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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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MCT:May 23, 2008Great film - beautifully edited with a wonderful soundtrack. Andre Benjamin is a pretty good actor and Terrance Howard was excellent, as usual.
I thought it could have been a bit more colorful [it was Outkast & Bryan Barber for God's sake] but it stayed true to the Speakeasy era. -
MCT:May 10, 2008
Wow! The movie was great and all, except the part when the famous singer past away. It really hurt one of the members in Outkast. :(
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MCT:April 8, 2008
Escrita por el mismo Barber, Idlewild es una mezcla de Chicago (Marshall, 2002), Moulin Rouge! (Luhrman, 2001), con una historia de film-noir inmersa en el mundo de los clubs musicales negros de los 1930. La película tiene un inicio portentoso, enérgico, sumamente original: una secuencia de créditos simpática, bien fotografiada, montada y retocada en los rostros de los actores, al compás de unos estridentes ritmos jazzísticos de fondo, que nos introduce en la historia de los dos protagonistas, Percival (André Benjamin), talentoso pianista que debe trabajar en la funeraria de su padre, y Rooster (Big Boi), un gángster traficante de alcohol y cantante en un club nocturno.
1935, algún lugar del sureño Estados Unidos. Amigos entrañables desde la infancia, Percival y Rooster, son artistas exclusivos del club administrado por un capo mafioso (Ving Rhames) y el vulgar gordazo Ace (Faizon Love). Las dificultades empiezan cuando llega una talentosa y atractiva cantante Angel (Paula Patton) a trabajar al club, y Rooster deba tomar la administración del club y tenga que lidiar con el conflictivo gángster Trumpy (Terrence Howard).
Barber presume maestría dirigiendo al grupo musical Outkast, con el que ha grabado varios videoclips. Por ello, la parte musical será irreprochable, respaldada por un gran trabajo de producción, empezando por los bien montados y coreografiados números musicales, su buena dirección y su banda sonora, en la que hay de todo: desde swing, big band y jazz, hasta soul, rythm & blues moderno y nada menos que... ¡¡rap!! Pero bueno, estamos en un musical que se mueve en todo momento por los mismos terrenos musicales de Moulin Rouge! y su ecléctica banda sonora. Luego, la magnífica fotografía de estilo expresionista, la ambientación y el diseño de producción (muy en deuda con Chicago) son notables.
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MCT:March 27, 2008
Movies made as vehicles for a band or a solo artist are almost always vanity projects, but the question that remains is how good are they in spite of it all? When it comes to Idlewild, the answer is: pretty good. Looking at the film, its very clear that Big Boi (Antwan Patton) and Andre 3000 (Andre Benjamin) probably watched Prince's Under the Cherry Moon a few times growing up, all the time wishing it were them in the film. While Prince's weird Parisian tale is hampered by amateurish acting, Antwan and Andre prove to be much better actors than one might expect in this postmodern Depression Era fable. It helps of course that impressive actors like Ving Rhames, Terrence Howard and the gorgeous Paula Patton round out the cast, and it is to the credit of writer/director Bryan Barber that this film holds together in spite of it trying to be a lot of things at once. But what will make or break the film in terms of audience appreciation is the music. And for me, this is great music: it was as if I'd become privy to an alternate universe where hot jazz, Tin Pan Alley, funk, Prince and hip hop strangely coexist as if they always belonged together under the one roof. While the plot is predictable in a lot of ways, for me the film is truly a celebration of the African-American musical tradition and in this respect few films are a joyous and as successful as Idlewild.
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MCT:March 16, 2008
I would've gave this movie a lower rating if it had not been due to wanting to see certain actors in this movie. I love Outkast and everything they do and the creativity that comes from the group. I love the setting of this entire movie, but some areas could stand some tweaking and it would've been even better. It's worth a watch and I love Terrance Howard so it was pretty cool
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