it's never really funny enough to recommend to anyone who's outgrown short pants and kneepads.
Read Full Review >Variety Joe Leydon
A textbook example of the charm-free ephemera dumped by studios during the waning days of summer.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Amy Taubin
A logo-laden celebration of the joys of sponsorship wrapped inside an innocuous teen-pic package.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
This movie is just not cool or hip or in any way extreme. Sitting through Grind is a real grind.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Sitting through the teen skateboard comedy Grind is, well, a grind.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Eager to please, but its so lacking in real-world skate politics that it more resembles the chugging PG-13 mediocrity of Top 40 pop-punk-lite than the hard-core Black Flagisms of Peraltas scathingly real doc.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
What the problem comes down to is a group of filmmakers making misguided choices in an effort to broaden the movie's demographics beyond those who attend X Games.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
If you stay awake, you'll certainly feel more than a little ground down after watching perhaps 15 minutes of skateboard footage padded out with nearly 90 minutes of strenuously unfunny toilet humor - all cheaply filmed on a budget that looks as if it would scarcely cover the catering bill for "Gigli."
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Here's what's missing from Casey La Scala's film: Likable characters, a comprehensible script and any semblance of a good time.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
The most humorous actor in the film, Joey Kern as Sweet Lou the cradle-robbing ladies' man, gets laughs only because he's performing a note-for-note rip-off of the Matthew McConaughey character in "Dazed and Confused."
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
While doing nothing to dispel the stereotype that skateboarding is the sport of brainless jackasses, Casey La Scala's directing debut does feature some nifty boarding action.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Matt Bonesteel
A lightweight skating story/road-trip film, is apparently the best it can do, which is to say, not good at all.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter
I think the guy who exited the advance screening after less than 15 minutes said it best. "This movie's garbage," he hollered, as the audience members tittered and shuffled their feet, which they continued to do throughout this humourless, hackneyed yawnfest.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
A crass, condescending piece of corporate bamboozling, Grind plays like a movie conceived by monkey-suited honchos who regard their targeted audience as impressionable nincompoops susceptible to every new trend in sports, clothing and music that comes down the pike.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Kevin Carr
Grind is an answer to the question that has been on the minds of many this summer: Is there anything worse than Gigli? The answer to this question is a resounding YES!
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 30 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Tyler D. gave it a10:
I absolutely LOVE this movie. How could the critics be so harsh on it? It's amazing.
Shelby S gave it a10:
Dudes, This movie was awsome blossom! You have problems if you didn't like this movie! This is the awsomest movie that I watched! LAter dudes! Shelby.
jacqui r. gave it a10:
It was great..... .....mike vogel is SOOOOO HOT.
Kathy C. gave it a 10:
Awesome movie, loved the skating and loved all the celebrities in the movie. FREAKING AWESOME.
Tom W. gave it a 10:
Grind was the best freakin movie ever made us skaters feel proud.
Jack T. gave it a 10:
I can do some of those tricks but not mctwist. Good movie.
Tom H gave it a 0:
That movie sucked. I'm a skater and they made skaters look like trendy d..... bags.
