SummarySet against the backdrop of a 1930s southern speakeasy, Idlewild explores the lives of Percival (Benjamin), the club's shy piano player, and Rooster (Patton), the club's showy lead performer and manager. Idlewild synthesizes drama, music, cinema and style to bring the tale of struggling singers to life. (Universal)
Directed By:Bryan Barber
Written By:Bryan Barber
Idlewild
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55
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Mixed or Average
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Idlewild is a romp, a ticket to rowdy good times.
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For all its shortcomings, Idlewild also has something that few films can pull off: Moments of such pure cinematic fabulousness, breathtaking dance sequences and idiosyncratic 3-D animation flourishes that we are more than willing to forgive it for all its sins.
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A mess, but an energetic, convivial mess.
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Idlewild is diverting enough to suggest all the unexplored avenues in movie musicals.
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Idlewild has moments of sticky sentimentality and stretches of dull exposition, but you've got to give it this: It's unpredictable.
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This oddball mix of "The Cotton Club" and "Six Feet Under" is a big, beautiful mess. But it offers the not-uninstructive spectacle of talented people stumbling over large and unwieldy ambitions.
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The most ridiculous period film since rappers took on the Old West in "Posse."
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