Girls Rock! (2008)
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68% of critics liked it
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78% of users liked it
(640 ratings)
Via their documentary Girls Rock!, co-directors Arne Johnson and Shane King transport viewers to a most unusual summer destination: Rock 'n' Roll Camp, where young women from ages 8 to 18 each spend one week learning to choose a band, play a rock instrument, and write a song. The central… More Via their documentary Girls Rock!, co-directors Arne Johnson and Shane King transport viewers to a most unusual summer destination: Rock 'n' Roll Camp, where young women from ages 8 to 18 each spend one week learning to choose a band, play a rock instrument, and write a song. The central lesson behind the week's activities involves a complete liberation from social conformity and from traditionally accepted behavioral rules and gender stereotyping. More significantly, such real-life rock legends as Sleater-Kinney and Carrie Brownstein participate in the camp, encouraging the young girls to fully accept their own individuality, eccentricities, and interpersonal differences, while they offer instruction on such areas as anger management and self-defense. The documentary -- like each week of the camp itself -- concludes with a massive rock concert, performed by the bands in front of over 700 people. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Directed By
- Arne Johnson, Shane King
- Genres
- Documentary, Musical & Performing Arts, Special Interest
PG,
- In Theaters
- Apr 21, 2007 Wide
- Studio
- Shadow Distribution
Critic Reviews
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe
How are girls supposed to behave in a culture that tells them they're Disney princesses for the first 12 years and sex toys after that? Girls Rock! has one answer: Strap on a Fender and rage against the machine.
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Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune
There's too little clarity or thoroughness in the biographies, too few prolonged scenes of the girls creating their songs.
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Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
There's so much joy and coming-of-age angst turned into nuggets of gold that it seems uncharitable to ask, what might be missing (more onscreen appreciation for rock's goddesses and gods, perhaps.)
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Desson Thomson, Washington Post
It's goooood.
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Young women find expression for more than their music in Girls Rock!, a jubilant documentary about a place where power chords and empowerment go hand in hand.
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