Grade: D- | Genre: Drama Summary: A buddy summed it up best when he said, "it doesn't even make me want to go out and buy a skateboard." In 2001 skateboarding pioneer, Stacy Peralta, made an effective documentary called Dogtown and Z-Boys about youths that took a recreational sport to elevated heights never before seen until the Z-Boys. Surfers turned concrete wavers, the crew advanced a culture built on angst and rebellion, which inevitably translated into a very lucrative business. Once again, the Z-Boys are resurrected in the new film Lords of Dogtown set in 1975 on the asphalt slums of Santa Monica and Venice Beach. It's the story of 3 aimless youths with one thing in common...their desire to live life standing on a board and 4 urethane wheels.

Stacy, Jay and Tony are teens who eat drink and sleep perfect waves. When their lives' ambitions become making the Zephyr Skateboard Team, their close bonds are tested, and their future outlooks begin to change forever. At trials and competitions, they thrive on being the outcasts and general bad-asses. Their low-riding self-loving tricks are none that anyone has ever seen on 4 wheels, and the boys earn a reputation for being innovative and inspiring.

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Lords of Dogtown feels like a film my poser friends and I could have made in the sixth grade when our reverse mullets covered ours eyes and the only trick we could do on a board was a quarter inch Ollie. Set in a time when skateboard moves were still in their infancy, you're understandably unimpressed because you know how advanced and thrilling they've become today. You could easily forgive this had the story been stronger, but to our bitter dismay that we've wasted our $8.50, Dogtown requires minimal thought and effort on our part.

The cast is fine as they do their best to make the film work but is unfortunately wasted in this disappointing film. It's strongest point might just be Heath Ledger's dead on impression of Val Kilmer's John Holmes from Wonderland (thanks Mark). It's not original but still pretty damn good and a nice stretch for the Aussie.

What more can we say about a film that inspires so little of us. A buddy summed it up best when he said, "it doesn't even make me want to go out and buy a skateboard." If you're not thirteen and get around by walking, the film's title should say it all...Z-Boys stink like a dog.