Antwan 'Big Boi' Patton, Antwan Patton, Ben Vereen
Welcome to Idlewild, Georgia. Welcome to Church. Players gather nightly at the Church, with childhood friends--who grew up on opposite sides of the tracks--Rooster and Percival playing two key roles a...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 5, 2006
Stats: 1,166 reviews
If "Chicago" & "Purple Rain" had a cool baby that started dating OutKast, then, this would be it. The musical numbers are superb, the songs are catchy, the acting is great.
alot of ppl told me this movie was shit but it was alot better than expected. The overall look, style and tone of the film was very well done, I loved it. the acting by the cast was very good aswell. The story was a good one but at times just dragged. I didnt like all the music b...( read more)
Flask: Well, you know how that old saying goes, 'What goes around, comes around'!
André Benjamin: Percival
Big Boi: Rooster (as Antwan A. Patton)
Paula Patton: Angel
Terrence Howard: Trumpy
Musical set in the Prohibition-era ...( read more)
They could've done a lot more with the music (the best songs are way at the end and the best song on the disc is "Idlewild Blue" in the special features - why it wasn't in the film I have no idea), and I'd have preferred more focus on Percival than on Rooster, but it wasn't a ter...( read more)
2 of my favorite pasttimes again. Love & Music. Who knew that Sally would be Shelly? Man this was definitely an entertaining and feel good movie. What was weird was how the now worked in the "past". They definitely pushed the envelope with the music being a "technical" mis match ...( read more)
A little bit artsy fartsy for a lot of people but the only thing that could have made it better was an original soundtrack instead of some older songs.
By jumbling genres, fashions, music and locales, and riddling bullets through much of it, Idlewild ends up feeling disjointed and disquieting. full review
OutKast's much-ballyhooed Prohibition-era musical is a dense, confusing jumble of old-school and new-school, gangster and gangsta, that never pauses long enough to tell a cogent story. full review
Idlewild is so eccentric it remains compellingly watchable. full review
Between the gangsters and the showgirls, the gorgeous costumes and the wowser production numbers, Idlewild has just about everything a popular entertainment can offer. It also has a soul, and that com... full review
Sharp costuming and set design can't disguise this two-hour music video from OutKast. full review
Idlewild can't decide if it's about bullets, booze, broads or the sound of hip-hop that the film strenuously tries to marry to the 1930s. full review
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