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70Mr. Carter's intelligent, straight-forward style and the good performances of the young actors prohibit hooting at the story's completely American approach to a German story. [11 Mar 1993]
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70A corny but sincere weeper written by Jonathan Marc Feldman, directed by Thomas Carter, and shot mainly in Prague.
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67The movie is a somber, smoothly crafted drama about a wily adolescent who senses there's something rotten going on in his country but can't quite put a finger on it.
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63Despite energetic dance sequences and appealing leads, the film falls prey to pat psychologizing and some stunningly puerile notions of history.
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60For its historical detail and recognition that teenagers were around long before James Dean sparked up a Marlboro, this film deserves some credit.
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50Yet for all its faults and limitations, Swing Kids is not necessarily easy to forget. [05 Mar 1993]
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50This senior-class Cabaret is just a TV after-school special with a better soundtrack. [05 Mar 1993]
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50Swing Kids has a multitude of problems, the most glaring of which is its loose treatment of history and the Nazis.
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50The script is all too often downright clunky though it's saved by vigorous direction (especially in the dance sequences) and performances.
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It's earnest but shallow, and condescends to the youth market it's obviously designed for. [05 Mar 1993]
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50Swing Kids looks good and moves quickly at first; later on, mired in familiar-feeling moments, it flounders
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50This well-meaning drama was made with obvious passion.
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Swing Kids really doesn't go anywhere. [05 Mar 1993]
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38It's Footloose Loose In The Third Reich and, even with your expectations kept knee-high to a kindergarten, you might have at least hoped for some finger-poppin' music and a few great dance scenes. Sorry. Here, too, things come up short. [05 Mar 1993]
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30Except for that music and a bit of the acting, Swing Kids is unsatisfactory from just about every point of view. [05 Mar 1993]
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25The screenplay is so murky, indeed, that I was never sure whether the Kids hated the Hitler Youth lads because they were Nazis, or simply because they didn't swing.
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25None of the characters has been written with any personality, and none of the actors succeeds in discovering any. [05 Mar 1993]
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25It's amazingly suspenseless and devoid of substance. [05 Mar 1993]
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20Apart from its appealing young cast and period score, it has precious little to entice audiences into movie theaters.
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10It's a moralistic muddle with only one message: If Disney wants to make movies about Germans, it should restrict its efforts to German shepherds.
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