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  • 1993
  • PG
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 1993
  • PG
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 31 m
Airborne

Summary Mitchell Goosen is sixteen/seventeen-year-old kid from California who loves to surf and roller blade. Yet his parents, who are two zoologists, were given a grant to work in Australia. The only problem was: Mitchell couldn't go with them. So, he gets sent to stay with his aunt, uncle, and cousin in Cincinnati, Ohio. When he arrives, he me...

Directed By: Rob Bowman

Written By: Bill Apablasa, Stephen McEveety

  • 1993
  • PG
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 1993
  • PG
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 31 m

Airborne

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Summary Mitchell Goosen is sixteen/seventeen-year-old kid from California who loves to surf and roller blade. Yet his parents, who are two zoologists, were given a grant to work in Australia. The only problem was: Mitchell couldn't go with them. So, he gets sent to stay with his aunt, uncle, and cousin in Cincinnati, Ohio. When he arrives, he me...

Directed By: Rob Bowman

Written By: Bill Apablasa, Stephen McEveety

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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6% Positive
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35% Mixed
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59% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
28
6% Positive
1 Review
35% Mixed
6 Reviews
59% Negative
10 Reviews

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The movie isn't up to much either, but it has a certain eccentric energy, nicely stitched to rock-and-roll songs and a music track by ex-Police drummer Stewart Copeland. And it draws you in for an agreeably empty-headed ride and thrilling skating scenes. [18 Sept 1993, p.F1]
By Peter Stack FULL REVIEW
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An amiably dopey teen movie.
By Rita Kempley FULL REVIEW
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Kids might enjoy this teenage fish-out-of-the-surf comedy , but anyone approaching the high school age of the movie's characters will spot the obvious formula within 15 minutes of opening credits.
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But the movie itself, despite a pretty funny scene early on in which Mitchell, a dyed-in-the-wool California surfer, tries to ingratiate himself to a class full of urban Cincinnati kids, is dull and conventional. Nice stunts, though. [21 Sept 1993, p.E6]
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW
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Daytime serial star Shane McDermott and "cha-ching" man Seth Green vie to create the most annoying teen screen personality this side of Pauly Shore in "Airborne," a high-velocity skating movie that remains hopelessly earthbound. [22 Sept 1993, p.E10]
By David Baron FULL REVIEW
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Fortunately, the movie is so flat and boring that any children who might be tempted to ape its stunts will probably not sit still long enough to see them.
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10
In the climactic team rollerblade race down the "devil's backbone," this Warner Bros. throwaway tries to combine "Rollerball" and "Breaking Away" for a wow finish that will leave audiences awestruck and cheering. Skaters crash into fences, hit their heads on spittoons, smash genitals-first into trees, jump over cars, slide under semis and battle each other. But this absurdly contrived hokum, poorly shot and edited, is the final insult in what is overall a new low for teen-targeted, big-screen pulp. [20 Sept 1993]
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Production Company Icon Entertainment International, Icon Productions
Release Date Sep 17, 1993
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating PG
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Tagline The World's Only Rock 'N' Rollerblade Movie.
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